On 2022-06-26, Sven Joachim <svenj...@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 <bl...@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
