On 05/10/2018 10:05 PM, dan pridgeon wrote: > I'm trying to install ASCII on a Compaq presaria C700.According to the live > boot USB cli, it has a Broadcom BCM4311 802.11 b/g WLAN [14e4"4311] rev 02 > for the wireless adapter. The install complains, as it should, and ask for > two files, the names of which are duplicated for some reason: b43/ucode13.fw > and b43-open/ucode13.fw. After much searching and downloading and building > from instructions, I now have two copies of the file ucode13.fw; one from > build instructions and one from a github download with sizes 28,216 and > 29,008 respectively. Using a FAT32 usb drive and several attempts, I decided > to do the following:Using Gparted on this Refracta laptop, I recreated a > partition from scratch using all of the drive and formatting it to ext4 > format. I then creatd the following structure in hopes of covering all the > bases:It contains: > /ucode13.fw/b43/ucode13.fw/b43-open/ucode13.fw > I did this based on the installer message: "The missing files are: > b43/ucode.fw b43/ucode13.fw b43-open/ucode.fw b43-open/ucode.fw" > The permissions are set to 755 at all levels. > They are owned by root. > The installer tags the usb drive twice, computes a bit, and then tags the > drive three times before giving up and putting up the original message. > Any ideas as to how to proceed? Thank you. > >
Dan, Which iso are you using, and if installing from usb, what method did you use to prepare it? The firmware is in the installer isos, in /firmware. If you choose expert install (graphical or not) and use a mirror, you will be asked if you want non-free firmware or not. With a regular install or without a mirror, the firmware will be installed automatically. In the live isos, the firmware is already installed, and there's a script to remove it if you don't want it. (Look in /root or /usr/local/bin/) fsmithred _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
