Want to install Debian, no ethernet port, God help me with Broadcom. >Sup Forums: oh just get the packages and feed them to the netinstaller Doesn't work. >Sup Forums: oh just get the non-free image Doesn't have the drivers. >Sup Forums: oh just install the non-free image and then dpkg in the packages Half of the dependencies are missing, like gcc. I had to follow the trail of breadcrumbs and shuttle over fifteen more packages. >Sup Forums: that worked right? NO APPARENTLY I NEED TO FUCKING UPDATE THE KERNEL TOO
So fuck Debian. I've paid my dues. What's a halfway respectable distro that doesn't require this much of a ballache to get online?
Easton Ward
What broadcom is it? You tried b43-fwcutter I'm assuming?
Bentley Brooks
use a USB ethernet adapter if you're that stupid
Hudson Wood
The package recommended by the Debian site is "not supported by b43-fwcutter."
Fuck you, it's not "stupid." It's asinine. It is not okay to be asked to update the kernel by shuttling things around on a USB drive when I've already picked the non-free image.
Noah Bennett
broadcom-sta-dkms in non-free repo dkms in free repo enjoy
Jose Ross
That's exactly what I did. Started with the dkms package. I was missing three dependencies: make, patch and gcc. Do you know how many more dependencies there are down the gcc rabbit hole? About a dozen. So I installed them all manually, then dpkg, then broadcom-sta-dkms.
End result? "Oh sorry you've not got the right kernel version."
No. That's not okay.
David Bennett
*all manually, then dkms, then broadcom Sorry, too much dpkg tonight.
Justin Edwards
Also I forgot to answer your first question. BCM4312
Ryan Nguyen
broadcom lmao its the poorest of the poor chips why even bother just remove the shitty broadcom card and put in a $7 atheros if you want to use debian so badly
Matthew Gomez
you should be able to get the firmware, do the fwcutter thing into /lib/firmware, and be running on b43 without compiling or anything
David Lopez
>be running on b43 Why am I only finding ways to even acquire b43 (not in /lib/firmware) on some Ubuntu help site linking to openwrt.org?!
No. This stops here. This is ridiculous.
Is there a half-decent distro I can get which doesn't require this many hoops to be jumped, or should I just install Ubuntu and add Sup Forums to my hosts file?
Grayson Lewis
>No. That's not okay. You are correct. No one should defend what you've had to put up with.
Daniel Miller
I used to be like you. Then I found Fedora.
Thomas Reyes
come over to the BunsenLabs (debian with some shit thrown over it) side
Easton Young
I just installed BL.
I'm back to not being able to install dkms because of missing dependencies.
Brayden Diaz
Are you retarded? You installed a stability oriented distro with a old kernel on a very new laptop. No fucking shit it'll be missing drivers. Go install fedora and fuck off.
Mason Perry
Manjaro has wireless working out of the box :^)
James Howard
You can't "no shit" missing proprietary drivers when using an image specifically made to include non-free proprietary drivers.
But fine, they weren't there. No problem. I got them myself, shuttled them over. Realized how many dependencies I needed to fulfill, shuttled those packages over too. When I'm getting stuff manually for the exact release version that I'm running, yes, they HAVE to work. After what I've done it is not okay to still fall through.
Gabriel Carter
but you've learned a valuable lesson, broadcom is trash
Asher Johnson
was this one of the reasons why ubuntu was conceived?
Nicholas Evans
I knew that going in. First line: >Want to install Debian, no ethernet port, God help me with Broadcom.
But I've reached the point where this stopped being solely Broadcom's shit.
Anyway fuck it, a couple people have said Fedora so that's where this train is heading.
Christian Bell
Proprietary or not they're still old you cunt. old drivers dont work with new hardware, it's not fucking rocket science.
Hunter Richardson
>Fedora I'll be expecting another thread with you bitching about mp3 files not working then.
Lincoln Brooks
ooooor... ubuntu net install
Benjamin Gonzalez
Oh so because they're old, that's why they're specifically said to work with the chipset?
>Broadcom STA is a binary-only device driver to support the following IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n wireless network cards: BCM4311-, BCM4312-, BCM4313-, BCM4321-, BCM4322-, BCM43142-, BCM43224-, BCM43225-, BCM43227-, BCM43228-, BCM4331-, BCM4360-, and BCM4352-based hardware.
On the download page, for the appropriate release, right off of debian.org
That's not "old." That's "this is what you use for the version you've selected."
If the only thing you know how to do is be wrong, go volunteer some time to the Debian crew. Evidently they love taking on people of your mental caliber.
Jace Moore
Arch linux to me is very similar to debian minimal install. If you want that kind of experience it's a good choice, otherwise Fedora. Both work on most hardware.
I've used both extensively and can recommend them without regret.
Ryan Rogers
I was hoping for halfway respectable.
I'll bitch if it claims to be possible two or three and yet isn't.
Bentley Diaz
Linux is not for you. I reccomend windows 10
Mason Taylor
It's not that hard to get working. He's just buttmad because he loves debian so much.
Camden Russell
Hey Pajeet, master of English spelling, are you mentally retarded because you came from mixed jizz in your whore mother's pussy? Go tell someone else to install Windows so you can call them about a wirus. You're a waste of the spices you blow out your ass on the side of the road.
Jackson Myers
I'm white. Your room temperature IQ is too low to install an OS. Buy a new ultrabook with windows 10 installed.
Christian Adams
>Want to install Debian lmfao, just use ubuntu
Carter Garcia
>BunsenLabs How good is BunsenLabs Linux?
I'm on Debian Jessie (stable) + XFCE and it's so comfy and stable, it just works
BunsenLabs is based on Jessie so that's good, the developers are sane
Also the screenshots on their site look great, I like the minimal sophisticated look, the developers have taste (unlike the mint and ubuntu devs)
But how easy is to install. Debian Jessie + XFCE is install and forget, works great and you can be productive immediately and with 2-3 packages extra it looks good too
Is BunsenLabs Linux a similar experience or you have to rice it to make it look as good as the screenshots? And can you be productive in it or is it just looks?