This seems fixed in Jessie, see
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=688823
Those drivers are part of the (non-free) broadcom-sta source package.
Cheers,
On 06/08/2014 15:26, OfficialXian . wrote:
> Just forwarding my reply to intrigeri to y'all.
>
> Here's what I did to get the BCM43142 drivers for Kali Linux working.
> <This info is
> from http://www.chokepoint.net/2014/04/installing-broadcom-bcm43142-drivers-on.html
> >
>
> 1. Get driver from Broadcom site
> 2. Untar it
> 3. Get patch file from Mindwerks
> 4. Patch
> 5. Make driver
> 6. Copy wl.ko to /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/net/wireless
> 7. Remove bcma module
> 8. Blacklist bcma
> 9. Insert wl
> 10. Connect to wireless network.
>
> This all worked fine on Kali, and so I took the files and tried it on
> Tails 1.1, did everything up till make, had a hard time with that, I
> don't recall ever getting it to make in Tails properly (I don't know
> much about make so I couldn't do much troubleshooting), so I made it
> in Kali and saved the files, bumped over to Tails, and resumed at step
> 6. I couldn't blacklist bcma module though because the blacklist.conf
> file doesn't exist. After step 9 I could see my wireless networks with
> all their details, but when I try to connect it just loops, always
> failing (on both a WPA2 and open).
>
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 10:50 AM, OfficialXian
> . <official.xian@??? <mailto:official.xian@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> They can be used in Debian, but I'm not sure they're in a specific
> package. I'm out right now but I'll drop another email later with
> a description as to what I did to get it working in Kali.
>
> On Jul 30, 2014 3:26 PM, "intrigeri" <intrigeri@???
> <mailto:intrigeri@boum.org>> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> OfficialXian . wrote (30 Jul 2014 18:57:17 GMT) :
> > Hey guys, in one of the next releases can you include the
> Broadcom
> > BCM43142 wireless/bluetooth drivers?
>
> Are these drivers available in Debian? If so, in what package?
>
> Cheers,
> --
> intrigeri
>
>
>
>
> -Original Message-
> Hey guys, in one of the next releases can you include the Broadcom
> BCM43142 wireless/bluetooth drivers? I don't care about having
> bluetooth, but having wireless would help a great load! It's a
> pain to use my phone's tether, and it takes up my USB port, of
> which I only have 2 :(.
>
> I have tried a few times to make the drivers and load the modules,
> but I've only gotten the wireless to *see* networks. I can see my
> home networks, and I can attempt to join, but it'll just time-out.
> This could be because I **make**'d the driver in another distro
> (Kali) because **make** is messed up in Tails for some reason I
> always get an error.
>
> Thanks!
> ~xian
>
>
>
>
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