Broadcom Wi-Fi not working on MX Linux 23.6 (HP Mini with Intel Atom)

[sudo_crown]

Hi everyone,

I'm running MX Linux 23.6 (32-bit, _386) on an HP Mini laptop with an Intel Atom processor and 2 GB of RAM. I'm having trouble getting the Broadcom Wi-Fi adapter to work — the system doesn't detect any available wireless networks.

What I've tried:

Verified that the laptop has a Broadcom Wi-Fi adapter using lspci.

Installed the broadcom-sta-dkms package using MX Package Installer and also via terminal:

sudo apt update

sudo apt install broadcom-sta-dkms

sudo modprobe wl

Rebooted the system — still no Wi-Fi networks show up.

Tried b43-fwcutter in case it's an older Broadcom chip — no success.

I’m currently using USB tethering through my phone to access the internet on the laptop.

Output of lspci | grep -i broadcom:

(Insert your actual output here)

My goal:

To get the Broadcom Wi-Fi working properly on MX Linux without relying on USB tethering. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated, especially from anyone who has dealt with Broadcom issues on older 32-bit hardware.

Thanks in advance!

[kmathern]

It would be helpful if would post the QSI report.


There's a dead link in the post install script of the firmware-b43-installer package, which is used along with b43-fwcutter to install the wl firmware. The firmware-b43-installer package won't finish installing because of the deadlink. The URL has been fixed in the sid version of the b43-fwcutter source.
https://sources.debian.org/src/b43-fwcu ... tinst/#L22

The proper fix would be to request an update of the b43-fwcutter packages.


If you don't want to wait for that, the sed command below will update the URL in firmware-b43-installer's post install script:

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sudo sed -i 's URL="https://www.lwfinger.com/b43-firmware/${DOWNLOAD}" URL="https://github.com/minios-linux/b43-firmware/releases/download/b43-firmware/${DOWNLOAD}" ' /var/lib/dpkg/info/firmware-b43-installer.postinst

Then I think you can run the postinst script again, it should download the firmware tarball (broadcom-wl-6.30.163.46.tar.bz2) and extract & install it.

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sudo  /var/lib/dpkg/info/firmware-b43-installer.postinst

[Stevo]

I've backported it for the MX repos: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fkbcJH ... sp=sharing

Also the zip here for 24 hours. It will soon be in the main repositories.

https://wormhole.app/OX3j1J#XPpyu8XiRj-4_9icSmUwiQ

[srggelinas]

Look like the same than this post
viewtopic.php?t=82045&start=20

fix temporary with apt-mark hold on kernel after a back timeshift

after later update wifi come back and unhold it.

But problem appear again and I put hold until....

[Eadwine Rose]

Other topic locked, @sudo_crown one topic per issue please, thank you.

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