Installing Broadcom firmware for inspiron 1525 on wheezy 7.7

[RESOLVED ] Hi guys im a new linux user and after having trawled the web for hours looking for solutions i have come to a dead end with the installation of my wireless cards firmware.

So far i have successfully identified the card and drivers needed. I have downloaded the correct firmware from AUR but am struggling to install the firmware. Any help would be genuinely apprecited as this linux is a big bad world to newbs i have "Broadcom-wl-5.100.138.tar.bz2" downloaded but it contains no instructions in the read me file.

having problems following anyone elses progress from google.

Thanks for reading hopefully we can get this wireless card working

have tried various commands suggested for installing firmware but no luck as of yet :/

Hi,

in Debian you can install the firmware using the non-free packages - you shouldn't need/use the Broadcom-wl-5.100.138.tar.bz2 file. You probably need the firmware-brcm80211 package, but since you didn't tell us exactly what wireless chip you have so I can't be sure.

See https://wiki.debian.org/brcm80211 for details and instructions on how to get your wireless working. Post back here if you get stuck.

Evo2.

Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY (rev 01) is the wireless adapter.

thank you for the reply will try now

after following that advice i ran into this problem

root@localhost:~# deb http://http.debian.net/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free
bash: deb: command not found


root@localhost:~# apt-get install firmware-brcm80211
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package firmware-brcm80211

Hi,

Originally Posted by conbean after following that advice i ran into this problem root@localhost:~# deb http://http.debian.net/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free bash: deb: command not found

That is not a command, it is a line you should add to /etc/apt/sources.list

After doing that you'll need to run:

apt-get update

Then run the following.

Originally Posted by conbean root@localhost:~# apt-get install firmware-brcm80211 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package firmware-brcm80211

Evo2.

PS. All this assumes you have some other form of network connection.

Post your /etc/apt/sources.list
Here's an example yours would be the entries that I commented out to upgrade to Sid.

# # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 7.7.0 _Wheezy_ - Official i386 CD Binary-1 20141018-11:53]/ wheezy main # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 7.7.0 _Wheezy_ - Official i386 CD Binary-1 20141018-11:53]/ wheezy main deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian unstable main non-free contrib deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian unstable main non-free contrib # deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free # deb-src http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free # wheezy-updates, previously known as 'volatile' # deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates main contrib non-free # deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates main contrib non-free deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org sid main non-free

thanks for the response due to real life issues havent had the time to try it out. seing as the kids are in bed ill have a go now and give some feedback. thanks again

firmware-brcm80211 - Binary firmware for Broadcom 802.11 wireless cards

That is the from output of "apt-cache search broadcom".

Once you get your sources.list to look like this;

deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free
## deb-src http://mirror.steadfast.net/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free

deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free
## deb-src http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free

## wheezy-updates, previously known as 'volatile'
deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates main contrib non-free
## deb-src http://mirror.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/mirror/debian.org/debian/ squeeze-updates main

and run;

apt-get update

you should be able to get that package by itself but it is included with the package "firmware-nonfree" and that is what you should probably install. You may need something else included in that too;

apt-get install firmware-nonfree

It would be

apt-get install firmware-linux-nonfree

Originally Posted by EDDY1 It would be

Sorry, did it again.

Need a new brain.

Ok, so ive updated my sources.list file to inlcude what you guys have suggested. ran apt-get update and proceeded to install firmware-linux-non-free. Unfortunately im still being told by the GUI firmware is missing. any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated and thanks for the help so far

While it is rarely needed when installing something you probably should reboot.

It could be that the system needs to "see" the firmware and that it hasn't been started.

Try following this guide (you have already done step 1):
https://wiki.debian.org/wl#Debian_7_.22Wheezy.22

thanks so much for the help guys, problem solved by installing the b43 firmware. Now to read up on the basics from the comfort of my sofa instead of huddled next to the router every reply was helpfull and much appreciated. peace

Congratulations Glad you got it working.
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