hardware is a nuked MacBook Pro, Intel Core i5-4278U @ 2.60GHz, model A1502 (EMC 2875), Retina Mid-2014 13"
I tried to install debian 12.5 from a live usb on this computer. On the network page of debian’s installation GUI I get this message:
No Ethernet card was detected. If you know the name of the driver needed by your Ethernet card, you can select it from the list.
so I logged in to recovery mode and executed
sudo lspci -vnnk -s 03:00.0
that returns
network controller [0200]: broadcom inc. and subsidiaries BCM4360 802.11ac wireless network manager adapter [14e4:43a0] (rev 03)
there is more information that I wanted to save to a lspci.txt file on the live usb (sdc1) to share with you, but I failed the syntax.
Why I want to do this: installing debian, on the GUI’s networking page there is a candidate with this exact specification (broadcom 802.11ac wireless network manager), but I cannot install it because I don’t have wifi or an ethernet cable, so I’d have to download this package from this computer I’m using now and copy it to the live usb to install alongside debian 12.5. I just wanted to print the whole command just in case it’s helpful.
ETA: how do I install rpm fusion repos on debian? I only found instructions for fedora and rhel https://rpmfusion.org/Configuration
thanks
thanks for posting such a detailed answer.
about the different debian versions: I don’t know which one I should try first:
I found debian mac 12.5 netinst https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/bt-cd/ and I’m giving it a try.
Shouldn’t that work, I’ll try one of the live cds https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current-live/amd64/bt-hybrid/
I paste the links to check if I have the right version
Incidentally, the data size difference is so surprising: 0.66 GB (debian mac netinst) against 3.17 GB (debian live). Can I have something in between?