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Hi.
A friend of mine bought a mini pc but lspci does not show any information about the wifi module, I told him he will send me the information in dmesg and this is part of what says.

brcmfmac: brcmf_fw_alloc_request: using brcm/brcmfmac43455-sdio for chip BCM4345/6
usbcore: registered new interface driver brcmfmac
brcmfmac mmc11: Direct firmware load for brcm/brcmfmac43455-sdio.txt failed with error -2
brcmfmac: brcmf_sdio_htclk: HT Avail timeout (1000000): clkctl 0x50

This is the minipc
https://www.amazon.com/Z83-F-PC-X5-Z835 ... B07BF6K7RH
He was testing in bionicpup
I would like offer some driver whaterver puppy version, tahr, xenialpup, bionicpup no matter so I hope someone can help us.
Sailing in google found this http://davidegironi.blogspot.com/2019/1 ... z8350.html
Attach pdiag.
cheers.

Check the Boot Manager of the distro you are mainly interested in for a possible brcm module.

Menu>System>Boot Manager>Modules>Add New Module will give you a list.

See also here for an explanation of Broadcom wireless Linux compatibility and Kernel and firmware requirements:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Broadcom_wireless

and supported chips:

https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/use ... rted_chips

I think this driver needed: http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/pe ... 23_amd.pet
Install by clicking on it in ROXFiler.
Will need to blacklist (or skiplist) b43, bcma, brcmsmac, ssb (to skiplist - edit /etc/rc.d/MODULESCONFIG at about line 24, inserting module names with a space either side). Then reboot, choosing save.

vtpup, ozsouth thank you, will check and report later ok