Active Broadcom wifi on startup

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Using this answer Installing Broadcom Wireless Drivers I was able to get my Broadcom 4311 working in 16.04. However, I have to open the terminal and enter "sudo modprobe b43" every time I restart or it doesn't find any wifi sources. Where could I put this line to make it automatically run on startup?

Thanks in advance for helping a newbie.

Please [edit] your question and add output of `grep b43 /etc/modprobe.d/*` terminal command. — Pilot6, Feb 23 '17 at 21:53

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 23 '17 at 21:55

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Please try:

sudo rm /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-bcm43.conf

Reboot and tell us if the wireless is working.

answered Feb 23 '17 at 21:55

chili555

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This is wierd. If `wl` is installed, the Wi-Fi should not work because `wl` is bind to it. If it is not, the file should not be there. – Pilot6 Feb 23 '17 at 21:56
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Sometimes people uninstall when they should purge. I took an educated guess! – chili555 Feb 23 '17 at 22:31
This worked! Thanks! I also updated and it still worked. Much appreciated. – cfken53 Feb 27 '17 at 23:27

Active Broadcom wifi on startup

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