Hello,

I have recently installed Dragora on my laptop (easily thanks to the installation guide) however WiFi is not working. How can I fix that ?

Here are the lspci infos about my WiFi card :

24:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller (rev 01)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 145c
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
Memory at d4400000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [58] Vendor Specific Information: Len=78 <?>
Capabilities: [48] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
Capabilities: [d0] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
Capabilities: [13c] Virtual Channel
Capabilities: [160] Device Serial Number 00-00-7a-ff-ff-3d-20-10
Capabilities: [16c] Power Budgeting <?>
Kernel driver in use: bcma-pci-bridge
Kernel modules: bcma

I would appreciate any help that you can provide.

Installing the Broadcom driver for your card should help.

https://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wi...Driver/bcm43xx
https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/...vers/brcm80211

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I hope you can make a wired connection while you solve this problem.

This is a common problem, as the exact chipset is a variable with Broadcom. With the detection only almost certain, the correct drivers do not always install. key is this string You want to do a search for BROADCOM on your Repos, and read the descriptions of the packages, and install the one that most closely matches the BCM4313 device you have. A little Google research may be in order.

The solution is readily available in Debian and CentOS repos, but you may have to install manually for D/Libre.

I have run into this at least four times that I recall, and was always able to solve it by just installing the correct package. Only once did I have to back out my first choice and install a different one.

Once you get the wifi working, the wired connection becomes optional.

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I've found the adequate driver thanks to Ztcoracat (this one), but when I try the make command it says :

KBUILD_NOPEDANTIC=1 make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build M=`pwd`
make: *** /lib/modules/3.2.15-smp64/build: No such file or directory. Stop.
make: *** [all] Error 2

What should I do ?

PS : How can I stop that kind of "error" sound that plays for certain actions (it seems to occur whenever I press the delete key in order to delete a file or a folder) ?

Look in the directory of the driver and see if there is a make file.
Is there one?

Make sure your in the right directory and the exact path to the file 'make' is looking for.

Yes there is a file called "Makefile"

If you continue to have make errors with that driver download and install this driver instead.
https://packages.debian.org/jessie/k...adcom-sta-dkms

It's a .deb package so it's fairly easy to install on a Debian based system.
Just use gdebi or become root and install the driver with dpkg --install (name of driver)-

Here is some code taken from the Makefile and which seem relevant to the problem :

KBASE ?= /lib/modules/`uname -r`
KBUILD_DIR ?= $(KBASE)/build
MDEST_DIR ?= $(KBASE)/kernel/drivers/net/wireless

# Cross compile setup. Tool chain and kernel tree, replace with your own.
CROSS_TOOLS = /path/to/tools
CROSS_KBUILD_DIR = /path/to/kernel/tree

all:
KBUILD_NOPEDANTIC=1 make -C $(KBUILD_DIR) M=`pwd`

cross:
KBUILD_NOPEDANTIC=1 make CROSS_COMPILE=${CROSS_TOOLS} -C $(CROSS_KBUILD_DIR) M=`pwd`

clean:
KBUILD_NOPEDANTIC=1 make -C $(KBUILD_DIR) M=`pwd` clean

install:
install -D -m 755 wl.ko $(MDEST_DIR)

Can that help ?

In the meantime I'll try your solution.

I honestly don't know.
Make errors can be a real pain in the neck.

Certain drivers can be complex to compile and if the practice of building something needs to be done I won't be able to help,sorry.


Let us know if that Debian driver works:-

Dragora is not based on Debian, it can only handle packages ending with .tlz.

Sorry about that Oliems.
I thought Dragora was based on Debian:-

No problem. Do you know if it is possible to "convert" this .deb package into a .tlz package ?

I didn't find anything online for converting a .deb into a .tlz.
Closest I found was converting a .deb into a .rpm.

Maybe try looking in the Dragora Git repo?
http://savannah.nongnu.org/git/?group=dragora

I looked here but couldn't find the driver in .tlz form.
https://jul.gungre.ch/search
https://gungre.ch/dragora/repo/frusen/stable/

What http:// address shows up in the command-line terminal when you update your os?

Yea there is deb2tgz and deb2targz, once it is a regular tgz you can repack it to tlz.

Hi Oliems...

Just as a thought, you may need to consider moving to another distribution if you want and are unable to get the wireless working. Ubuntu and Linux Mint, as an example, make this process a lot simpler for Broadcom chips.

Regards...