[ale] Getting Wireless to work in Yoga 3 Pro

[Sergio Chaves]

I had the exact same issue on a HP laptop and could not make it work.
Popped the Fedora 20 DVD in, downloaded Broadcom RPM,  done :-)
Life is good.
On Nov 25, 2014 8:11 AM, "Jim Kinney" <jkinney at jimkinney.us> wrote:

> Sounds like the broadcom module didn't load. It may need a tweak in dbus
> conf files. Or dconf. Haven't finished coffee yet.
>
> On November 24, 2014 4:45:24 PM EST, Marc Ferguson <marcferguson at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hiya folks,
>>
>> I'm super excited about my newly acquired Lenovo Yoga 3 Pro. I quickly
>> dual-booted it with Ubuntu 14.10 and ran into the issue of the wireless
>> adapter not working. Luckily there was an option in the "System update" for
>> "Additional drivers." Sweet! I used the Broadcom drivers provided,
>> connected to my wireless router and proceeded with the full install.
>>
>> Once I rebooted I'm unable to use those same drivers nor do I understand
>> how to make the drivers work. I did some searching and right now mos t of
>> the Internet is providing fixes for the Yoga 2.
>>
>> One of the solutions presented is to remove the "ideapad_laptop" (rmmod
>> ideapad_laptop) module and then restart network-manager. Unfortunately that
>> didn't work. Can someone point in the right direction of how to understand
>> wireless modules?
>>
>> I just purchased a USB ethernet adapter so I can at least grab some
>> updates and header files. If I understand correctly I might end up
>> compiling the drivers from Lenovo's site. Thanks.
>>
>> Broadcom Corporation BCM4352 802.11ac Wire less Network Adapter
>> [14e4:43b1] (rev 3)
>>
>> --
>> *Marc Ferguson*
>>
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>>
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