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Re: Debian bookwork 12.4 installation wifi card not being detected

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On Sat, Feb 10, 2024 at 1:07 PM Exeonz <exeonz1@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey thanks for your time in advance. I'm trying to install debian bookworm
> 12.4 on MacbookAir7,2 that doesn't have an ethernet port and the installer
> doesn't recognize it's wifi card and what drivers it needs for the card to
> work. From searching the web I found that it uses Broadcom BCM 4360
> wireless network adapter and requires broadcom-sda-dkms firmware drivers to
> function. The installer doesn't detect the wifi card and none of the
> drivers from the select list work and when I use 2nd bootable USB formatted
> as FAT32 with broadcom-sda-dkms firmware drivers saved to root and firmware
> folder it doesn't accept drivers and gives out error "ethernet card not
> found" I've looked through entire debian wiki and other wikis and forums
> like arch wiki and found no answers anywhere. I have successfully installed
> ubuntu on this macbook air and it works just fine with the wifi card. Could
> you please shed some light on how I can possibly install debian on this
> macbook air.
>
> Some other things that I've tried that didn't work.
> Every available driver from the install list.
> Older non-free debian version 11.8.0 because I thought it would have
> drivers but it didn't work either.
> Downloading all firmware from https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/firmware/
> onto USB formatted as FAT32 in root and firmware folder
> Using command like during installation for extra option to load drivers
> off USB. (this command doesn't seem to work on bookwork 12.4)
> https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware
>
>
>
> *Installation+Archive+USBStickpreseed/early_command="modprobe vfat ; sleep
> 2 ;mount /dev/disk/by-label/FIRMWARE /media ;cp -a /media/firmware /lib"*
> Using rtl8812au-5.2.20 firmware drivers
> Ripping out firmware drivers from ubuntu install that works fine with this
> wifi card and putting it on same USB
> *bcmwl-kernel-source_6.30.223.271+bdcom-0ubuntu10~22.04.1_amd64*
>
Try installing Trixie
https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/amd64/iso-dvd/. Debian 12
is starting to show its age. It uses the LTS kernel 6.1. You really have
two choices:

1. Install Debian Bullseye with a working USB WiFi adapter. Configure
Debian backports and upgrade the kernel and install the needed drivers.

2. Install Debian Testing (Trixie). Trixie has a much newer kernel and the
latest drivers. It also contains newer versions of the other software as
well. I ran Debian testing for Debian 12 for a little over a year until
Bullseye was released!




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Debian bookwork 12.4 installation wifi card not being detected Exeonz <exeonz1@gmail.com> - 2024-02-10 13:10 +0100
  Re: Debian bookwork 12.4 installation wifi card not being detected Timothy M Butterworth <timothy.m.butterworth@gmail.com> - 2024-02-11 02:00 +0100
    Re: Debian bookwork 12.4 installation wifi card not being detected Exeonz <exeonz1@gmail.com> - 2024-02-11 07:30 +0100
      Re: Debian bookwork 12.4 installation wifi card not being detected "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2024-02-11 12:50 +0100

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