Broadcom nic and Nvidia Driver together

[gutsanglory]

Hi all,
I love Debian, and have installed it many times on random hardware. I'm still quite the nube, but can move around the system pretty smoothly. I have ran into a problem when trying to load Buster on an older laptop of mine, Dell Latitude E6420. It seems that i can load the Broadcom wireless without too much issue, but when I try to also load the Nvidia driver, it kills the Broadcom connectivity.
I'm loading the system using image:
debian-live-10.2.0-amd64-kde+nonfree.iso
System loads fine and everything comes up, except Nvidia drivers, Broadcom wireless, and the camera.
I'm loading the broadcom driver using the Debian wiki:
https://wiki.debian.org/wl
and the Nvidia driver using the Debian wiki as well:
https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsD ... cy_GPUs.29
Version 390.116 (legacy GPUs)
Either will work, but trying to get them to work together is where/when I'm having the trouble, and the Wireless will die. I tried loading the Video first and then the wireless. Then the reverse, but still the result is wireless will die with either installed first.
Another installation note, the system does recognize and ask for missing firmware files, which i guess it cant find on the nonfree iso version im using.
Missing firmware files:
b43/ucode30_mimo.fw
b43-open/ucode30_mimo.fw
Detected NVIDIA GPUs:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GF119M [NVS 4200M] [10de:1056] (rev a1)

Checking card: NVIDIA Corporation GF119M [NVS 4200M] (rev a1)
Your card is only supported up to the 390 legacy drivers series.
It is recommended to install the
nvidia-legacy-390xx-driver
package.

lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family DRAM Controller (rev 09)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200/2nd Generation Core Processor Family PCI Express Root Port (rev 09)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82579LM Gigabit Network Connection (rev 04)
00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 (rev 04)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev b4)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 2 (rev b4)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 3 (rev b4)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 4 (rev b4)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 6 (rev b4)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation QM67 Express Chipset Family LPC Controller (rev 04)
00:1f.2 RAID bus controller: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile SATA Controller [RAID mode] (rev 04)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family SMBus Controller (rev 04)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF119M [NVS 4200M] (rev a1)
01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation GF119 HDMI Audio Controller (rev a1)
03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Limited BCM43228 802.11a/b/g/n
0b:00.0 SD Host controller: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ600FJ0/OZ900FJ0/OZ600FJS SD/MMC Card Reader Controller (rev 05)
0b:00.1 Mass storage controller: O2 Micro, Inc. Device 8231 (rev 03)

I appreciate any assistance/guidance with this issue.
Thx,
Guts

[Head_on_a_Stick]

Wireless will die

^ What does this mean, exactly? Please post actual command output.

And why don't you just use nouveau?

[gutsanglory]

Hi,
Thanks for the reply.
Once the nvidia driver is loaded, the wireless will no longer show under the network, hence no wireless networks are able to be found.
I have already reloaded and have not installed the nvidia, but will continue to use nouveau unless someone can provide solution to the conflict of these two drivers.

Thx,

[Head_on_a_Stick]

the wireless will no longer show under the network

^ What does this mean, exactly? Please post actual command output.

For example:

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ip a
ip r
lspci -k | grep -A2 'Broadcom\|VGA'