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Le 12/02/2017 à 05:55, Doug a écrit :
On 02/11/2017 11:02 PM, Billy O
wrote:
hello my name is William O'Brien
I have been using and researching debian for alittle
while now and have been trying to access wifi I have tried
several different ways and researched many tutorials and
help sections with very little success and was wondering if
you might be able to assist me with my problem.
so currently the computer I am trying to gain access with
is a dell 1521
with Broadcom 4311
the debian os works fine. however the few ways I have
tried don't seem to give me any closer to accessing wifi and
may end up re installing the os
but am wondering if theres any expert advice you might be
able to give on this subject.
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The Broadcom wifi boards are notorious! Windows has drivers for
them, and in my experience Mint 7 KDE 64-bit LTE also does. (Both
work "out of the box.") PCLinuxOS does not, and it is a
bitch to get it to work under PCLOS, altho possible. It may be
more difficult now, because I believe that Broadcom has been
bought out by another outfit. There is a large batch of comments
on the PCLINUXOS FORUMS, dating back to 2014, and some from 2015
and 2016, many involving me. (dougmack)
Seeing that you are using Deb, you might find it easier to switch
to Mint, which also uses the deb install system, and is filewise
compatible with Ubuntu, which as you probably know, was
a spinoff from Debian.
To some extent at least, Google is your friend. Put in Linux and
Broadcom 4311 and you may find some help there. I'm sure you can
access the PCLOS Forum without registering or signing
in, altho you can't post unless you do register. It is a pretty
friendly user interface, with a search feature, so you should be
able to find most of the Broadcom correspondence there.
Good luck! You're going to need it!
--doug
PS: If you can find a wifi board that's directly supported by
Debian, it may be worth your while to buy one and plug it in. I
think they're all pretty interchangeable. That would save you
hours of grief. I almost did that, but finally got it to work
before I went to that extreme.
--
Blessed are the peacemakers...for they shall be shot at from both sides.--A.M.Greeley
Hello,
Try with packages firmware-b43-installer from debian non-free
repository( you need to add this repository either in synaptic or
via /etc/apt/sources.list) , this package take care of downloading
the firmware, see:
https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/drivers/b43?s[]=bcm4311
@+Alex
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