The verified solution for this guide was to use another PC to download the necessary files onto a USB flash drive and then transfer those files to the user directory on the Linux Mint 16 PC with no Internet connectivity. The files needed were fwcutter a deb file and the Broadcom-wl proprietary driver source file. Fwcutter is a tool written for BCM43xx driver files to extract firmware from driver source files. In this case, broadcom-wl Scroll down the page to locate the broadcom files entries.
Transfer the files to your user directory on the Linux Mint PC and double-click the bfwcutter file to install it. Ignore any warnings about the version being out-of-date. Ignore any warnings. The wireless should now work.
Do not use B43 legacy. Broadcom driver is actually on the installation media. Hence , removing bcmwl is not an option at all. So, can i install b43 drivers side-by-side with bcwml and have it do its job if i use a system which needs bcmwl and not b43? It is part of linux kernel. But it needs firmware. Add a comment. The Overflow Blog. Stack Gives Back Safety in numbers: crowdsourcing data on nefarious IP addresses. Featured on Meta. New post summary designs on greatest hits now, everywhere else eventually.
Linked 2. See more linked questions. Related 0. Hot Network Questions. That should do the trick. After I run the "Sudo modprobe b43" command I get no output at all. I let it run for about ten minutes and then stopped it. The thing is you need to copy drivers catalog somewhere e. Desktop , unpack and go to folder kmod. Then you can either execute cd command from Terminal or right click somewhere opened window of kmod cataloge and from menu choose Open in Terminal option. Hope that help, if not- let me know.
Back to top. Posted: Sun Oct 02, am Post subject:. Also be aware that bcm might require the proprietary broadcom-sta driver. If you find any other Linux LiveCD which gives you working wireless, then you can use that to install Gentoo. Posted: Sun Oct 02, pm Post subject:. In the link you mentioned, it says: bcm not tested.
Can i manually install the firmware? Personally on my laptop which requires broadcom-sta i use an Ubuntu CD as it has the driver. An you cannot install it without Internet access, because it needs to download the driver. John R. Might want to try that. I will do an offline emerge and see what happens. I did an offline emerge of bfirmware.
It complained about a couple of libraries, but it compiled just fine. It didn't work either. So, i tried with ubuntu
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