Tips: How to get WiFi (Broadcom 43XX cards) in Debian and derivatives without internet connection [Update]

Hi friends of DesdeLinuxgreets you elruiz1993 with a quick trick that will save us a lot of trouble. Raise your hand who has a card Broadcom that has not been instantly recognized by the system and you have no way to connect to a network cable and fix it.

Looking for the solution to my dilemma (Install the SolusOS Alpha 5, it goes like a shot and is beautiful to look at, it includes drivers for Broadcom but not for my 4311) I came across the solution in the Let's Use Linux Blog (the solution was for Ubuntu but it worked without problems), so I wanted to share it (paste the lines without quotes):

1-. Download this archive.
2-. Unzip it (either graphically or from Terminal) where you like.
3-. We navigate to the folder (with Terminal) with "Cd / path / to / the / folder" (replace with the path where you unzipped it, in case you don't know, drag the folder to Terminal and it will drop it automatically).
We install the .deb file:

sudo dpkg -i b43-fwcutter_011-1_i386.deb

We are executing the following lines (one at a time):

tar xfvj broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.tar.bz2
sudo b43-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o
sudo b43-fwcutter --unsupported -w /lib/firmware broadcom-wl- 4.150.10.5/driver/wl_apsta_mimo.o

We connect to the corresponding network (In my case it was not necessary to restart, just click on the network icon). We update the system:

sudo apt-get update && sudo aptitude dist-upgrade

We laugh at the fact that we use the Terminal and compile our drivers without getting messy 🙂

Now it only remains to enjoy the world of GNU / Linux and the network of networks with total comfort. Definitely, there is no more rewarding feeling than making your system work without complicating your life 🙂

Happy browsing everyone 🙂

PD: Instructions are in the package, but the .deb package has the wrong name (it says "Sudo dpkg -i b43-fwcutter_011-4_i386.deb" and must be "Sudo dpkg -i b43-fwcutter_011-1_i386.deb")

 UPDATE: Out of curiosity, I tried to install it on Fedora (skipping the step of installing the .deb) and it worked flawlessly, so I guess it doesn't matter which distro you use as long as you have the package installed b43-fwcutter. Fedora, from version 16 has the package installed as standard b43-fwcutter next to the package b43-openwwf (which provides you with an Internet connection but it never worked well for me) so they uninstall it and continue from step 5 (unzip and copy).

Image taken from this link.