On Sun 26 Jun 2022 at 09:07:11 (+0200), Hans wrote: > Am Sonntag, 26. Juni 2022, 08:46:02 CEST schrieb Sven Joachim: > > On 2022-06-25 18:11 +0300, Kristijonas Lukas Bukauskas wrote: > > > I have an old Dell laptop with Broadcom BCM43142 WiFi device > > > (https://wiki.debian.org/wl). It doesn't have a hard drive, so I > > > sometimes boot Debian from USB Memory Stick in live mode. > > > The problem is that WiFi doesn't work because of the proprietary drivers > > > it needs. > > > > Probably you do not need proprietary drivers for your card, but it > > requires non-free firmware. Which on these old Broadcom devices is a > > PITA, because Broadcom did not make it easily available. > > > > > I tried booting it from live+nonfree image > > > (https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmw > > > are/11.3.0-live+nonfree/amd64/iso-hybrid/), but still no luck (WiFi > > > doesn't work). As I understand, the needed drivers would load when > > > installing the system, but they do not load in live mode. > > > > There is a misunderstanding here. Debian's non-free images do not > > contain proprietary drivers, but they provide firmware for the devices, > > so that the in-kernel drivers can actually work. > > > > If the non-free image does not work, the firmware for your device is > > missing because of licensing reasons. There is a package named > > firmware-b43-installer in contrib which downloads Broadcom's old drivers > > and extracts the firmware from them. Obviously you need a network > > connection for that, so you might have to use it on another system. > > > > 1. https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/firmware-b43-installer > > In your case I would suggest to build your own lifefile system with live- > build. > > Thus you have the opportunity, to add any package you want to it and build in > your language, and you can also add packages not availabe in the debian repo. > > If you get your Dell laptop running with some additionally package from the > debian repo, then you can add them in your own live-build. > > The original debian livefile does sometimes not include, what you need. > > You might (but this does not always work!), packages fro,m Ubuntu, which are > not available in debian. But take care of compabilties, Ubunto sometimes do > their own things and packages from Ubuntu might break debian. > > I am doing all this, when building kali-linux live-system, which building is > almost the same as a debian-live system. > > Give it a try, maybe it helps.
Sorry, but I can't see the attraction of a live system, as opposed to just building the Debian system on a stick. Care to explain? Cheers, David.
