Re: Is there such a thing as a Debian blend for a MacBook Air 1,1 and/or Mac boxes in general? ...
Albretch Mueller wrote:
> > apt install firmware-b43-installer
> > will be needed, I think.
>
> Thank you for all the leads and I was installing
> firmware-b43-installer via dpkg, but after I took care of all
> dependencies firmware-b43-installer was trying to connect to the
> Internet to some lwfinder?
>
> Resolving http://www.lwfinger.com]www.lwfinger.com ... failed: Name
> or service not known.
>
ping www.lwfinger.com
PING lwfinger.com (173.254.30.178) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from just2042.justhost.com (173.254.30.178): icmp_seq=1
ttl=48 time=56.6 ms
Yeah, this package goes and gets the firmware from an external
source. Broadcom is nasty like that.
-dsr-
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