I recently installed a Broadcom Wi-Fi card in my laptop. There are now 2 Wi-Fi mini PCI cards in the laptop.
The Intel Wi-Fi card works fine (always has). After installing the Broadcom card, I ran Additional Drivers and installed the proprietary drivers for it,but on rebooting both Wi-Fi cards are disabled.
I have also tried running:
sudo apt remove broadcom-sta-dkms bcmwl-kernel-source
and then reinstalling the Broadcom drivers.
Currently I have removed the Broadcom drivers and rebooted. Now the Intel card works OK.
sudo lshw -c network[sudo] password for admn: *-network description: Ethernet interface product: 82567LM Gigabit Network Connection vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 19 bus info: pci@0000:00:19.0 logical name: enp0s25 version: 03 serial: 00:22:68:0e:96:bd capacity: 1Gbit/s width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm msi bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt-fd autonegotiation configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=e1000e driverversion=3.2.6-k firmware=1.8-3 latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=twisted pair resources: irq:29 memory:fc200000-fc21ffff memory:fc225000-fc225fff ioport:1840(size=32) *-network description: Network controller product: BCM4311 802.11a/b/g vendor: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0 version: 02 width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list configuration: driver=b43-pci-bridge latency=0 resources: irq:16 memory:f4200000-f4203fff *-network description: Wireless interface product: PRO/Wireless 5100 AGN [Shiloh] Network Connection vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0 logical name: wlp3s0 version: 00 serial: 00:22:fa:dc:83:ea width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless configuration: broadcast=yes driver=iwlwifi driverversion=5.3.0-46-generic firmware=8.83.5.1 build 33692 ip=192.168.1.13 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11 resources: irq:32 memory:f4300000-f4301fff
$ lsmodModule Size Used byccm 20480 3snd_hda_codec_hdmi 61440 1snd_hda_codec_conexant 28672 1snd_hda_codec_generic 81920 1 snd_hda_codec_conexantsnd_hda_intel 49152 3snd_intel_nhlt 20480 1 snd_hda_intelsnd_hda_codec 131072 4 snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_codec_conexant,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intelthinkpad_acpi 106496 0snd_hda_core 90112 5 snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_codec_conexant,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codecnvram 16384 1 thinkpad_acpisnd_hwdep 20480 1 snd_hda_codeci915 1949696 17ledtrig_audio 16384 3 snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_codec_conexant,thinkpad_acpicoretemp 20480 0snd_pcm 106496 4 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_coreradeon 1478656 1ttm 106496 1 radeonsnd_seq_midi 20480 0iwldvm 241664 0joydev 28672 0input_leds 16384 0serio_raw 20480 0drm_kms_helper 184320 2 radeon,i915snd_seq_midi_event 16384 1 snd_seq_midib43 417792 0snd_rawmidi 36864 1 snd_seq_midiwmi_bmof 16384 0snd_seq 69632 2 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_eventdrm 491520 13 drm_kms_helper,radeon,i915,ttmpcmcia 65536 0cordic 16384 1 b43bcma 65536 1 b43i2c_algo_bit 16384 2 radeon,i915fb_sys_fops 16384 1 drm_kms_helpersnd_seq_device 16384 3 snd_seq,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidimac80211 851968 2 iwldvm,b43syscopyarea 16384 1 drm_kms_helperiwlwifi 348160 1 iwldvmyenta_socket 49152 0mei_me 40960 0sysfillrect 16384 1 drm_kms_helperpcmcia_rsrc 24576 1 yenta_socketsysimgblt 16384 1 drm_kms_helperpcmcia_core 28672 3 pcmcia,pcmcia_rsrc,yenta_socketlibarc4 16384 1 mac80211snd_timer 36864 2 snd_seq,snd_pcmcfg80211 712704 4 iwldvm,b43,iwlwifi,mac80211mei 110592 1 mei_mesnd 90112 18 snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_seq,snd_hda_codec_conexant,snd_seq_device,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hwdep,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_timer,thinkpad_acpi,snd_pcm,snd_rawmidisoundcore 16384 1 sndmac_hid 16384 0kvm_intel 278528 0kvm 659456 1 kvm_intelirqbypass 16384 1 kvmbinfmt_misc 24576 1sch_fq_codel 20480 6parport_pc 40960 0ppdev 24576 0lp 20480 0parport 53248 3 parport_pc,lp,ppdevip_tables 32768 0x_tables 40960 1 ip_tablesautofs4 45056 2ssb_hcd 16384 0ahci 40960 2firewire_ohci 40960 0firewire_core 65536 1 firewire_ohcicrc_itu_t 16384 1 firewire_corepsmouse 155648 0i2c_i801 32768 0libahci 32768 1 ahcilpc_ich 24576 0ssb 73728 2 b43,ssb_hcde1000e 258048 0wmi 32768 1 wmi_bmofvideo 49152 2 thinkpad_acpi,i915