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    Smile Trying to get my wifi working......

    So I have 13.10 installed on a partition of my iMac. The wifi isn't working. While troubleshooting I keep getting this message:

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


    Anyone have any idea why this is happening?

    I am very new to Linux and Ubuntu.

    Any help would be amazing!

    Thank you!

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    Re: Trying to get my wifi working......

    Hi there and welcome to Ubuntu and Linux!

    I'm not an expert when it comes to Apple hardware, but I think your iMac will likely be using a Broadcom wireless chip. In that case, you can go to the utility Ubuntu has to install that driver from internet by going to Software Sources > Additional Drivers tab. You need internet connection to do this. If the driver is in the repositories, it will show it to you and you can select it to fetch and install automatically.

    Best of Luck!

    EDIT: What were you doing when you got the output you showed to us?
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    Re: Trying to get my wifi working......

    if you are installing updates or applications wait for it to finsh
    if you are not installing updates/apps run this:
    Code:
    sudo rm /var/lib/dpkg/lock
    then continue doing what you were doing
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    Re: Trying to get my wifi working......

    Quote Originally Posted by silex89 View Post
    Hi there and welcome to Ubuntu and Linux!

    I'm not an expert when it comes to Apple hardware, but I think your iMac will likely be using a Broadcom wireless chip. In that case, you can go to the utility Ubuntu has to install that driver from internet by going to Software Sources > Additional Drivers tab. You need internet connection to do this. If the driver is in the repositories, it will show it to you and you can select it to fetch and install automatically.

    Best of Luck!

    EDIT: What were you doing when you got the output you showed to us?
    Almost anything I would input came up with that output. I have Googled it and it seems as though I need to alter parameters of some kind? Again, I almost have no idea what I am doing, but I want to learn.

    Thank you for you help regardless! When I try to install the driver from Software Sources>Additional Drivers tab, it freezes up.

    I believe there is a solution to this, I just need to find it!



    Ryan

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    Re: Trying to get my wifi working......

    It sounds like a minor annoyance. Have you tried a reboot?

    After that
    Code:
    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
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    Re: Trying to get my wifi working......

    Please find out what kind of wireless device you have from the terminal:
    Code:
    lspci -nn | grep 0280
    If it is a Broadcom, check the sticky here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2214110
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    Re: Trying to get my wifi working......

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