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Hi there... I have no acess of any kind to a LAN ... so I have to use WiFi... but my wifi is not detected when I boot into the base iso-runit... I have tried booting into the i3 iso-runit but no luck there either. The current Arch Iso has the wlan0 able to be seen and activated and connect with no issues, same with Anarchy script install iso... but Atrix seems to be lacking the drivers. It is not just you as a test I booted Manjaro LiveIso, ArcoLinux and EndevourOS... all could not see the wifi.

So, any ideas on what I can do for this? I assume I need to install some drivers? I have had problems installing stuff on a live iso as the directories are often different form a hardware install.

Thanks!

Hi there... I have no acess of any kind to a LAN ... so I have to use WiFi... but my wifi is not detected when I boot into the base iso-runit... I have tried booting into the i3 iso-runit but no luck there either. The current Arch Iso has the wlan0 able to be seen and activated and connect with no issues, same with Anarchy script install iso... but Atrix seems to be lacking the drivers. It is not just you as a test I booted Manjaro LiveIso, ArcoLinux and EndevourOS... all could not see the wifi.

So, any ideas on what I can do for this? I assume I need to install some drivers? I have had problems installing stuff on a live iso as the directories are often different form a hardware install.

Try a weekly DE ISO (e.g. LXDE), as those offer convenient helpers for connecting to wireless networks and contain the latest kernel device drivers. If all goes well, you can do a clean base install from there in a terminal.

have you installed linux-firmware?  maybe you need install drivers too - see: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Broadcom_wireless

Still no luck on this...

I tried both the weekly for base install and the LXDE... neither could connect to the wifi and ip link list would return no device..

I downloaded from arch the linux-firmware (https://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/any/linux-firmware/) by clicking on the mirror link on the menu on the right.... I used pacman -U ./filename and it installed, or seemed to.. but I couldn't see any diffidence and as this is a live iso a reboot would reset eveything.

I also downloaded both B4 and B4.classic
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/b43-firmware/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/b43-firmware-classic/

but the pacman -U ./filename command would not work on them....  any idea how I can install those ones?

Any other ideas?

TL;DR

• How do I install the "b43-firmware.tar.gz[/i]" "b43-firmware-classic.tar.gz[/i]" files, as and pacman -U ./filename  would not work
• After I install linux-firmware-20200721.2b823fc-1-any.pkg.tar.zst - Is there anything else I should do like restarting something ro make it active. I can not reboot as I am in a live iso and it will reset.
• Any other suggestions I could try, or information commands I could copy for you to look at?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/pacman
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Makepkg
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_User_Repository

Thanks.. but, of course, I have already read those and can not seem to find out how that can help me. Maybe I did not understand it, the information is pretty dense.

makepkg -si in a directory that is archived from the the b4files atrs. did not do anything.. said "cannot stripbinary required for object file stripping"

I found this thread on the endevour forum with help of duck but I couldn't apply it to my system
https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/asus-pce-ac88-wireless-adapter-not-working/2374

The take away is what I needed to run

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sudo rmmod wl
sudo modprobe brcmfmac

but no luck

isn't makepkg -si how you install source?

Thanks.. but, of course, I have already read those and can not seem to find out how that can help me. Maybe I did not understand it, the information is pretty dense.

Which distro you used before?

if you really need old b43 driver (are you sure about that?), you must first learn, how you can this package create

brcmfmac

your driver should be
https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/drivers/brcm80211#firmware_installation1

without logs we can not find further problem

dmesg     - https://pastebin.com/CaL0cuPF
ip link list - https://pastebin.com/xgxPJ0Ai
lspci         - https://pastebin.com/8krNTNLS
lsusb        - https://pastebin.com/TbC9DDKX

Interesting... ok... thanks a lot for the help from everyone in this thread. I guess as arch gets more mainstream you'll have more people like me turning up : )... oh well.

I have to go pick up the kids and do Dad stuff, but I will look at this tomorrow when I am pretending to work in my office!

Thanks again... (hopefully less spam tomorrow and just a solution post!)

uninstall it (pacman -R or -Rcs broadcom-wl), reboot and after reboot

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modprobe brcmfmac

reboot and send new lsmod and dmesg logs

I already tried these commands

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sudo rmmod wl
sudo modprobe brcmfmac
sudo sv restart NetworkManager

but evey time you reboot it resets as it is a live iso.. not an actual install? Or is there enough in the live iso for me to install without the net at all? Then once I have a base system booted I can do all this kind of stuff?

WHAT??  why don't you wrote it right at the beginning that you're slapping in live ISO? incredibly!!
you don't have a system installed  ::)  of course live iso will be resets.... it depends on which ISO you use. normally it should be possible to install without the internet

why do you always want to go the hardest way?

so easy to install new system:
download ISO with some Desktop Enviroment
booting live ISO
I'll see if everything works, which driver are needed, etc.
I'll set up a network
I will install a new system (using instalator)
I will set up a new system (using wiki archlinux's and artix's wiki)
reboot it to a new system...done

so easy!  8)
no, we will be slapping on the spot for a week due to the unset wifi card.  ::)  ;)

wait maybe I didn't understand.. are you saying to install it with out internet and then get the wifi working on a live system?

artix-cinnamon-runit-20200210-x86_64.iso
artix-lxde-runit-20200210-x86_64.iso
artix-lxqt-runit-20200211-x86_64.iso
artix-mate-runit-20200210-x86_64.iso

I've tested all of these now... none of them have working networking for me.

Don't know for sure in this instance, but if you need extra drivers in the ISO you might be able install them in the ISO, put the package binary on another USB, mount it and use pacman -U or even unpack it and stick them in the right dir yourself, and then probably manually run # depmod -a  but obviously they won't be there again if you reboot it, you're only installing to the ISO ramdisk. Perhaps you need extra firmware for Broadcom too.

i don't know, if i want help you, if you ignore me :D :D

but your driver should be brcmfmac and firmware is in  linux-firmware  8)  we need just verify it. but you want play unconditionally  with b43 :D

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rfkill list | grep Wireless

I pretty much have a working solution now,

OK, so forum's admin please mark this topic as SOLVED.

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$ sudo pacman --cachedir=/path/to/dir -Sw base base-devel plus any other stuff

would I need to chown into /mnt before I do that so it is installing into the "new" system and stuff?

Use basestrap which is part of artools-base package, installed on all live iso.
It is the equivalent to arch's pacstrap.

How do I use bootstrap to install a base system without using the internet?

To answer, it will be my last, basestrap requires naturally an internet connection.

How can you install a minimal instillation with no internet