I just installed EndeavourOS on my old DELL Vostro 1520 but Broadcom BCM4312 Wi-Fi isn’t working
I entered command…
$ lspci -k
0e:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Wireless 1397 WLAN Mini-Card
Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge
Kernel modules: ssb, wl
after some googling, I tried installing “b43-fwcutter” as this featured in a lot of the hits,
$ sudo pacman -S b43-fwcutter
but it was already installed…
so I tried to install another driver that I found in my google results…
$ sudo pacman -S firmware-b43-installer
but didn’t work, got following result…
[hugh@DELL-Vostro-EndeavourOS ~]$ sudo pacman -S firmware-b43-installer
[sudo] password for hugh:
error: target not found: firmware-b43-installer
[hugh@DELL-Vostro-EndeavourOS ~]$
Then I saw what may be a possible solution here…
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1534362#p1534362
although involves some commands I’m no familiar with, but I thought I would give it a try…
the first step is …
$ wget https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/b4/b43-firmware/b43-firmware.tar.gz
but this didn’t work, as I got following result…
[hugh@DELL-Vostro-EndeavourOS Downloads]$ wget https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/b4/b43-firmware/b43-firmware.tar.gz
--2019-08-04 20:28:07-- https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/b4/b43-firmware/b43-firmware.tar.gz
Loaded CA certificate '/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt'
Resolving aur.archlinux.org (aur.archlinux.org)... 5.9.250.164, 2a01:4f8:160:3033::2
Connecting to aur.archlinux.org (aur.archlinux.org)|5.9.250.164|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
2019-08-04 20:28:08 ERROR 404: Not Found.
[hugh@DELL-Vostro-EndeavourOS Downloads]$
perhaps the URL is not correct, but I’m no expert in these things.
I’m not sure of best way to fix this to be honest. Any help or advice would be appreciated.
