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Installing Broadcom Wireless Driver Offline

pinguyos:

Pinguy OS comes with many Wifi drivers pre-installed, but due to the way some Broadcom wireless drivers need to be installed they can’t be pre-packaged into the distro. This is due to it recompiling the kernel. If it was pre-installed you would never be able to activate the driver.

This is a Catch-22 for many people. You need to be online to install the driver but you want to get online to install your wireless card.

Thankfully there is a way to download the driver on a computer thats online then copy it to your Pinguy OS system to install the driver.

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  • 1 year ago > pinguyos
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