Porteus

Posted: **24 Jan 2022, 17:05**

I have Porteus 5 installed on Lenovo IdeaPad S10e, an old Netbook. Everything seems to work except WiFi. I’ve found dozens of discussions concerning the BCM4312 controller, but they all seem to reference modules that I don’t have, or are in other ways out of date.

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guest@porteus:~$ /sbin/modprobe wl
modprobe: FATAL: Module wl not found in directory /lib/modules/5.12.14-porteus
guest@porteus:~$ /sbin/lspci -knn
…
05:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY [14e4:4315] (rev 01)
	Subsystem: Broadcom Corporation Device [14e4:04b5]
	Kernel modules: ssb

Help? (Fortunately, the built-in 10/100 NIC (Broadcom NetLink BCM5906M) works fine.

Posted: **24 Jan 2022, 18:30**

you have to use lsmod to show if the b43 module is loaded, modprobe or insmod in terminal modules/5.12.14-porteus/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43/b43.ko when you have done lsmod, the driver are not free so into the kernel, maybe your model isn't supported,try if work with the stock driver and report here, there is a slackbuild with other b43 firmware we can build it for.. and network manager work very well if the module and the driver are loaded if you have this software the connection refresh and show the wifi if is ok.

Porteus

BCM4312 on latest Porteus?

BCM4312 on latest Porteus?

BCM4312 on latest Porteus?