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burnbabyburn71

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Registered: 2015-08-04

Posts: 25

No 5GHz WIFI with Broadcom BCM4360

So I'm staying in university run accommodation and the people here have no control or access over the routers. The routers have an odd problem (or maybe this was by design), you can only connect to 5GHz WIFI, 2.4GHz does not work. I've found this out as a result of testing with multiple devices running different OSs.

So I went out and bought an AC1750 TP-LINK WIFI PCIe adapter, I later found out it has a Broadcom chip in it. The thing didn't work out of the box and I had to get the broadcom-wl-dkms driver from the AUR for it to even slightly work. Once I got this installed, it worked, but WICD showed no 5GHz connections, meaning I couldn't connect to the routers.

I tried to downgrade to version 6.30.223.248-7 but that didn't work either.

Any users of this chip please report in, does it work for you? If so how did you get it working?

I'd very much appreciate any help from anyone though. If anyone has any ideas please let me know.

I'm on kernel 4.2.2-1-Arch if that helps

Last edited by burnbabyburn71 (2015-10-04 19:47:06)

skogsmaskin

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From: Norway

Registered: 2016-03-23

Posts: 6

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Re: No 5GHz WIFI with Broadcom BCM4360

No luck with the 5ghz band here either. I have a TP-Link Archer T8E card with the BCM4360. Works flawlessly in Windows and Mac OSX. In Linux it works with 2.4Ghz networks (but slow and with a bad signal strength).

Shoppinguin

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Registered: 2016-07-18

Posts: 1

Re: No 5GHz WIFI with Broadcom BCM4360

I have the same issue with my Intel Wifi 3160. I found out however, if i do "iwlist wlan0 scan" as root, it finds and displays 5GHz stations. Then you simply refresh wicd and it's there. After a reboot it's gone again. A possible solution could be installing crda and configuring /etc/conf.d/wireless-regdom. However, for me this did not work.