On Fri, 11 May 2018 02:05:03 +0000 (UTC) dan pridgeon <[email protected]> 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. Hallo Dan, the default way to non-free firmware during installation is described here: https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware#Firmware_during_the_installation The Presario C700 does not seem that new, that the firmware wouldn't be included in the official non-free archive. Libre Grüße, Florian -- \ \\ \ \ ____| |________ / \ | ILS SONT FOUX | | CES ROMAINS! | \__________________/
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