Linux not playing with some wireless chipsets...
I Discovered my wifi dongle isn't supported by ubuntu 16,04. It was a broadcom 43231 that was ever so marginal in the generic driver support. My other Atheros chipset wifi dongle would light up like a champ ... I had to install a windows driver emulator (ndiswrapper) and install the windows driver via gtk GUI..
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/Ndiswrapper
synergy513, this would be great to add to the Linux 'How To' section below!
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/f/100/linux-how-to-and-tutorial-section/
While the issue doesn't arise as much as it once did, when does, seems that a few will ask over the course of 3-4 months. Most are pulling old notebooks out of closets or wherever stashed & installing some Ubuntu type distro, only to discover that their now ancient Broadcom wireless doesn't work. Not because it never did, rather Ubuntu & it's variants no longer includes the drivers in the ISO. Don't know why not, as many other components of those years are supported.
Most are also 32 bit hardware, which are standing on it's last leg of Ubuntu support, there'll be no 32 bit Ubuntu 18.04, so three more years of 16.04 & other than Puppy releases, the wait is over. Some thought that there's be no 16.04 support, with reluctance, Canonical released their last 32 bit LTS distro. I fully expect Windows to follow suit at some point, probably within the next year or so. Maybe they all were waiting to see who would flinch first, it's now official!
https://itsfoss.com/ubuntu-drops-32-bit-desktop/
Still would be a good add in that section, some will run Ubuntu 16.04, which includes variants such as Mint 18, until EOL & beyond. Some Linux users have ran unsupported distros, as long as current browsers could be installed, 14.04 & Mint 17.3 has just over a year before EOL, many won't let go easily.
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