Re: Proprietary WiFi drivers for live mode

[Bijan Soleymani <bijan@psq.com>]

On 6/25/2022 4:07 PM, piorunz wrote:
> Don't walk in the dark. Instead, do the following:
> sudo dmesg (in live mode without internet)
>
> Error in red about network adapter will tell you exact name of the file
> you need to download on machine with internet.
>
> You do it as follows:
> sudo apt update
> sudo apt install apt-file
> sudo apt-file update
> apt-file search filename
>
> where "filename" is exact filename missing from laptop without WiFi. 

Unfortunately in this case that might not work.

The file that is needed is wl.ko

But it is compiled on install of the dkms package.

so:

apt-file search /wl.ko

Doesn't give anything.

You'd have to search for one of the source files:

apt-file search wl_linux.c

bijan@bijan-xps:~$ apt-file search wl_linux.c
bcmwl-kernel-source: /usr/src/bcmwl-6.30.223.271+bdcom/src/wl/sys/wl_linux.c
broadcom-sta-dkms: /usr/src/broadcom-sta-6.30.223.271/src/wl/sys/wl_linux.c

Bijan