I'm using ubuntu installed on a USB with persistence on a spare W10 laptop I have. I'd like to keep ubuntu on the USB until I figure out if I want to convert the machine over.
I've tried finding information about this but everything I find either causes my installation to become damaged/unbootable or does nothing at all for the wireless card. I'm able to connect via my Ethernet port, but I'd really like this to work over wireless.
The last thing I did was rebuild my USB (for the nth time), then I tried what was listed in this:
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2214110
lspci -nn -d 14e4:
Mine came back as 4359, so I then did this:
sudo apt-get purge bcmwl-kernel-source
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install bcmwl-kernel-source
This gave me this result:
I don't know if those last 2 lines are a problem or not.
After that, I rebooted.
Still no wifi adapter found.
I do see this in the additional driver section:
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If I change that to "Do not use the device", then click "Apply Changes", it corrupts the usb and it won't boot from it any longer, then I have to start over and rebuild it.
I'm using the following to build the USB:
iso from ubuntu.com directly for 18.04.2 LTS
unetbootin-windows-661 - create the bootable usb using the above iso
PDL-Casper-RW-Creator - create the casper-rw file for persistence
Then I edit the following files as needed to use the Try Ubuntu without installing option and making it persistent:
F:\boot\grub\grub.cfg
F:\isolinux\txt.cfg
F:\syslinux.cfg
I've tried finding information about this but everything I find either causes my installation to become damaged/unbootable or does nothing at all for the wireless card. I'm able to connect via my Ethernet port, but I'd really like this to work over wireless.
The last thing I did was rebuild my USB (for the nth time), then I tried what was listed in this:
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2214110
Quote:
lspci -nn -d 14e4:
Quote:
sudo apt-get purge bcmwl-kernel-source
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install bcmwl-kernel-source
Code:
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install bcmwl-kernel-source
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
bcmwl-kernel-source
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 113 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/1550 kB of archives.
After this operation, 8067 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 cdrom://Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS _Bionic Beaver_ - Release amd64 (20190210) bionic/restricted amd64 bcmwl-kernel-source amd64 6.30.223.271+bdcom-0ubuntu4 [1550 kB]
Selecting previously unselected package bcmwl-kernel-source.
(Reading database ... 148588 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../bcmwl-kernel-source_6.30.223.271+bdcom-0ubuntu4_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking bcmwl-kernel-source (6.30.223.271+bdcom-0ubuntu4) ...
Setting up bcmwl-kernel-source (6.30.223.271+bdcom-0ubuntu4) ...
Loading new bcmwl-6.30.223.271+bdcom DKMS files...
Building for 4.18.0-15-generic
Building for architecture x86_64
Building initial module for 4.18.0-15-generic
Done.
wl:
Running module version sanity check.
- Original module
- No original module exists within this kernel
- Installation
- Installing to /lib/modules/4.18.0-15-generic/updates/dkms/
depmod....
DKMS: install completed.
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.130ubuntu3.6) ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.18.0-15-generic
cryptsetup: WARNING: failed to detect canonical device of overlay
cryptsetup: WARNING: could not determine root device from /etc/fstabAfter that, I rebooted.
Still no wifi adapter found.
I do see this in the additional driver section:
If I change that to "Do not use the device", then click "Apply Changes", it corrupts the usb and it won't boot from it any longer, then I have to start over and rebuild it.
I'm using the following to build the USB:
iso from ubuntu.com directly for 18.04.2 LTS
unetbootin-windows-661 - create the bootable usb using the above iso
PDL-Casper-RW-Creator - create the casper-rw file for persistence
Then I edit the following files as needed to use the Try Ubuntu without installing option and making it persistent:
F:\boot\grub\grub.cfg
F:\isolinux\txt.cfg
F:\syslinux.cfg