On Sat, Feb 10, 2024 at 1:07 PM Exeonz <exeo...@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! > > -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian - The universal operating system ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://www.debian.org/ ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀
