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Posted May 04, 2016
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jpilot: Are you trying to connect to the internet via wireless LAN or wired LAN? Either way, do you know what network hardware the laptop contains? While pretty much all wired ethernet network devices work in Linux, there are a few wireless devices that have no native drivers. Sometimes it is possible to use windows driver with such devices through a NDIS wrapper, which is a tool to make some wifi windows drivers work in Linux.
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snowkatt: wireless
and all i can find out about it is that its a broadcom which is about as helpfull as a soap saw
You might have some luck with compat-wireless or maaaaybe the b43 drivers. I know that the last time I managed to get a Broadcom device connected to the net I had to jump through quite a few hoops.

I have a TP-LINK card and it might be easier to just get one of those rather than try to mess with Broadcom...
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