Re: Proprietary WiFi drivers for live mode
On 2022-06-26, Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> wrote:
> On 2022-06-25 18:11 +0300, Kristijonas Lukas Bukauskas wrote:
>
>> I have an old Dell laptop with Broadcom BCM43142 WiFi device
>> (https://wiki.debian.org/wl). It doesn't have a hard drive, so I
>> sometimes boot Debian from USB Memory Stick in live mode.
>> The problem is that WiFi doesn't work because of the proprietary drivers
>> it needs.
>
> Probably you do not need proprietary drivers for your card, but it
> requires non-free firmware. Which on these old Broadcom devices is a
> PITA, because Broadcom did not make it easily available.
>
I'm reading he needs to build the driver from source using
'broadcom-sta-dkms'.
curty@einstein:~$ apt-cache show broadcom-sta-dkms
Package: broadcom-sta-dkms
Source: broadcom-sta
Version: 6.30.223.271-5
Installed-Size: 14140
Maintainer: Eduard Bloch <blade@debian.org>
Architecture: all
Provides: broadcom-sta-modules
Depends: dkms (>= 2.1.0.0)
Recommends: wireless-tools
Conflicts: broadcom-sta-modules
Description-en: dkms source for the Broadcom STA Wireless driver
Broadcom STA is a binary-only device driver to support the following IEEE
802.11a/b/g/n wireless network cards: BCM4311-, BCM4312-, BCM4313-,
BCM4321-, BCM4322-, BCM43142-, BCM43224-, BCM43225-, BCM43227-, BCM43228-,
BCM4331-, BCM4360-, and BCM4352-based hardware.
.
This package provides the source code for the wl kernel modules and makes use
of the DKMS build utility to install them for the running kernel. The
alternative package broadcom-sta-source can be used instead in case of build
problems.
.
The wireless-tools package is also required in order to make use of these
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