Update Slackware Broadcom Driver
May 31, 2023 —
Gregg Szumowski
It doesn’t happen often, but whenever there’s a new kernel package for Slackware on my laptop I need to update the Broadcom driver. To do this:
- Update your OS, as usual.
- Reboot
- Plug in the ethernet cable, if necessary
- Login as root
- Perform sbopkg -i broadcom-sta
- Done
You can read more about it on the Slackware wiki here