Step-by-step – openSUSE Tumbleweed Broadcom Wl Driver Offline Installation

Downloading Requirements

3. 3. Running openSUSE Live

   Next Download & Run openSUSE Tumbleweed Live on a PC with Internet
   So then you have to Find another Machine where to Boot openSUSE Live.
   You dispose of 2 Choices:

   • Boot PC with openSUSE Live

   • Run openSUSE Live on a Virtual Machine (VirtualBox or VMware)

4. 4. Enabling broadcom-wl Repository

   Add broadcom-wl Repo for openSUSE GNU/Linux

   Step by step Guide

   Enabling broadcom-wl Repository for openSUSE

5. 5. Downloading Packages

   So then Download All Needed Packages
   First, Make and Change to the Target container:

   mdkir ~/Downloads/broadcom-wl

   cd ~/Downloads/broadcom-wl

   And then Get All the needed Stuff with:

   sudo zypper in --download-only broadcom-wl

   Finally, Copy from the Zypper caching directory into the target:

   cp /var/cache/zypp/packages/download.opensuse.org-oss/x86_64/kernel* ~/Downloads/broadcom-wl/

   cp /var/cache/zypp/packages/home_Sauerland_hardware/x86_64/* ~/Downloads/broadcom-wl/