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Re: Network-related Chicken and Egg Issue, attempting Install of Debian 9.4

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On Sat, 21 Apr 2018 17:24:34 -0400 Kenneth Parker said:

> Hello,

Hello

> I am helping a Friend install Debian 9.4 to an old, Intel Macbook, where
> the only Internet access is through a Broadcom BCM4322 Wifi Chip.  I got as
> far as installing the Debian 9.4 CD-1, but couldn't get the Network up.
> 
> It seems that Debian doesn't wish to support "Non-Free" hardware, and wants
> me to visit wireless.kernel.org to download Firmware for this B43 Device.
> 
> But how do I download something, when I have no Internet, due to this
> "Non-Free Chipset"?

Please download the file below and keep it ready in a USB stick while installing
Debian, and when it asks if you would like to install non-free firmware (forgot
the context and wording) say yes and feed the USB stick to installer.

http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/firmware/stretch/current/firmware.tar.gz

You can also download the .deb package for firmware-brcm80211 (has no
dependencies) and post-install it via dpkg.

Regards
-- 
Abdullah Ramazanoglu

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Network-related Chicken and Egg Issue, attempting Install of Debian 9.4 Kenneth Parker <sea7kenp@gmail.com> - 2018-04-21 23:30 +0200
  Re: Network-related Chicken and Egg Issue, attempting Install of  Debian 9.4 Abdullah Ramazanoglu <ar018@yahoo.com> - 2018-04-21 23:50 +0200
  Re: Network-related Chicken and Egg Issue, attempting Install of Debian 9.4 Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com> - 2018-04-22 00:00 +0200
    Re: Network-related Chicken and Egg Issue, attempting Install of  Debian 9.4 Kenneth Parker <sea7kenp@gmail.com> - 2018-04-22 00:10 +0200
      Re: Network-related Chicken and Egg Issue, attempting Install of  Debian 9.4 Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2018-04-22 00:40 +0200
  Re: Network-related Chicken and Egg Issue, attempting Install of  Debian 9.4 David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2018-04-22 00:20 +0200
    Re: Network-related Chicken and Egg Issue, attempting Install of  Debian 9.4 Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2018-04-22 00:40 +0200
      Re: Network-related Chicken and Egg Issue, attempting Install of  Debian 9.4 Kenneth Parker <sea7kenp@gmail.com> - 2018-04-22 02:10 +0200
        Re: Network-related Chicken and Egg Issue, attempting Install of  Debian 9.4 Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-04-22 20:30 +0200
    Re: Network-related Chicken and Egg Issue, attempting Install of  Debian 9.4 Kenneth Parker <sea7kenp@gmail.com> - 2018-04-22 00:50 +0200
    Re: Network-related Chicken and Egg Issue, attempting Install of  Debian 9.4 <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2018-04-22 07:30 +0200
      Re: Network-related Chicken and Egg Issue, attempting Install of  Debian 9.4 David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2018-04-22 20:00 +0200
        Re: Network-related Chicken and Egg Issue, attempting Install of  Debian 9.4 <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2018-04-22 20:10 +0200
          Re: Network-related Chicken and Egg Issue, attempting Install of  Debian 9.4 David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2018-04-22 20:50 +0200
            Re: Network-related Chicken and Egg Issue, attempting Install of  Debian 9.4 Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-04-23 15:10 +0200
              Re: Network-related Chicken and Egg Issue, attempting Install of  Debian 9.4 David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2018-04-24 04:50 +0200
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