Re: no non-free firmware on lapton, no Ethernet, related?

[Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net>]

On 08/10/2017 07:11 AM, Emanuel Berg wrote:
> Dejan Jocic wrote:
>
> > Also, you mentioned that you need your
> > ethernet to work, these b43 packages are for
> > Broadcom wireless cards.
> Yes, that is what I meant in my OP, the lacking
> firmware for wireless should not influence
> Ethernet not working, right?
>
> Anyway, to manually install it seems
> unnecessary complicated, so I think I'll try
> the ISO with the non-free firmware included.
>
> > Whatever that you choose to do, do not forget
> > to check your /etc/apt/sources.list file and
> > add contrib and non-free after main wherever
> > it is needed, something like this:
> >
> > deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ jessie main
> > contrib non-free
> Yes, with Internet working it'll be no problems
> setting up the system.
I am primarily a PCLOS user, and I also have Mint 17 LTS. I can tell you 
that it is very tricky to get a Broadcom wireless interface to work on 
PCLOS, but on the Mint
system it works "out of the box" with no installation whatever. So what 
I can say is that you may need some extra software from Broadcom to get 
your Deb wireless
to work, and it may be difficult. Or you could get Mint and probably 
have no trouble!  This is not a free plug, just some information for you.

--doug