#21 2016-10-23 18:47:24

damo

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Re: How to get network during installation without ethernet

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Awesome write up Damo...any reason you haven't ported that post to here on the Bunsen Labs forums?...

Because the BL iso has the necessary broadcom firmware   At the time of the post BL was built using a netinstall iso, followed by the BL netinstall script.

Also, as HoaS pointed out, there is a Debian howto (which I also linked to in my HowTo)

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Re: How to get network during installation without ethernet

EDIT: if the latest (8.6) Debian jessie ISO images work, you could try a netinstall with no desktop selected and then use johnraff's netinstall script to Bunsenify the system:

https://github.com/BunsenLabs/bunsen-netinstall

EDIT2: aargh! How would a netinstall work with no internet connection? Sorry...
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Can you temporarily connect with a wire?

Maybe I should update that I managed to do the install with this method and a borrowed usb to ethernet adapter. The grub installation still errored but I was able to install it with this guide.

To get the wifi working I had to update the kernel from the backports and install iwlwifi also from there. There was problem of kernel loading wrong wifi module but I found fix for that from here.

My laptop is Xiaomi Mi notebook Air, maybe this information could help someone in the future.