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Last week I installed Lubuntu 18.10 on a Dell D630 on a new hard drive. I previously had been using Lubuntu17.04 on this machine, but the hard drive quit working

The Wifi card (Dell 1390--BCM4311) didn’t work when I first installed 17.04. I looked around on the Internet and found information that told me to remove the STA driver and replace it using

sudo apt-get install --reinstall b43-fwcutter sudo apt-get install --reinstall bw43-fwcutter firmware-b43-installer

This worked fine in 17.04. I decided to try it for 18.10.

sudo apt-get install --reinstall b43-fwcutter [This seemed to work without problems.] sudo apt-get install --reinstall bw43-fwcutter firmware-b43-installer

[Linux response]

Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package bw43-fwcutter

I tried the following

sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer

[Linux response]

E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable) E: Unable to acquire the dpkg frontend lock (/var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend), is another process using it?

I then tried:

sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get --reinstall install bcmwl-kernel-source [This appeared to run to a successful completion—no errors or problems came up.]

The instructions I was following then said to enter

sudo modprobe -r b43 ssb wl brcmfmac brcmsmac bcma

This gave an an error message "module ssb in use". I tried rebooting, but the wireless card didn't become operational. Interestingly, some icons on the task bar disappeared.

I removed the bcmwl-kernel-source and rebooted—the icons on the task bar reappeared.

So what next? It looks like the 18.10 repositories don't contain what the 17.04 repositories contained.