List, good afternoon,
How might I manage to install XFCE onto a laptop equipped only with WiFi, but unable to establish a connection because the wireless card requires a recent non-free firmware component for the Broadcom BCM 43142?
I'd like to try, and then probably install, the current XFCE release onto an HP Stream 11 Notebook PC.
This machine has a potentially useful spec but is limited to:
32GB MMC SDD HD, 2 x USB, WiFi BCM 43142
http://h20195.www2.hp.com/v2/default.aspx?cc=ie&lc=en&oid=8245635
There is no wired Ethernet LAN connector. I'd like to run XFCE live on this, first, and then would prefer to install XFCE onto a USB stick, so that I can leave the (rather small) MMC SDD HD running Windows - I need to drop back to Windows for Excel (and Word), sometimes (mainly in instances where Libre Office isn't sufficiently compatible).
I am not sure how or where I should both:
(a) obtain the required driver, and (b) once obtained, how to persuade either (i) the Live XFCE spin to install the driver (if available), or (ii) Ensure that any subsequent install onto USB is able to install the Broadcom driver
I could download the driver using another machine which does have connectivity, and copy the driver onto an SD card which could be read by XFCE on the HP Stream notebook. But I do not know how to install the driver into Fedora, either when running live, nor when fully installed.
I'd be grateful for any ideas,
regards, Ron