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How to install Broadcom wireless drivers offline?

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Clash Royale CLAN TAG #URR8PPP up vote 29 down vote favorite 18 I have installed Ubuntu alongside Windows 8.1. But the wifi is not working in Ubuntu (perhaps the drivers are not present), which worked fine in windows. Also I cant connect with Ethernet since my laptop does not have an Ethernet port. So is there any way for me to connect to the internet in ubuntu? Edit: Output of the terminal command lspci -knn | grep Net -A2 : vikram@vikram-Inspiron-11-3148:~$ lspci -knn | grep Net -A2 01:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM43142 802.11b/g/n [14e4:4365] (rev 01) Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0018] Kernel driver in use: bcma-pci-bridge vikram@vikram-Inspiron-11-3148:~$ I did what Pilot6 suggested. Here is the output: vikram@vikram-Inspiron-11-3148:~$ sudo dpkg -i *.deb [sudo] password for vikram: Selecting previously unselected package bcmwl-kernel-source. (Reading database ... 163804 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack bcmwl-...

Icons disappeared but Ubuntu is correct

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Clash Royale CLAN TAG #URR8PPP up vote 0 down vote favorite When I open now my Ubuntu 16.04 with my username the desktop has no icons at the Left edge, no icons at all. When I open with a host user there are no icons. The only file I can see on the desktop is a PDF file. What to do? Finally I opened the terminal and did type sudo apt update,. uprade. The result is that the last Ubuntu 16.04 is updated, all i right but nothing is repaired. I tried also to open th PC with secure method. Nothing helped. Possible causes of the bug: - Several times I shuted down with the on/off button because the standard way didn't finish. - Recently updates - I was on Ubuntu 17.04 and I tried to start with previous version. With terminal I had checked that 16.04 is up to date. icons users .desktop share | improve this question edited Mar 16 at 13:34 asked Mar 9 at 6:50 kouty 117 8 In fine, the only solution I was able to reach was to ins...