Wifi driver failed - Broadcom (14e4:43ba)
I am super new to Trisquel gnu linux, I am trouble installing wifi driver(broadcom BCM43602 -14e4:43ba) on my laptop. According to the https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/drivers/brcm80211, Driver is supported in 3.17+ kernel version. I did try different Linux operating system which took wifi driver automatically but with Trisquel, it won't. I have copied bin(According to the website to /lib/firmware/brcm and restarted. Still, I didn't get any wireless setting to my laptop.
Trisquel 8.0
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> I am trouble installing wifi
> driver(broadcom BCM43602 -14e4:43ba) on my laptop.
That WiFi card doesn't work without proprietary software. Trisquel only
includes free software.[1]
> According to the
> https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/drivers/brcm80211, Driver is
> supported in 3.17+ kernel version.
This refers to the mainline kernel, which includes proprietary software.
Trisquel uses Linux-libre,[2] which contains only free software.
> I did try different Linux operating
> system which took wifi driver automatically
Then the other distro you tried includes non-free software.
I recommend looking into an external WiFi[3] card that does not require
proprietary software.
[1] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
[2] https://www.fsfla.org/ikiwiki/selibre/linux-libre/
[3] https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/penguin-wireless-n-usb-adapter-gnu-linux-tpe-n150usb
It *might* work with openfwwf. Try installing that and restart. If not then yes, replacing the WiFi card with one that doesn't need proprietary junk would be a good idea. Or, if you don't want to open the computer, there are USB ones too. Like https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/penguin-wireless-n-usb-adapter-gnu-linux-tpe-n150usb