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rrbrorrr

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[EXCALIBUR] No wifi in live cd w/ BCM 4360

I am trying to install Devuan Excalibur from the live CD, but even the live CD is unable to connect to the internet.

Running lspci shows that my wifi card is a Broadcom BCM 4360 and that the kernel is trying to use the bcma driver with it. This is clearly incorrect, so I tried to figure out how to load the correct driver, to no avail (it is seemingly not included with the nonfree firmware loaded by default). Apparently, it is located in the broadcom-sta-dkms package, but my lack of internet access means that I cannot simply download it from the live CD.  Any ideas on how I should proceed to get the wifi card to work?

EDIT: I am currently running a Windows install that has the functioning driver, so if there is any way to get the live CD to make a wrapper around the Windows driver, I would be willing to try that as well. I also have fast boot disabled, so fast boot is not the problem.

Last edited by rrbrorrr (Today 18:07:41)

fsmithred

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Re: [EXCALIBUR] No wifi in live cd w/ BCM 4360

Some of the broadcoms are left out because they require the user to agree to certain conditions. I thought this was one of those, but now I'm not so sure. I might try making a live iso with broadcom-sta-dkms, and if it works, I can upload it for you to use. Instructions for installing all the broadcom drivers can be found at wiki.debian.org,  and they might require that you have an internet connection to get what you need to have an internet connection.

Easiest way to get what you need is if you can use an ethernet cable. You need to add non-free to the active lines in sources.list.

Alternatively, you could download the packages in windows and then install them when you boot into devuan. Here's the list of what you need:

# apt install broadcom-sta-dkms linux-headers-$(uname -r)
Installing:                     
  broadcom-sta-dkms  linux-headers-6.12.57+deb13-amd64

Installing dependencies:
  binutils                   libalgorithm-diff-perl     libitm1
  binutils-common            libalgorithm-diff-xs-perl  liblsan0
  binutils-x86-64-linux-gnu  libalgorithm-merge-perl    libquadmath0
  build-essential            libasan8                   libsframe1
  dkms                       libbinutils                libstdc++-14-dev
  dpkg-dev                   libc-dev-bin               libtsan2
  fakeroot                   libc6-dev                  libubsan1
  g++                        libcc1-0                   linux-headers-6.12.57+deb13-common
  g++-14                     libcrypt-dev               linux-kbuild-6.12.57+deb13
  g++-14-x86-64-linux-gnu    libctf-nobfd0              linux-libc-dev
  g++-x86-64-linux-gnu       libctf0                    make
  gcc                        libfakeroot                manpages
  gcc-14                     libgcc-14-dev              manpages-dev
  gcc-14-x86-64-linux-gnu    libgprofng0                pahole
  gcc-x86-64-linux-gnu       libhwasan0                 rpcsvc-proto

Edit:
I installed into a VM and was able to install broadcom-sta-dkms without having to agree to a license. I'm surprised. I'm making a new iso now that you can test. I don't have hardware for that.

fsmithred

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Re: [EXCALIBUR] No wifi in live cd w/ BCM 4360

Please try this and let me know if it works. There's a gpg sig file in the same directory.

https://get.refracta.org/files/experime … 4_2014.iso

sha256sum:

31c2849c144cf99b742cce27e1781baa2d6df935f0b3bd86bee14e7545008a59  excalibur_nonfree-20260224_2014.iso