[SOLVED] Help! I cannot bear Win 8.1 - Installing LL 2.2 on Lenovo U530?

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@rokytnji,

Thanks for helping out rokytnji.  I don't know any more than you do on this.  Doesn't appear that Broadcom is supported with Linux drivers and I don't know any way around that.


@amandasabroad,

As rokytnji pointed out your output (in red below)

02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4352 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter [14e4:43b1] (rev 03)

when looked-up on the chart here:  http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Driv...nt_drivers

shows that the card is not supported by any Linux drivers right now.


Unfortunately, you're probably going to have to use a USB wifi dongle with Linux on the computer.  Maybe at some later point in time your card will have a Linux driver built for it, but that doesn't appear to be the case as of now.

Don't know what you want to do at this point.  If you don't have access to an ethernet connection, you can still go ahead with install, but you won't be able to convert the installation to UEFI mode.  It will install and work as long as UEFI boot mode is off, but that means you will have to change boot modes every time you switch from Windows to Linux, or vice versa.  In UEFI mode you will only be able to boot Windows.  In Legacy/CSM mode it will only boot LL.  That's referred to as a "mixed mode" install and people normally don't want that because of the hassle of changing modes back and forth all of the time.

I don't know if this is an option for you or not, but maybe you could return the computer and get one that has a Linux compatible wireless card.  Something to think about before you try installing.  (If you do that, expand the shrunken Windows partition back to original size first.  If they see that you changed something on the drive they might use that as an excuse not to accept the return.)