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Update for Ubuntu 16
please update if possible if any steps needs to be changed for ubuntu 16.
For Ubuntu 16.04 modify this:
./hex2hcd BCM20702A1_001.002.014.1443.1572.hex BCM20702A0-0489-e07a.hcd
to
./hex2hcd BCM20702A1_001.002.014.1443.1572.hex BCM20702A1-0489-e07a.hcd
Wifi on 16.04
So I upgraded to (Kubuntu) 16.04 and after the reboot the wifi stopped working.
Because I tried a few different things, the solution is not entirely clear to me, but I think you need only sudo apt-get install --reinstall bcmwl-kernel-source (the reinstall part is important), which will ask you to go into BIOS and disable secure boot.
It also gave a single line of modprobe error message, not able to insert wl, but that didn't seem to matter?
After doing the reinstall and disabling secure boot I had wifi again.
Would be great if someone could confirm if those two steps works for them.
Wifi was working for me after an update to 16.04, but only after following these steps. However after the latest apt-get dist-upgrade all I can see now is "HP-Print-B6-Officejet 6700" which is not something I've ever connected to and isn't actually a network in the area - in fact it's followed me to an entirely different city. I'll try some of the suggestions above as well and see if that helps.
Hmm, a second restart actually seemed to fix the wifi...weird. And actually now that I think about it what might have gotten wifi working after updating to 16.04 was disabling secure boot. Sorry, I guess that doesn't really help confirm or deny anything.
I have occasionally experienced the list of wireless networks being empty (when it shouldn't be).
Both rebooting and sudo service network-manager restart fixed that issue (for a while) and let me connect to a WiFi again.
Since I have been mostly using a wired connection lately I can't really say how often this error occurs. Seems quite infrequent.
@mathiasose this is a Ubuntu/NetworkManager issue - please report it there.
Just did a clean install of (Kubuntu) 16.10 and wifi worked out of the box :smile:
(As mentioned I had already disabled secure boot when installing 16.04, that might still be something that is required)