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Ubuntu Wireless Driver reinstall

Ubuntu Wireless Driver reinstall

My Wireless driver is deactivated and I had it before. I know that it's there, it just won't show. Ubuntu in it's full-gloried-smartness wants to download the wireless driver. (FYI, my LAN port is broken, snapped pins. )

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Guest [Entry]

"In the end, I used (I can't remember if sudo was required or not.)

(sudo) modprobe wl

to force the kernel to load the old driver, since it was there all along. Then, as stated above, the ""missing"" driver was reinstalled over the network. Weird."