> - use a USB wireless dongle instead of your integrated wireless card.
OK, I will try that and I will let you know how it went
I have no other option, so I will have to offer myself as some sort
of guinea pig and waste time/effort exploring such territories
Thank you very much,
lbrtchx
>
Le mardi 10 novembre 2020 à 14:20:06 UTC+1, Albretch Mueller a écrit :
[...]
> // __ nach installation: ls -l "/lib/firmware/b43"
[...]
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31176 Nov 7 17:59 ucode11.fw
[...]
> // __ journalctl | grep -i firmware
> Nov 07 17:44:06 debian kernel: acpi PNP0A08:00: [Firmware
OK, here is the whole log of the script I ran to install the b43 drivers.
It is a bit long, but you will certainly be able to quickly visually
scan it and see where teh error is/might be.
Yes, I am descending onto init 2 after I used a live DVD. I am OK
with doing that every time. I can't conn
Le jeudi 5 novembre 2020 à 12:00:06 UTC+1, Albretch Mueller a écrit :
> > "ip l" (for "ip link") lists the network links the kernel is aware of.
> $ ip l
> 1: lo: mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN
> mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1
> link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
>
Albretch Mueller wrote:
> and I run dmesg before and after the installation. This is what I got as
> diff:
>
> $ _IFL00="demsg_Wed Nov 4 13:36:51 UTC 2020.log"
> $ _IFL02="dmesg_Wed Nov 4 12:51:11 UTC 2020.log"
>
>
> $ diff "${_IFL00}" "${_IFL02}"
> 1365,1386d1364
> < [ 592.364045] fuse in
and I run dmesg before and after the installation. This is what I got as diff:
$ _IFL00="demsg_Wed Nov 4 13:36:51 UTC 2020.log"
$ _IFL02="dmesg_Wed Nov 4 12:51:11 UTC 2020.log"
$ diff "${_IFL00}" "${_IFL02}"
1365,1386d1364
< [ 592.364045] fuse init (API version 7.26)
< [ 597.114432] perf: i
> "ip l" (for "ip link") lists the network links the kernel is aware of.
$ ip l
1: lo: mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN
mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
$ sudo iwconfig
lono wireless extensions.
> And to keep it simple, doe
Le mardi 3 novembre 2020 à 12:10:06 UTC+1, Albretch Mueller a écrit :
> > sudo modprobe b43
>
> Doesn't show to me anything.
>
> and
>
> > ip l
>
> displays a sequence of 0:0:0:0:0: ... chars which don't look like a
> MAC address or any of such things
>
>
> lbrtchx
"modprobe b43" tries
> sudo modprobe b43
Doesn't show to me anything.
and
> ip l
displays a sequence of 0:0:0:0:0: ... chars which don't look like a
MAC address or any of such things
lbrtchx
Albretch Mueller wrote:
> However, I don't see the wireless card being activated (its LED
> blinking) nor do I see the network-manager showing me any connections
> and, of course, if I reboot that laptop I will lose those folders.
Copy them to a USB stick? There's nothing system-specific about
t
OK, I followed the instructions on Dan Ritter's link and everything
seems to be fine and dandy, but I used a windows computer with access
to the Internet to download and gpg test the downloaded data and used
Debian Live (running it from the DVD) to run "make" and "make install"
on the target compu
Le jeudi 22 octobre 2020 à 16:00:06 UTC+2, Albretch Mueller a écrit :
[...]
> what should I do now?
Follow the link Dan Ritter gave to you earlier:
http://linuxwireless.sipsolutions.net/en/users/Drivers/b43/#other_distros
it indicates to install (dpkg -i or apt install) b43-fwcutter
and then:
OK, after installing lspci (again, via dpkg and I write up in kind of
a step by step way because other people may have the same problems,
run into this thread)
$ sudo dpkg --install pciutils_3.5.2-1_amd64.deb
Selecting previously unselected package pciutils.
(Reading database ... 232551 files and
Le jeudi 22 octobre 2020 à 12:30:06 UTC+2, Albretch Mueller a écrit :
> > I suggest using firmware-b43-installer ...
>
> Once again, I am using dpkg and installing the deb packages locally
> because I am trying to troubleshoot, make a wireless card work.
>
> Why would a package used to make a
Albretch Mueller wrote:
> > I suggest using firmware-b43-installer ...
>
> Once again, I am using dpkg and installing the deb packages locally
> because I am trying to troubleshoot, make a wireless card work.
>
> Why would a package used to make a wireless card come to live, have
> to connect
> I suggest using firmware-b43-installer ...
Once again, I am using dpkg and installing the deb packages locally
because I am trying to troubleshoot, make a wireless card work.
Why would a package used to make a wireless card come to live, have
to connect to the Internet to do its things? Isn't
On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 4:51 PM Albretch Mueller wrote:
> I got that tar ball and I think i am doing the right thing, but
> something is not going well:
The firmware-b43-installer package uses b43-fwcutter to extract the
firmware from the tarball, I suggest using firmware-b43-installer
instead o
I got that tar ball and I think i am doing the right thing, but
something is not going well:
$ _IFL="broadcom-wl-5.100.138.tar.bz2"
$ ls -l "${_IFL}"
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13514651 Aug 13 2011 broadcom-wl-5.100.138.tar.bz2
$ file --brief "${_IFL}"
bzip2 compressed data, block size = 900k
$ s
On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 12:43 PM Albretch Mueller wrote:
> Thank you for all the leads and I was installing
> firmware-b43-installer via dpkg, but after I took care of all
> dependencies firmware-b43-installer was trying to connect to the
> Internet to some lwfinder?
>
> Resolving http://www.lw
Albretch Mueller wrote:
> > apt install firmware-b43-installer
> > will be needed, I think.
>
> Thank you for all the leads and I was installing
> firmware-b43-installer via dpkg, but after I took care of all
> dependencies firmware-b43-installer was trying to connect to the
> Internet to some
> apt install firmware-b43-installer
> will be needed, I think.
Thank you for all the leads and I was installing
firmware-b43-installer via dpkg, but after I took care of all
dependencies firmware-b43-installer was trying to connect to the
Internet to some lwfinder?
Resolving http://www.lwfing
Albretch Mueller wrote:
> I test a MacBook Air 1,1 with Debian Live DVD
>
> $ uname -a
> Linux debian 4.9.0-6-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.82-1+deb9u3 (2018-03-02)
> x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> and all seems to be fine and dandy, except for the wireless network
> card. This is what dmidecode and hwinfo te
I test a MacBook Air 1,1 with Debian Live DVD
$ uname -a
Linux debian 4.9.0-6-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.82-1+deb9u3 (2018-03-02)
x86_64 GNU/Linux
and all seems to be fine and dandy, except for the wireless network
card. This is what dmidecode and hwinfo tell me about it:
Model: "Apple AirPort
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