ozsouth wrote:@belham2 - I've made Broadcomm wireless drivers for my 2 newest kernels - can't test them though.
See http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 05#1009905
Hi Ozsouth!
I saw (your post in the other thread) early this morning and am going to download the 64bit & give it a go tonight on that HP laptop. Not sure if it matters though, as Peebee said the main wl.ko module or something is not included in this Bionic edition because it is beta. Need that wl,ko to load first, I think, so that wireless is recognized as being a option with any/all broadcom wifi chipsets. Once that wl.ko is loaded, maybe then yours kicks in? I don't know. Anyhow---BIG THANK YOU for making the two .pets for broadcom-STA.
I might be misunderstanding things, but either way when I get off work, going to download it and give it a go on the laptop.
Thanks again!
[Update, Tuesday, 13 Nov: I installed your 64-bit ubuntu broadcom-STA.pet into phil's Bionic64, but no luck. I also navigated to the /lib/modules/4.18.15/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ to make sure the .pet installed the "wl.ko" correctly, and it did. One thing to note is that when I did boot with your .pet installed, at least for the first time bionicpup64 recognized there was a wireless there in the laptop. But it was hopeless in determining what kind or even if it was broadcom, yet Puppy Network Wizard gave an option (for the first time) that there is a pci wireless on the laptop. I don't know if we need more drivers, or different drivers. When going through Puppy Network Wizard, everything I tried kept throwing back this:
Error!
Failed to raise interface wlan0 (despite Puppy Wizard seeing a PCI wireless interface)
Failed command was: ifconfig wlan0 up
Error returned was: ifconfig SCIOCSIFFLAGS: No error information
Thanks again, ozsouth for giving this a go....looks like I'll have to wait for whenever the bionic-Beta edition becomes the "not" beta edition anymore & then hope to get it working with the gurus help. Otherwise, back to the the older pups and stay away from these new kernels & pups of the past 12 months, or go with Slackware which weirdly has no problems with the HP broadcom laptop