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Hardware - Support => Network => Topic started by: Rednib on November 10, 2020, 09:38:04 AM

Title: Wifi Broadcom BCM43162
Post by: Rednib on November 10, 2020, 09:38:04 AM

Hello, i have a Lenovo Yoga 500 Laptop with a Broadcom Wireless Network Adapter BCM43162 and i have a hard time getting it to work on Linux Lite 5.2. It does not reqognize the adapter, only ethernet cable works. Ive tried to install the b43 driver from the synaptic package manager but this did not work.
Can anyone help me?

Title: Re: Wifi Broadcom BCM43162
Post by: Jerry on November 11, 2020, 06:15:11 AM

It's not supported in the kernel and there are no drivers for it. Your best path is via ndiswrapper.

1. Open a Terminal do:

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sudo apt-get install ndiswrapper
2. Download

Windows Driver - https://driverslab.ru/download/wifi/only_driver_wifi_broadcom_win10_7_35_317_3.zip (https://driverslab.ru/download/wifi/only_driver_wifi_broadcom_win10_7_35_317_3.zip)

3.

Right click zip file, Extract here.

4.

Click into extracted folder, then the 64 folder.

5.

Open a Terminal (right click Open Terminal here), in the 64 folder and do:

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sudo ndiswrapper -i bcmwl63.inf
Reboot. If still not there, then you're unfortunately out of options for this poorly supported chipset.