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    WiFi with acer aspire laptop

    Many thanks f33*.Had to get a propriety connector to enablet ethernet,but with your 2 suggestions enacted it now works fine on wifi.
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    WiFi with acer aspire laptop

    Seems the problem is the laptop doesnt want to load the relevent driver.Will try an ethernet connect when I can get hold of a connection converter. xxxx@xxxx-Aspire-V5-571PG:~$ dmesg | grep bcma [ 0.751842] bcma-pci-bridge 0000:04:00.0: bus0: Found chip with id 43228, rev 0x00 and package...
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    WiFi with acer aspire laptop

    Thx for the interest.To answer your question - only ethernet is offered as an option in the network manager applet.Here is what i hope is the section of th lspci txt file you asked for.If it is not the relevent bit I will attach the whole file. cheers 04:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Inc...
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    WiFi with acer aspire laptop

    xxxx@xxxx-Aspire-V5-571PG:~$ lspci -nn | grep -i net 03:00.2 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller [10ec:8168] (rev 0a) 04:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries BCM43228 802.11a/b/g/n...
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    WiFi with acer aspire laptop

    Laptop was running fine with ubuntu 18.04.Have just done a clean install with linux 20.04.Alas, no wifi. Tells me I need a wifi adapter.Just strange that it wasnt necessary with 18.04.WiFi worked ok.I note another post where someone with an acer aspire laptop found it necessary to get a "Realtek...
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