- Tried to turn on the Bluetooth Collaboration in the Broadcom Adapter driver in Device Manager but did not find the settings of Bluetooth Collaboration at all there. This indicates that you are using a generic Windows BT driver, because Windows thinks that it has a better driver than the Apple-provided Broadcom BC driver.
- Here’s what I get when running lspci -k: 03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Inc. And subsidiaries BCM4360 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter (rev 03) `Subsystem: Apple Inc. Device 0117` `Kernel driver in use: wl`.
This package contains the files needed for installing the Broadcom Wireless 802.11b/g Adapter driver. If it has been installed, updating (overwrite-installing) may fix problems, add new functions, or expand existing ones.
Getting proprietary WiFi drivers to work in GNU/Linux distros can be a pain sometimes. This time we’re going to deal with such a proprietary driver for the Broadcom BCM43142 WiFi device. Let’s take a look at how to install WiFi driver for Broadcom BCM43142 WiFi device in popular GNU/Linux distros such as Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora and Arch Linux. First of all let’s make sure we’re having the Broadcom BCM43142 WiFi device. For that let’s make use of the lspci command as follows:
If you are having the Broadcom BCM43142 WiFi device then you will get an output somewhat like follows:
If you get the above output then we are good to continue.
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How to install WiFi driver for Broadcom BCM43142 in Debian and Debian-based distros like Ubuntu
The advantage of using a dkms driver is that you don’t need to manually update the driver everytime you upgrade your kernel!
Dynamic Kernel Module Support (DKMS) is a program/framework that enables generating Linux kernel modules whose sources generally reside outside the kernel source tree. The concept is to have DKMS modules automatically rebuilt when a new kernel is installed.
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