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mach

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Registered: 2018-08-08

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iwctl device list does not show any devices

When I try to list my Wi-Fi devices only an empty list is shown.
I am using the latest installation image archlinux-2024.04.01-x86_64.iso and booted via a USB stick into Arch to install it onto my hard drive.
I have been using a fairly old Arch system (several years) with this hardware lately therefore I assume the hardware is working fine.

Last edited by mach (2024-04-19 13:38:56)

V1del

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Re: iwctl device list does not show any devices

No information on the actual HW/wifi chip nor whether you see any errors on a kernel level in dmesg. In the most harmless case your HW and the used wifi driver are actually so old that they don't implement the newer interfaces iwctl uses, in which case you might want to  stop iwd and test NetworkManager/nmcli or the more manual connection approach with wpa_supplicant instead.

Work through https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Networ … n/Wireless but start from the top including trying to identify the loaded drivers.

mach

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Registered: 2018-08-08

Posts: 3

Re: iwctl device list does not show any devices

It seems no driver has been loaded for my card?

# lspci -k
03:00.0 Network Controller: Broadcom Inc. and subsidaries BCM4352 802.11ac Dual Band Wireless Network Adapter (rev 03)
            Subsystem: Dell BCM4352 802.11ac Dual Band Wireless Network Adapter

Installing broadcom-wl solved the problem.

Last edited by mach (2024-04-26 17:23:37)