Re: Need help to get wifi connection ... SOLVED

Thanks Stephen. That solved the problem.

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On Thu, January 10, 2019 9:45 am, Stephen Partington wrote:
> This thread seems to cover your situation.
> https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2255644
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 9:32 AM Joe Lowder <joe@actionline.com> wrote:
>
>
>> I finally got Linux Mint 18.1 installed on a
>> Thinkpad T430u (it should not be this hard)
>> but now I cannot get wifi connected.
>>
>> Todd gave me some good tips, and I've searched
>> the 'net and found more tips, but still stuck.
>>
>> From https://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/796
>> I got this much:
>>
>>
>> command: lspci -vnn | grep 1434
>>
>>
>> result:
>> 03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM43228
>> 802.11a/b/g/n [14e4:4359]
>> Subsystem: Broadcom Corporation BCM43228 802.11a/b/g/n [14e4:0607]
>>
>>
>> I was then advised to check the driver support table at
>> linuxwireless.org (which is a non-existent website.
>>
>> The "tip" said: "Once you confirm that your WLAN device is
>> supported, install the driver by running this command":
>>
>> sudo apt-get install firmware-b43installer
>>
>> Tried that and the result indicated that the driver was
>> installed ....... but now what?
>>
>> How can I get this wifi connection to work?
>>
>>
>>
>>
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