Re: Help setting up Broadcom WiFi on a Dell Inspiron 1501 laptop
On Wednesday, August 23, 2017 03:40:07 PM rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:
> On Sunday, August 20, 2017 03:00:28 PM Wim Michels wrote:
> > Hi,
> > all you need to install is the package:
> >
> > firmware-b43-installer
> >
> > from 'contrib' to get BCM4311 chip to work.
>
> Thanks, that worked!
Just wanted to add one thing--that worked for me in Wheezy, but not in Jessie.
It's possible that I did something wrong while in Jessie (I might have typed
nonfree instead of non-free in /etc/apt/sources.list). I haven't tried to
reinstall Jessie to retry--I plan to live with Wheezy (unless I get very
ambitious in the near future.
Oh, and I meant to send / keep this on the list, so sending to the list.
>
> I do need to learn more about how wireless networking and/or Network
> Manager work, but I did get connected.
>
> I did have to reboot after doing the install (as it didn't work before I
> rebooted, using about the same things that did work after the reboot). I
> suppose if I knew more I might have avoided the reboot, maybe by stopping
> and restarting some network related service. (But, this was a new
> install, and rebooting did not cause any problems.)
>
> Thanks again!
>
> Aside: There were, iirc, three other methods I was thinking of trying to
> get it to work (all basically headed in the same direction)--I have some
> notes about those in my off-line wiki-like thing and may try experimenting
> with those sometime (but, probably not ;-)
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