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Bug squashing for LMDE 4 Cinnamon BETA
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Wifi (Broadcom BCM43142) not supported in Live boot. #24

Closed Jeremy7701 closed 4 years ago

Jeremy7701 commented 4 years ago

Broadcom BCM43142 not detected in live boot. Likely to be problematic for a range of Broadcom cards? I proceeded with install to disk and on mandatory reboot, problem fixed. Possible cause:- the install provides the broadcom-sta-dkms package.

clefebvre commented 4 years ago

Yes, we found that during QA but we're unable to find out the cause or a solution for it.

During live-boot LMDE installs broadcom-sta-dkms so this should work in live mode as well.... and then during the install live-installer installs it, so it works post-install.

The way this works in LMDE 4 is exactly the way it did in LMDE 3 but for some reason a reboot is needed now that we're on top of Buster..

Jeremy7701 commented 4 years ago

Can I suggest an entry in the LMDE4 Release notes regarding this issue as it prevents some users trialling the live-boot version before an install or upgrade.

Not personally an issue as the laptop in question isn't presently used.

clefebvre commented 4 years ago

Yes. If you can manage to make the adapter work in live session let us know... the driver is installed, I tried to rmmod and modprobe but I wasn't successful.

Jeremy7701 commented 4 years ago

I tried dkms status on both the live-boot and the installed versions. Identical results shown for broadcom-sta I don't understand dkms - except that it appears to be compiling source against the kernel. It appears to be attempting to build the wl driver - tried rmmod and modprobe for wl.

I tried an old Mint 19.2 (MATE) magazine DVD and this also failed to recognise the wifi card on a live-boot, although I didn't try to install it. So this seems to be a very hard problem!