[SOLVED] WIFI adapter in very old laptop not working It worked in earlyer version of Kubuntu

[steve7233]

$ lshw -C network
WARNING: you should run this program as super-us
er.
*-network
description: Network controller
product: BCM4322 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless L
AN Controller
vendor: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
version: 01
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=b43-pci-bridge late
ncy=0
resources: irq:16 memory:d9500000-d9503ff
f
*-network

Any ideas. Need more information? Tell me what commands to run in the terminal, and I will.

[die.boer]

Please run these commands and post the output:

lspci -nnk | grep -A3 -i network

rfkill list

nmcli device status

sudo dmesg | grep -iE 'b43|firmware|brcm|wifi'

[steve7233]

Google AI already helped me solve it. One of the few times an AI managed to find the solution on the first try. It just didn't have the correct firmware. I guess Aptud doesn't do well with very old laptops; 2009 is a ways back. Apparently, old Broadcom systems use 1 of two drivers, and the Linux kernel often gets the firmware confused, so you wind up with a borked Broadcom, but Google AI knew how to determine the proper firmware and had me do a purge and proper install, and all of a sudden about 30 Wi-Fi networks appeared, including my new T-Mobile Satellite gateway.