How to install broadcom wireless driver on xps 9343. For wireless adapters, however, you can install a compatibility layer called ndiswrapper which lets you use some windows wireless drivers on linux. See also the comprehensive explanations of commands for troubleshooting your wireless. Some xps 9343 notebook users are reporting that wireless functionality isnt operational after installing ubuntu 15. First, find out the network adapter in your system. In general, you cannot use a device driver designed for one operating system like windows on another operating system like linux. To install the driver, excute sudo aptget nvidia375 nvidiamodprobe, and then reboot the machine. This article provides the information on how to install broadcom wireless driver on xps 9343 from ubuntu 15. Your device may be supported in ubuntu with a native driver. You can refer to this article to find out the make of wireless network adapter in linux. Wifidocswirelesstroubleshootingguidedrivers ubuntu. We rely on advertising to help fund our awardwinning journalism. In ubuntu systems, drivers for nvidia graphics cards are already provided in the official repository.
Right now i do not have the installation disk nor access to ethernet so the below post did not work for me. Power problems troubleshoot problems with power and batteries. If your wireless adapter was not recognized, it might not be working properly or the correct drivers may not be installed for it. Today june 21 when i went to turn on my computer i received this error. Fix no wifi issue in ubuntu based linux distributions.
Special thanks to chili555 who helped in the ubuntu forums and on this site with many questions related to wireless devices and to others who have contributed through email, chats, irc and more in testing various drivers with several of the most popular broadcom wireless cards huge thanks to chili555 really. In fact, you can just check in software sources if there are any additional drivers available for your system or not. This is because they have different ways of handling devices. When update manager installs a later kernel version, also known as linuximage, after the required reboot, then recompile. Linuxubuntu wireless adapter for desktop ask ubuntu. First you should check if a driver automatically loaded.