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And they never paid for drugs… not once!
And they never paid for drugs… not once!
So begins our final transformation… idiocracy
Fucking Broadcom wifi 😤
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That was the specific target vector from what I researched. Everyone else was just collateral.
I believe they found your inhaler and pocket protector
firmware-misc-nonfree
I got - firmware-misc-nonfree is already the newest version (20230210-5).
& for firmware-brcm80211 I got - firmware-brcm80211 is already the newest version (20230210-5).
sudo apt-get install bcmwl-kernel-source
It says unable to locate package, that’s ubuntu? That kind of loops me back around via https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=128386 to https://wiki.debian.org/wl
sorry I read that as wl.ko should not be the list. I need to edit my post haha
Thanks for your reply :-) – I just assumed that would be an issue as I go on to complete step 5 and 6 and still the same thing. I can see the wifi network and attempt to join and it never configures. Fun times
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Are you me? Haha… just installed via Ethernet because it wouldn’t connect to my wifi (which works). It will connect to my phones hotspot but not my home wifi. Installed on an old trash elitebook which I think means non free, so starts my tomorrow adventure
Degrees of a scale 🤦🏻
What a roller coaster… I’m checking back tomorrow!! 😁
OS clouds and proprietary internets might shove another percent or 2 down the rabbit hole
My Surface Pro 4 (my last remaining windows install) is soon to suffer this fate… not the Linux install, but having me just touch it in weird places… for no real apparent reason 😈