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tylerpnn

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Registered: 2014-03-06

Posts: 20

Broadcom driver not working after system update on 10/10/2014

Yesterday I updated my system (pacman -Syyu) and after rebooting my wireless card is no longer detected by the operating system. I have a 15 inch macbook pro (late 2013) with a broadcom BCM4360 wireless card. It was tough to get working in the first place, but eventually I got it to work with the broadcom-wl-dkms driver. The package is still installed, so I have no idea what to do because I have tried all of the available broadcom driver packages that I know to exist.

mike_r

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Registered: 2009-01-22

Posts: 114

Re: Broadcom driver not working after system update on 10/10/2014

Did you rebuild the wireless driver after updating the system? I've never quite figured out how to deal with the dkms variation of the drivers so you are on your own for the correct syntax (surely in the wiki somewhere), but I know that for my BCM4314 with the broadcom-wl driver, every time there is an update to the kernel, I need to rebuild the broadcom-wl driver (even if broadcom-wl itself didn't change) so that the wl.ko module shows up in the appropriate place in the kernel modules directory.

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