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WebReflection

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Registered: 2014-07-08

Posts: 106

linux 3.18.2-2 and wifi

I know there is a known problem with broadcom as commented here:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/broadcom-wl/

but I'm actually trying any sort of wi-fi dongle that never gave me a problem and after few minutes all of them simply stops being usable.

Everything was fine 'till the latest linux and I wonder if it's just me or others managed to have a stable network.

Right now I am on a wired USB bridge connection but you know ... this ain't the ideal situation.

Thanks for any sort of hint, I can eventually provide more details but basically 5 out ot 5 WiFi dongles that used to work out of the box are giving up randomly as soon as multiple network requests are involved (in different browsers, via basic ping too)

Best Regards

WebReflection

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Registered: 2014-07-08

Posts: 106

Re: linux 3.18.2-2 and wifi

edit: it's between 3.17.6 and 3.18.x ... both 18.1 and 18.2 failed, restored now via Arch Rollback Machine http://seblu.net/a/arm/2014/12/31/pool/packages/

to be very specific, there is a problem between 3.17.6 and 3.18.x, as spotted in other threads too (but with different problems)

thanks again

Last edited by WebReflection (2015-01-15 18:45:29)

ipatch

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Registered: 2014-05-14

Posts: 26

Re: linux 3.18.2-2 and wifi

Yeah I upgraded last night to 3.18.2-2 and the builtin wireless on my MBPr (late 2013) isn't working anymore.  I even tried building the broadcom-wl-dkms package using makepkg, and it apeared to build, but when I restarted I still wasn't able to connect to a wireless network with the builtin wifi on this box.  Needless to say, I now have a wireless dongle sticking out the side of my box (not cool).  If anyone has gotten the wireless working on a MBPr (late 2013) with the latest kernel I would really appreciate to hear how you got it working.  ...And yes this wireless module / card (the builtin one) was working great with the 3.17.x kernels.