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

[rokytnji]

Time to break out the big guns

http://www.googlinux.com/
http://www.googlubuntu.com/

Lets see what this scooter tramp comes up with?

Aha. Learned a new Linux Lite trick

Code:

harry@biker1:~$ sudo apt search broadcom
[sudo] password for harry:
Sorting... Done
Full Text Search... Done
b43-fwcutter/trusty,now 1:018-2 i386 [installed]
  utility for extracting Broadcom 43xx firmware

bcmwl-kernel-source/trusty 6.30.223.141+bdcom-0ubuntu2 i386
  Broadcom 802.11 Linux STA wireless driver source

brcm-patchram-plus-nexus7/trusty 0.1.1 i386
  Firmware patching utility for Broadcom hybrid chipsets

broadcom-sta-common/trusty 6.30.223.141-1 all
  Common files for the Broadcom STA Wireless driver

broadcom-sta-dkms/trusty 6.30.223.141-1 all
  dkms source for the Broadcom STA Wireless driver

broadcom-sta-source/trusty 6.30.223.141-1 all
  Source for the Broadcom STA Wireless driver

firmware-b43-installer/trusty,now 1:018-2 all [installed]
  firmware installer for the b43 driver

firmware-b43legacy-installer/trusty 1:018-2 all
  firmware installer for the b43legacy driver

firmware-crystalhd/trusty 0.0~git20120110.fdd2f19-1 all
  Crystal HD Video Decoder (firmware)

gstreamer1.0-crystalhd/trusty 1:0.0~git20110715.fdd2f19-9ubuntu1 i386
  Crystal HD Video Decoder (GStreamer plugin)

libcrystalhd-dev/trusty 1:0.0~git20110715.fdd2f19-9ubuntu1 i386
  Crystal HD Video Decoder (development files)

libcrystalhd3/trusty,now 1:0.0~git20110715.fdd2f19-9ubuntu1 i386 [installed,automatic]
  Crystal HD Video Decoder (shared library)

Has me poking around

https://wikidevi.com/wiki/AzureWave_AW-CE123H

Broadcom was supposed to become Linux friendly so I bet there is a proprietary blob of firmware and driver supplied
by Broadcom industries itself. Kinda like a Nvidia proprietary driver install I am guessing.

Here is a Ubuntu solved thread using the wl driver dated May 2014

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2224759

Lets keep poking

5 days ago

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2259163

So with the search links I provided in this post and seeing how this is actually doable.
Don't give up the ship yet.

Here is a Hoop

http://www.broadcom.com/products/Wireles...ns/BCM4352
http://www.broadcom.com/press/resource_center.php
http://websearch.broadcom.com/search?q=4...earch.y=13