Debian Live and Debian Install- How to get broadcom wireless going??
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but upon rebooting live usb a few times Wicd still shows no wireless connection.
btw my ethernet port has a short and connects/disconnects like an ocillating fan.
Also I tried installing debian from usb but it says it needs a cdrom/dvd....sigh
ondoho it's persistent usb nothing is lost on reboot.
I'm still trying but other problems exist now- after install debian minimal I installed fluxbox, firefox, xorg, lightdm and nothing works from fluxbox menu, not even a terminal will open so I may try a reinstall...
Guttorm thanks I saw that as well trying now
Also Ztoracat thanks as well looking it up
ondoho it's persistent usb nothing is lost on reboot.
I'm still trying but other problems exist now- after install debian minimal I installed fluxbox, firefox, xorg, lightdm and nothing works from fluxbox menu, not even a terminal will open so I may try a reinstall...
Guttorm thanks I saw that as well trying now
Also Ztoracat thanks as well looking it up
Ztoracat its a Dell Inspiron 1545 laptop 3G ram, 180GB drive dual core so not terribly old lol.
I found that I have to install/build from kernel source the broadcom-sta driver "wl" which pulls in a lot of packaages which sucks so after building I have to uninstall all that sigh.
so it's an AntiX issue.
I didn't read too carefully, but I must say your title is more than a little misleading, and your post #5 only adds to the confusion; frankly i just don't know anymore if you're still talking about the same system as in post #1 (which apparently is/was an AntiX system).
If it's still AntiX, I wonder if you have configured and enabled persistence.
I have used AntiX, and that was not something that worked ootb.
ondoho Antix is my hdd install where everything works, the debian live is on my usb and hdd and does not work until I figuered out it must be built from source with kernel source installed as in slackware.
So its a Debian issue because Debian doesnt come preloaded with the wl driver but antix does.
sorry for the confusion
Ztoracat its a Dell Inspiron 1545 laptop 3G ram, 180GB drive dual core so not terribly old lol.
I found that I have to install/build from kernel source the broadcom-sta driver "wl" which pulls in a lot of packaages which sucks so after building I have to uninstall all that sigh.
I wasn't able to find your exact machine but if it is the Dell Inspiron 1545 that came with Windows 7 Home Premium than it's not that old. Most Dells (learned from another Guru here) play nice with Linux however, in your case it's been a challenge to get the wifi working.
My Sony Vaio came with Windows 7 and I've had Debian and Slackware running on it for the last 4 or 5 years. Both distro's run great!
Sorry to hear you have to build from src. I know how much fun that can be.
Have you been able to install/build the broadcom-sta driver 'wl' and get the wifi working?
Thanks guys I appreciate it.
I broke both my debian live persistent usb and my debian hdd install by installing a bunch of antix stuff including remastering tools etc lol cause antix and debian conflict on systemd I think...but antix has the wl driver I need preinstalled which I thought I could just add from their repository, their kernel, etc so Im thinking I could transfer the kernel stuff, kernel initrd, modules etc from antix to a clean minimal debian install or install their kernel etc.
My whole aim here is to actually get a remaster system/usb persistent system for slackware based off antix's source code for isosnapshot, remaster, usb-installer etc but in antix it requires heavy depends like qt5, etc and I want a terminal driven scripts so...and Im not a programmer lol but anyway Ill keep tryin.
btw I know about slackware-live and live-kit but antix's stuff is par excellance
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