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Most linux distros fail to recognize that BCM wifi 'out of the box' on a live boot which I can most easily solve by connecting to ethernet and installing a BCM package from the repo/s.bcmwl-kernel-source which package when run accesses other related packages to aid its installation with the resultant proper handling of the device with the wl driver.

An example of a distro which can recognize the device automatically out of the box is MX Linux 21.1 which can also give a network report from its inxi script tool; follows the network section of that report

Network: Device-1: Broadcom BCM43228 802.11a/b/g/n driver: wl v: kernel modules: bcma
port: 3100 bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 14e4:4359 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>

Is it possible for Easy to handle the device if it uses the ethernet connection to add something?

It seems that you want the wl.ko kernel module from here:

https://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64 ... fell64.pet

You would have to install the one that matches your kernel, so whenever Easy moves to a newer kernel, you would have to uninstall the PET and install the one that matches the kernel version.

There have been some posts about this wl.ko module on the forum. You have to disable one or more existing broadcom modules. Let's see, I posted about it in 2020:

https://bkhome.org/news/202012/broadcom ... river.html