Hi,
I am a newbie to Debian and am trying to install the driver for my wireless card. I have been reading on the Debian wiki and have watched a youtube video and am a bit overwhelmed. I am running Debian on a Dell Inspiron 1525 with 4gb ram and a Broadcom wireless card. Below are the specs on my card:
0b:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Limited BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY [14e4:4315] (rev 01)
Below are the contents of my /etc/apt/sources.list file:
# deb cdrom:[Official Debian GNU/Linux Live 10.0.0 kde 2019-07-06T12:13]/ buster main
#deb cdrom:[Official Debian GNU/Linux Live 10.0.0 kde 2019-07-06T12:13]/ buster main
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ buster main
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ buster main
deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates main
deb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates main
# buster-updates, previously known as 'volatile'
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ buster-updates main
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ buster-updates main
# This system was installed using small removable media
# (e.g. netinst, live or single CD). The matching "deb cdrom"
# entries were disabled at the end of the installation process.
# For information about how to configure apt package sources,
# see the sources.list(5) manual.
On the Debian wiki page under the Broadcom 43xx wireless devices section it says to add a "contrib" component to your existing repository line.
which line in my file is this?
Below are the contents of my /etc/network/interfaces file. I wasn't sure if this would be of any help but added it below anyway.
# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).
source /etc/network/interfaces.d/*
# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
One other small unrelated question. Why when I login to the Debian user forums is the login page not secure? I tried https and it did not work for this forum's URL.
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WIFI configuration
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ruwolf
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Re: WIFI configuration
Where is the word "main", you can simply add "contrib", so it will end by "main contrib" (without quotation marks, of course)...
But contrib type package usually depends on non-free type package(s), so it probably needs all 3 categories: "main contrib non-free".
But contrib type package usually depends on non-free type package(s), so it probably needs all 3 categories: "main contrib non-free".
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Re: WIFI configuration
Your hardware needs the wl driver, refer to that Debian wiki page instead.jam7755 wrote:On the Debian wiki page under the Broadcom 43xx wireless devices section it says to add a "contrib" component to your existing repository line.
[spoiler alert]This requires the non-free component rather than contrib[/spoiler alert]
deadbang
Re: WIFI configuration
Thanks. ruwolf, if I am reading the beginning of your post correctly I should update all lines where "main" is. Right?