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Debian Bullseye Broadcom Wl Wi-fi Driver Offline Installation – Step-by-step

GNU/Linux Debian Bullseye Installing Broadcom Wl WiFi Driver Offline

Hi! The Tutorial shows you Step-by-Step How to Download and Install Broadcom Wl Wireless Driver without Internet Access in Debian Bullseye 11.x 64-bit GNU/Linux.

First, to Install Broadcom Wl Driver in Debian Bullseye you simply need any Online Computer with a Browser and a USB Stick to Copy the downloaded Packages.

But if you dispose of an Android Mobile Phone with Internet Acces, then an Easier Solution should be of using it! See: Internet Connection USB Tethering Guide.

Especially relevant, the Debian Bullseye broadcom-wl Driver Supports the following Broadcom Wireless Chipsets:

• BCM4311
• BCM4312
• BCM4313
• BCM4321
• BCM4322
• BCM4331
• BCM4352
• BCM4360
• BCM43142
• BCM43224
• BCM43225
• BCM43227
• BCM43228

1. Getting Wifi Card Info

Then to Find Wireless Adapter Info
For the PCI/PCIe internal Adapters simply run the Command:

The grep Command refine the result following the matching Keyword.
And in the Output you’ll easily See the Card’s Manufacturer and Model:

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How to Install WiFi driver for Broadcom BCM43142 WiFi device in GNU/Linux Distros

Getting proprietary WiFi drivers to work in GNU/Linux distros can be a pain sometimes. This time we’re going to deal with such a proprietary driver for the Broadcom BCM43142 WiFi device. Let’s take a look at how to install WiFi driver for Broadcom BCM43142 WiFi device in popular GNU/Linux distros such as Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora and Arch Linux. First of all let’s make sure we’re having the Broadcom BCM43142 WiFi device. For that let’s make use of the lspci command as follows:

If you are having the Broadcom BCM43142 WiFi device then you will get an output somewhat like follows:

0d:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Limited BCM43142 802.11b/g/n [14e4:4365] (rev 01)

If you get the above output then we are good to continue.

How to install WiFi driver for Broadcom BCM43142 in Debian and Debian-based distros like Ubuntu

sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install broadcom-sta-dkms

The advantage of using a dkms driver is that you don’t need to manually update the driver everytime you upgrade your kernel!

Dynamic Kernel Module Support (DKMS) is a program/framework that enables generating Linux kernel modules whose sources generally reside outside the kernel source tree. The concept is to have DKMS modules automatically rebuilt when a new kernel is installed.
– Wikipedia

How to install WiFi driver for Broadcom BCM43142 WiFi device in Fedora

sudo dnf update sudo dnf install https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm https://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm sudo dnf update && sudo dnf install kmod-wl

How to install WiFi driver for Broadcom BCM43142 WiFi device in Arch Linux

sudo pacman -S broadcom-wl-dkms

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22 thoughts on “ How to Install WiFi driver for Broadcom BCM43142 WiFi device in GNU/Linux Distros ”

Hai, I am using HP 250 G4 laptop in which I installed Ubuntu. But, my wifi adapter is missing.
Tried for two days resolving the issue myself searching the internet but failed.
The commands given by you worked finally. Now I able to use wifi.
Thank you very much.

Ok. I don’t want to be rude nor insulting…..but has no one considered, that if you’re able to UPDATE and INSTALL anything then you’re ALREADY CONNECTED? and thus activating the wifi is not much of an issue? What about when you CANNOT CONNECT to your wifi?…how are you supposed to “apt-get” ANYTHING!? I do wish that sometimes the folks who write articles would be more considerate of the newbie who is not familiar with Linux! Is there an article where someone can find out how to install this if they DON’T have wifi!?

This procedure fixed my problem so I consider it a godsend. I guess they did forget to say plug in an ethernet cable and do the apt-get, but very few people wouldn’t know to do that.

I’ve just tried this with the trial version of Ubunto 19.10 (running a live session from a USB stick drive) and it didn’t work. I followed the instruction to type: lspci -nn | grep -i network and it came back with this result: 02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Limited BCM43142 802.11b/g/n [14e4:4365] (rev 01) However after typing: sudo apt-get update
followed by: sudo apt-get install broadcom-sta-dkms
.
.. I got the following results: Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
E: Unable to locate package broadcom-sta-dkms Please can you advise if there is any remedy for this?

Unfortunately it didn’t solve my problem. I’m trying to use WiFi on a macbook white 2008 with Linux Mint 20 Xfce. But it’s irritating. have tried many ways of solution and nothing happens.

Just in case, i’m using a MacBook White 2008, Linux Mint 20 Xfce. Broadcom BCM43142 WiFi device and newest version (6.30.223.271-12) installed. i guess maybe the kernel version could be the problem. What do you think?

Most laptops and desktops have wired ethernet connector.
Else use different computer to download the *.deb file.

# To know which package to download from kali repository
uname -rv (# Gives kernel version and linux version) # For (eg. 5.7.0-kali1-amd64 Debian 5.7.6-1kali2) download these
linux-kbuild-5.7_5.7.6-1kali2_amd64.deb
linux-headers-5.7.0-kali1-common_5.7.6-1kali2_all.deb
linux-headers-5.7.0-kali1-amd64_5.7.6-1kali2_amd64.deb # You can download the packages manually by navigating on any browser to
http://http.kali.org/kali/pool/main/l/linux # Install downloaded packages in correct order
sudo dpkg -i linux-kbuild-5.7_5.7.6-1kali2_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i linux-headers-5.7.0-kali1-common_5.7.6-1kali2_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i linux-headers-5.7.0-kali1-amd64_5.7.6-1kali2_amd64.deb # Download and install dkms package (Google it)
sudo dpkg -i dkms_2.6.1-4_all.deb # Download and install broaddcom-sta-dkms package
sudo dpkg -i broadcom-sta-dkms_6.30.223.271-14_all.deb # Run the driver
sudo modprobe -r b44 b43 b43legacy ssb brcmsmac bcma sudo modprobe wl # Done…..

It has been useful to me. I did the first connection through usb with the iphone hotspot. Worked from the box in Debian 10.

I’m with you. I’m trying to install Manjaro on an old Toshiba Satellite that doesn’t have an ethernet port. How do I get the drivers on?

bro, you guys are the best and the only website that knows how to explain in a easy way how to configure this wifi shit! i love you for ever, going to make a video on youtube explaining how to configure this BCM43142 on fedora that is a pain in the ass, i have been here for 4 hours and wishing i found you earlier. thanks a lot

The assumption is that you have a wired connection to the network (a physical ethernet cable connecting the computer to the router).

Hi thank you for this very useful howto. I would mention that (for Ubuntu based distros at least) one has to install also the correct kernel headers. Under Ubuntu (I have elementary OS which is Ubuntu based) one can find the kernel version with uname -r and then install the headers with sudo apt install linux-headers-5.15.0-58-generic (replace 5.15.0-58-generic with your uname -r output).

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Broadcom BCM4311, BCM4312, BCM4313, BCM4321, BCM4322, BCM43224, BCM43225, BCM43227, BCM43228, BCM43142, BCM4331, BCM4352, BCM4360 devices (wl)

This page describes how to enable support for WiFi devices based on Broadcom wireless LAN chips, using the vendor driver on Debian systems.

The proprietary Broadcom wireless LAN driver (wl, aka broadcom-sta) provides support for some Broadcom-based PCI/PCIe hardware. It includes a binary-only component targeted for the x86 or x86-64 architecture. Supported devices are listed at the end of this page.

Add a «non-free» component to /etc/apt/sources.list for your Debian version, for example:

# Debian 9 "Stretch" deb http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch-backports main contrib non-free

# Debian 10 "Buster" deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-backports main contrib non-free

# Debian 11 "Bullseye" deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye contrib non-free

# apt-get update # apt-get install linux-image-$(uname -r|sed 's,[^-]*-[^-]*-,,') linux-headers-$(uname -r|sed 's,[^-]*-[^-]*-,,') broadcom-sta-dkms

# apt-get install -f # dpkg-reconfigure broadcom-sta-dkms

# find /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/updates

# modprobe -r b44 b43 b43legacy ssb brcmsmac bcma

Switch between wl/OSS drivers

#!/bin/sh WIFI=$(find /sys/class/net -follow -maxdepth 2 -name wireless 2>/dev/null|cut -d / -f 5|head -1) echo ip link set $WIFI down ip link set $WIFI down >/dev/null 2>&1 modprobe -r wl brcmsmac modprobe -r cfg80211 brcmsmac cordic brcmutil bcma if [ "$1" = "wl" ]; then modprobe wl else modprobe brcmsmac fi sleep 0.1 WIFI=$(find /sys/class/net -follow -maxdepth 2 -name wireless 2>/dev/null|cut -d / -f 5|head -1) echo ip link set $WIFI up ip link set $WIFI up >/dev/null 2>&1

Known Issues

• The Sonics Silicon Backplane driver (ssb) conflicts with the wl driver (545388).
  • b44, b43, b43legacy and ssb are blacklisted by default as of broadcom-sta 5.10.91.9.3-3 (brcm80211 and brcmsmac since 5.100.82.38-1, 5.100.82.38-2 respectively).
  • This prevents use of any Ethernet device supported by b44.
  • iwconfig(8) (e.g. iwconfig wlan0 power off)
  • laptop-mode-tools: set WIRELESS_BATT_POWER_SAVING=0 within /etc/laptop-mode/conf.d/wireless-power.conf

  See bugs reported on this package in the Debian Bug Tracking System.

  Supported Devices

  Version 6.30.223.271-5

  This driver is packaged for the Debian 9 «Stretch» release as broadcom-sta-dkms.

  • Broadcom BCM4311 (PCI IDs 14e4:4311, 14e4:4312)
  • Broadcom BCM4312 (PCI ID 14e4:4315)
  • Broadcom BCM4313 (PCI ID 14e4:4727)
  • Broadcom BCM4321 (PCI IDs 14e4:4328, 14e4:4329, 14e4:432a)
  • Broadcom BCM4322 (PCI IDs 14e4:432b, 14e4:432c, 14e4:432d)
  • Broadcom BCM43224 (PCI IDs 14e4:0576, 14e4:4353)
  • Broadcom BCM43225 (PCI ID 14e4:4357)
  • Broadcom BCM43227 (PCI ID 14e4:4358)
  • Broadcom BCM43228 (PCI ID 14e4:4359)
  • Broadcom BCM43142 (PCI ID 14e4:4365)
  • Broadcom BCM4331 (PCI ID 14e4:4331)
  • Broadcom BCM4352 (PCI ID 14e4:43b1)
  • Broadcom BCM4360 (PCI IDs 14e4:43a0, 14e4:4360)

  See Also

  • bcm43xx — Broadcom 43xx wireless devices
  • brcm80211 — Broadcom BCM4313, BCM43224, BCM43225 devices
  • How to use a WiFi interface
  • NDISwrapper

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