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General Questions • [Software] How to install firmware-b43-installer in Debian 12?

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Hello friends

For a laptop HP Pavilion g4-1387la was installed Debian 12 Desktop

The ethernet and wifi connections are possible.

But when only the WIFI is used (no ethernet cable connected) exists the problem that the internet speed is very slow. I put the same WIFI connection settings according with other laptops in the same LAN, all of them based with other Linux distributions. Of course the ipv4 is unique

The wireless card is as follows (let me know if you need more data - pls indicate me the command execute to share the info):

Code:

lspci -vq | grep -i wireless02:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries BCM4313 802.11bgn Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company BCM4313 802.11bgn Wireless Network Adapter
I had a similar problem about a WIFI connection through PeppermintOS based on Debian according with:

Impossible to do Wifi connection - password never accepted

The point is that theoretically the solution is install:

* firmware-b43-installer
* firmware-b43legacy-installer

Now, according with the 2 following links both appear on the contrib repo

* Package firmware-b43-installer
* Package firmware-b43legacy-installer

Thus the goal is get both packages to be installed. To accomplish this goal was done the following tasks:

In the /etc/apt/sources.list.d directory was executed the nano debian-backports.list command and was added the following line:

Code:

deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-backports main contrib non-free-firmware
Finally was executed the apt update command.

And for complete information, as follows the content of the /etc/apt/sources.list file

Code:

#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 12.8.0 _Bookworm_ - Official amd64 DVD Binary-1 with firmware 20241109-11:05]/ bookworm contrib main non-free-firmwaredeb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm main non-free-firmwaredeb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm main non-free-firmwaredeb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security main non-free-firmwaredeb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security main non-free-firmware# bookworm-updates, to get updates before a point release is made;# see https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html#_updates_and_backportsdeb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm-updates main non-free-firmwaredeb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm-updates main non-free-firmware
Now, I executed the following set of commands (just in case the OS was restarted):

apt install

Code:

root@mjordan-hp:~# apt install firmware-b43-installerReading package lists... DoneBuilding dependency tree... DoneReading state information... DoneE: Unable to locate package firmware-b43-installerroot@mjordan-hp:~# apt install firmware-b43legacy-installerReading package lists... DoneBuilding dependency tree... DoneReading state information... DoneE: Unable to locate package firmware-b43legacy-installerroot@mjordan-hp:~#
apt search

Code:

root@mjordan-hp:~# apt search firmware-b43-installerSorting... DoneFull Text Search... Doneroot@mjordan-hp:~# apt search firmware-b43legacy-installerSorting... DoneFull Text Search... Doneroot@mjordan-hp:~# 
apt search -t bookworm-backports

Code:

root@mjordan-hp:~# apt search -t bookworm-backports firmware-b43-installerSorting... DoneFull Text Search... Doneroot@mjordan-hp:~# apt search -t bookworm-backports firmware-b43legacy-installerSorting... DoneFull Text Search... Doneroot@mjordan-hp:~# 
apt-cache search -t bookworm-backports

Code:

root@mjordan-hp:~# apt-cache search -t bookworm-backports firmware-b43-installerroot@mjordan-hp:~# apt-cache search -t bookworm-backports firmware-b43legacy-installer
apt install -t bookworm-backports

Code:

root@mjordan-hp:~# apt install -t bookworm-backports firmware-b43-installerReading package lists... DoneBuilding dependency tree... DoneReading state information... DoneE: Unable to locate package firmware-b43-installerroot@mjordan-hp:~# apt install -t bookworm-backports firmware-b43legacy-installerReading package lists... DoneBuilding dependency tree... DoneReading state information... DoneE: Unable to locate package firmware-b43legacy-installerroot@mjordan-hp:~# 
BTW was used -t bookworm-backports according with the How to enable Debian 12 Backports repository tutorial and because was declared deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-backports .... in the custom .list file. I mean the bookworm-backports part

Thus so far is not possible install these two packages

How to reach that goal?

Statistics: Posted by manueljordan — 2025-01-11 18:34 — Replies 1 — Views 32



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