Hey Ubuntu Family,

So I've recently just made made the switch from Windows 10 to Kubuntu 16.04.02 LTS. For clarity, I'm an adolescent linux user - fresh and new to linux.

The issues is that I do not seem to have the wifi icon, rather just an airplane mode icon. Thus, I can't even scan for wifi.

I am using a Dell XPS 13 laptop with Intel Broadwell Core i5-5200U CPU, 4GB RAM, 256GB SSD. I am not able to access the internet on my system - obv. due to no wifi, and my laptop does not have an Ethernet port.

Through the Konsole command: lspci -vvnn | grep -A 9 Network
I found that I am using a Broadcom Corporation BCM4352 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter
My PCI-ID is 14e4:43b1
The Kernel driver in use: bcma-pci-bridge
The current Kernel I am using is 4.8.0-36-generic

I would genuinely appreciate any help I can get to resolve this issue and get my beloved Wifi working again.

2. I saw a post somewhere, which I now am unable to find saying that if i could get the b43-fwcutter-installer downloaded elsewhere and working on my laptop, it would update/manage the drivers for me and allow my wifi to work, however i don't fully understand firstly if this will work, and secondly how to do it. - The post also mentioned getting the STA ones but stated they were terrible, but beats nothing.

3. Also as a side note i'd like to know if this issue would be a problem on all distros, since it's the driver installer missing from the repositories - due to them not being openly available by broadcom or something similar was mentioned on the b43 post. Or if it's just Kubuntu/my laptop(since it's my wireless adapter issue).

Thank you

I'm not sure, but would this article be of any benefit to me? wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Dell_XPS_13_9343

hello, welcome, thank you for a well-formatted post. so much easier to read.

anyhow, please provide some additional info, as requested here.

Found another solution through posting in Ubuntu Forums as well. Hope this helps other people too; ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2360333&page=2. [Good ol' mobile tethering!]

However, still a slight problem, it shows all the connections, but once I put in all the info (username, password, security settings, etc.) it says 'for accessing the WiFi network you need to provide a password' and two little popups come up saying wifi deactivated and no secrets were provided. I tried my WiFi password again here which i know to be 100% correct and checked thoroughly, but it still doesn't work.

Am I missing something really simple or is there another issue?

Thanks again

have you tried your user password?

it might also ask you to create a new keyring, or unlock an existing one.
i am not using this, but i think it is possible to provide a password different from your user password there.

anyhow, the user password it is i guess.

hey, yes i thought it might be that too but i tried that plenty of times. I think it doesn't care that i put in the right password or not, it just keeps coming up and not connecting.