Re: Debian 9.1 Xfce wifi with bcm43142 on HP laptop

>Am 22.08.2017 um 11:11 schrieb A Abbes:
>>https://packages.debian.org/broadcom-sta-dkms is the link to the 
>>module page package. Download the module corresponding to the 
>>debian version.
>>
>>Then dpkg -i nameofthepackage.deb (some other packages like the 
>>kernel headers have to be present on the system, see the wiki)

On 22.08.17 22:07, Henning Wendt wrote:
>Why did you choose to bypass apt?

maybe he couldn't use APT before he set up broadcomm module in order to get
network connectivity.

Just guessing - I'm curiour whether this was the case.

> If I'm not mistaken, you will not 
>receive possible future upgrades for a package this way.

He will, if the package was downloaded from debian archive and if he
downloaded jessie or older version.

The wiki page describes versions for jessie...