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

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Alrighty, on the LL installed on the HDD, booted into with Legacy mode, and installed updates/boot-repair

Seems like boot-repair doesn't wanna play ball unless I'm already in EFI mode. Not sure how to proceed just yet. Should I try to go ahead as if there were no error, re-enable EFI in the BIOS, and see if both OS's show up?

Booting into legacy went smoothly at least

Alright -- that's the only thing I was afraid might happen with that method of trying to convert.  Oh, well -- at least I/we know for sure that won't work.

You'll need to follow directions for conversion shown on this Youtube video (which should work):  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOmZXxXPwBU

I only started looking at it after reading this (someone with my exact card 43b1 finding a solution):
http://ubuntu.aspcode.net/view/635400140...re-m17x-r5

Think it's worth a shot on my machine?

That article does appear to say that the driver installed by the "Install Drivers" program will work.  It can't hurt to give that a shot and see what happens.  Go ahead and run commands suggested by altman in post #29, which installs the same driver as "Install Drivers" from the Menu.

I would try this in Terminal , wonder if you have bcmwl-kernel-source installed ;

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install bcmwl-kernel-source

If that driver works, then all should be fine on reboot and that also means the chart we've been basing things on is not up to date because it lists your card as unsupported.