Debian often has missing, non-free firmware for Broadcom network cards, and I'm having trouble installing my wireless card manually after installation of a Debian based distro on my laptop. (without ethernet as well since I do not have a chord, so I’m trying to do this all manually.)
The card is a Broadcom BCM43602 802.11a/c (rev 1) on a debian distro with amd64 architecture.
The lspci -nn | grep Network
output shows:
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~# [b]lspci -nn | grep Network[/b]
03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries BCM43602 802.11ac Wireless LAN SoC [14e4:43ba] (rev 01)
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brcm/brcmfmac43602-pcie.Apple, brcm/brcmfmac43602-pcie.txt, and brcm/brcmfmac43602-pcie.clm_blob
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[ 7.313980] brcmfmac: brcmf_fw_alloc_request: using brcm/brcmfmac43602-pcie for chip BCM43602/1
[ 7.343833] brcmfmac 0000:03:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware brcm/brcmfmac43602-pcie.bin
[ 7.344537] brcmfmac 0000:03:00.0: firmware: failed to load brcm/brcmfmac43602-pcie.Apple Inc.-iMac16,2.txt (-2)
[ 7.344539] firmware_class: See https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware for information about missing firmware
[ 7.344540] brcmfmac 0000:03:00.0: Direct firmware load for brcm/brcmfmac43602-pcie.Apple Inc.-iMac16,2.txt failed with error -2
[ 7.344554] brcmfmac 0000:03:00.0: firmware: failed to load brcm/brcmfmac43602-pcie.txt (-2)
[ 7.344555] brcmfmac 0000:03:00.0: Direct firmware load for brcm/brcmfmac43602-pcie.txt failed with error -2
[ 7.866779] brcmfmac: brcmf_fw_alloc_request: using brcm/brcmfmac43602-pcie for chip BCM43602/1
[ 7.867233] brcmfmac 0000:03:00.0: firmware: failed to load brcm/brcmfmac43602-pcie.clm_blob (-2)
[ 7.867236] brcmfmac: brcmf_c_process_clm_blob: no clm_blob available (err=-2), device may have limited channels available
[ 7.868143] brcmfmac: brcmf_c_preinit_dcmds: Firmware: BCM43602/1 wl0: Nov 10 2015 06:38:10 version 7.35.177.61 (r598657) FWID 01-ea662a8c
[ 12.475721] broken atomic modeset userspace detected, disabling atomic
- https://packages.debian.org/buster/all/ ... 1/download
- https://packages.debian.org/buster/all/ ... s/download
- https://wiki.debian.org/brcmfmac
Along with the other packages like bc (https://packages.debian.org/sid/amd64/bc/download)
That I think I need to get my network controller running in a Debian distro.
I don’t have an ethernet chord so all of these debian packages had to be downloaded and unpackages with manually.
While I have read the Debian wiki page(link), I couldn’t move forward because of my complete lack of internet access in the first place.
After getting the files I straight unpacked them with dkms (dynamic kernel module support)
The iwconfig output shows that it does detect a wireless card, so I really have no idea what went wrong.
But I get the itching feeling that it’s me and something I’m doing wrong.
Thanks for your advice in advanced.