Installing from live-usb, broadcom card

Brosko · 2013-03-23 14:50:20

Hello! I've been reading wiki and googling for a while, but didn't find an exact solution. Here is my story:
I'm trying to install an arch by using medium on usb.
I have a broadcom4312 card, and it doesn't let me configure my network during installation.
I read an article on how to configure a network for my card (b43 or wl). But it seems to me that I need to have an installation of arch completed in order to do that.

What would you advice me to do?

Thanks.

tophattedcoder · 2013-03-23 15:17:24

Try using the brcmsmac module during installation - it's very variable but it works.

Brosko · 2013-03-23 15:21:07

I made modprobe brcmsmac , but it didn't help. iwconfig still doesn't return me a valid interface.

Gusar · 2013-03-23 15:45:37

brcmsmac doesn't support your card. b43 and wl do. For b43, you need b43-firmware from AUR. Download the PKGBUILD and the files it needs (the b43-fwcutter package and http://www.lwfinger.com/b43-firmware/br … 8.tar.bz2) and copy them onto the usb stick. Use them to create the b43-firmware package with makepkg.

Brosko · 2013-03-23 16:19:13

Gusar wrote:

brcmsmac doesn't support your card. b43 and wl do. For b43, you need b43-firmware from AUR. Download the PKGBUILD and the files it needs (the b43-fwcutter package and http://www.lwfinger.com/b43-firmware/br … 8.tar.bz2) and copy them onto the usb stick. Use them to create the b43-firmware package with makepkg.

Hm. Can I really do it during installation phase? I'm not familiar wit Arch, so I'd like to get a response on a instruction.
As far as I understand, I have to do smth like this:
1. Download all I need onto USB stick.
2. Untar it directly to a position somewhere on stick.
3. CD to that dir
4. call "makepkg"
5. ?

Is it all and is it all correct? Aren't there any specific locations I need to put the data to?
I looked into "PKGBUILD" and saw some variable, like pkgdir and srdir.
Where are they pointing to? Is it a position relative to current PKGBUILD-file, or is it defined somewhere else?
And yeah, it requires b43-fwcutter. b43-fwcutter is a separate package. I doubt it's preinstalled in core-live-tumb.

Last edited by Brosko (2013-03-23 16:32:15)

HungGarTiger · 2013-03-23 16:40:33

Brosko wrote:

Is it all and is it all correct? Aren't there any specific locations I need to put the data to?
I looked into "PKGBUILD" and saw some variable, like pkgdir and srdir.
Where are they pointing to? Is it a position relative to current PKGBUILD-file, or is it defined somewhere else?
And yeah, it requires b43-fwcutter. b43-fwcutter is a separate package. I doubt it's preinstalled in core-live-tumb.

I'm not sure how it works during the installation phase, but once you have extacted the foo.tar.gz file and cd to the directory you can just run

makepkg
pacman -U foo.tar.xz

Running the commands from any location is fine, pacman will take care of the rest for you

Last edited by HungGarTiger (2013-03-23 16:41:59)

Brosko · 2013-03-23 16:42:15

HungGarTiger wrote:

Brosko wrote:
Is it all and is it all correct? Aren't there any specific locations I need to put the data to?
I looked into "PKGBUILD" and saw some variable, like pkgdir and srdir.
Where are they pointing to? Is it a position relative to current PKGBUILD-file, or is it defined somewhere else?
And yeah, it requires b43-fwcutter. b43-fwcutter is a separate package. I doubt it's preinstalled in core-live-tumb.
I'm not sure how it works suring the installation phase, but once you have extacted the foo.tar.gz file and cd to the directory you can just run
makepkg
pacman -U foo.tar.xz
Running the commands from any location is fine, pacman will take care of the rest for you

Thanks a lot, I'm going to try installing everything right now.
Hope pacman works during installation phase.

Last edited by Brosko (2013-03-23 16:44:51)

Brosko · 2013-03-24 11:11:35

Came back here with a report.
Everything worked just great for me. I'm already using Arch.
The topic can be closed. Thanks for your replies!

HungGarTiger · 2013-03-24 12:49:29

Brosko wrote:

Came back here with a report.
Everything worked just great for me. I'm already using Arch.
The topic can be closed. Thanks for your replies!

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Installing from live-usb, broadcom card

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