Good morning Edward I had similar problems. My work around was to wire conect the laptops into the modem for the install, then dkpg -ì the firmware.
Good luck On 24 September 2015 9:08:11 am AEST, Stephen Powell <zlinux...@wowway.com> wrote: >On Wed, 23 Sep 2015 08:23:39 -0400 (EDT), Edward Lukacs wrote: >> >> Oh, yes ... I can't get the ... Broadcom 4311 internal card >> running under Jessie. ... Strange, but up to and including Ubuntu >> 10.04, it ran right out of the box without any fuss ... > >Sounds like missing firmware. Do you have the non-free and contrib >sections of the Debian archive enabled in /etc/apt/sources.list? >Do you have Debian package firmware-b43-installer installed? > >After installing it, and rebooting, issue > > dmesg|less > >and search for the string "firmware" to see if the firmware loaded >properly this time, and to see if there are any other missing firmware >files for other hardware that requires firmware. > >By the way, please choose a more appropriate subject line in your posts >to this list. It's more likely to get attention that way. > >I am CCing you because the subject line implies that you are not >subscribed to the main list. Please do not CC me back; just reply to >the list, since I am subscribed to the list. > >-- > .''`. Stephen Powell <zlinux...@wowway.com> > : :' : > `. `'` > `- -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
