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west sequoia Mar 16, 2024, 5:53 PM

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how do I install firmwareb43 from desktop? I've tried several things and mint isn't happy with them

uneven river Mar 16, 2024, 5:57 PM

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west sequoia how do I install firmwareb43 from desktop? I've tried several things and mint is...

What Mint version?

west sequoia Mar 16, 2024, 5:57 PM

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23

uneven river Mar 16, 2024, 5:57 PM

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Post results from terminal for lspci -nnk | grep -iA3 net

west sequoia Mar 16, 2024, 5:58 PM

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sec

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the machine i'm trying to install on does not have internet access, taht is the problem so i was trying to install firmware b43 package

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it sees my broadcom adapter

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kernel driver bcma-pci-bridge

uneven river Mar 16, 2024, 6:01 PM

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Can you use USB tethering to a smart phone?

west sequoia Mar 16, 2024, 6:02 PM

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pc doesnt have blue tooth but I can take a pic though

uneven river Mar 16, 2024, 6:02 PM

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Use USB tether to a smart phone so that computer has internet

west sequoia Mar 16, 2024, 6:03 PM

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oh derp

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just a sec

uneven river Mar 16, 2024, 6:04 PM

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If you get internet to it, in terminal sudo apt update && sudo apt install firmware-b43-installer

west sequoia Mar 16, 2024, 6:05 PM

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kk i'm going to work on that, will ping again when done

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yeah it's not seeing the phone, it sees the usb port but not the phone

uneven river Mar 16, 2024, 6:16 PM

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Did you go into phone settings and enable the USB tether?

west sequoia Mar 16, 2024, 6:17 PM

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yes

uneven river Mar 16, 2024, 6:17 PM

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Run in terminal dmesg | grep firm

west sequoia Mar 16, 2024, 6:18 PM

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okay enabling spec barrier for firmware

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specter v2

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lemme try again

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got it, it was the freaking usb cable that was the prob

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that was annoying lol

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I think I got it from here, sorry I wasted your time, if i run into trouble i'll just ask in small questions

uneven river Mar 16, 2024, 6:28 PM

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Good that USB tethering works, it is easier than doing it manually

west sequoia Mar 16, 2024, 6:43 PM

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Just fyi, I got a "no klass support" message

uneven river Mar 16, 2024, 6:47 PM

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Not sure what that would mean

west sequoia Mar 16, 2024, 6:47 PM

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he problem is not the DNS nameserver. If you read the discussion on bugzilla link, the problem is a missing or out-of-date GPG key in one of your repositories. If you update your system using dnf (sudo dnf upgrade), you’ll probably see that dnf is able to handle this situation, while GNOME Software is not.

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not sure if that applies

uneven river Mar 16, 2024, 6:48 PM

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That would be for Fedora

west sequoia Mar 16, 2024, 6:48 PM

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okay

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So there is a fedora key in my registry? weird

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probably doesn' mean that

uneven river Mar 16, 2024, 6:49 PM

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sudo apt update

west sequoia Mar 16, 2024, 6:49 PM

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okay

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Ign:1 cdrom://Linux Mint 21.3 Virginia - Release amd64 20240109 jammy InRelease
Err:2 cdrom://Linux Mint 21.3 Virginia - Release amd64 20240109 jammy Release
Please use apt-cdrom to make this CD-ROM recognized by APT. apt-get update cannot be used to add new CD-ROMs
Hit:3 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security InRelease
Ign:4 http://packages.linuxmint.com virginia InRelease
Hit:5 http://packages.linuxmint.com virginia Release
Hit:6 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy InRelease
Get:8 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates InRelease [119 kB]
Hit:9 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-backports InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
E: The repository 'cdrom://Linux Mint 21.3 Virginia - Release amd64 20240109 jammy Release' does not have a Release file.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.

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i'll try to install the package again

uneven river Mar 16, 2024, 6:53 PM

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Go into Software Sources program

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Click Additional Repositories and disable CD_ROM entry

west sequoia Mar 16, 2024, 6:54 PM

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okay

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okay that worked, it all installed and the wi fi works now yay!

uneven river Mar 16, 2024, 6:57 PM

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The CD-ROM entry is supposed to be disabled on an install

west sequoia Mar 16, 2024, 6:58 PM

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that makes sense

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thanks for your help Jeremy

uneven river Mar 16, 2024, 6:59 PM

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Good to see that it works now

west sequoia Mar 16, 2024, 6:59 PM

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yep

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thanks again I really appreciate it

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I used to use linux 25 years ago but i've forgotten everything, but mint seems really easy to deal with. you just have to know the basic terminal commands. things have definitely come a long way

uneven river Mar 16, 2024, 7:09 PM

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I have been using Mint for just over 10 years. Been a forums moderator on Mint forums and ubuntuforums.org for 8 years

west sequoia Mar 16, 2024, 7:10 PM

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Wow, I didnt' realize Mint was around for so long, I might have gone that way sooner. I really want to get away from windows.

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Too much advertising and spyware

uneven river Mar 16, 2024, 7:12 PM

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First Mint release was in August 2006

west sequoia Mar 16, 2024, 7:12 PM

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So it is a very mature distro and you can tell, it's very polished

odd shell Mar 16, 2024, 7:12 PM

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west sequoia I used to use linux 25 years ago but i've forgotten everything, but mint seems r...

if u like command line stuff, see #1050504228029874206 message

west sequoia Mar 16, 2024, 7:13 PM

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oh man, thank you so much that is great!!

odd shell Mar 16, 2024, 7:13 PM

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if not, u can just point n click these days

west sequoia Mar 16, 2024, 7:14 PM

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I like to use both really

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i like the terminal though

odd shell Mar 16, 2024, 7:15 PM

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ie - fixing ur Wifi could have been as easy as picking a higher kernel version in "update manager" (the shield icon in the tray) and clicking the view menu

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(u'd still have needed to use Ethernet or tether smartphone to get the new kernel)

west sequoia Mar 16, 2024, 7:16 PM

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sure, that makes sense, the update manager makes life so easy

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i was surprised that my cable was the problem, reminds me of asking people ages ago if the PC was plugged in lol

uneven river Mar 16, 2024, 7:18 PM

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What result from terminal for lspci -nnk | grep -iA3 14e4

west sequoia Mar 16, 2024, 7:18 PM

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just a sec

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7:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries BCM4360 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter [14e4:43a0] (rev 03)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. BCM4360 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter [1043:85df]
Kernel driver in use: wl
Kernel modules: bcma, wl

uneven river Mar 16, 2024, 7:19 PM

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That one shouldn't have needed the firmware, just Secure Boot disabled and bcmwl-kernel-source

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