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Consider adding broadcom-wl to ISO images

Unfortunately, Wi-Fi doesn't work on my laptop without this package installed and that's the only thing I can use to connect to the Internet because my ISP uses some stupid IPoE with MAC authentication (it only works on my main PC) so Ethernet is not an option. Therefore, I can install Arch via Wi-Fi since they have this package in their ISO but it's not the case with Artix.

Please, consider including this package in next ISO releases.

Re: Consider adding broadcom-wl to ISO images

Reply #1 –
I hope your wish is granted but in the meantime you should be able to install Artix and then chroot into that installation using an Arch live usb and add the required package(s).

From a quick look at https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Broadcom_wireless I think you'd be better off with broadcom-wl-dkms over broadcom-wl. You can download the package directly from an Arch mirror and copy into the chroot then use pacman -U to install it. You'd also need to install dkms.

Or just enable the Arch repos (unsupported) in the chroot and install normally with pacman.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Chroot#Using_chroot
arch-chroot will be simpler if available on the Arch live usb ?

Re: Consider adding broadcom-wl to ISO images

Reply #2 –
I think you should be able to install any extra packages you need in the iso environment, they just won't persist so you'd need to redo it if you rebooted - just download the package, put it on a usb, boot the iso, mount the usb and install with pacman -U.

Re: Consider adding broadcom-wl to ISO images

Reply #3 –
If you use Android, you can plug your phone to your PC via USB, and share the network of your phone. I always do this when I need to install OS with a network card requiring out-of-kernel drivers.