On Wednesday, August 23, 2017 03:40:07 PM rhkra...@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 ;-)
