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VlinkZ

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Registered: 2017-03-14

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[SOLVED]Broadcom wireless with BCM-43142

Hello, I know that this question has been answered before, but none of the solutions worked for me.
I have Broadcom BCM-43142 Network Controller and even after installing b43-firmware, broadcom-wl, and broadcom-wl-dkms wifi still doesn't work.
I have touched my Arch installation for about a year so I'm kinda rusty on all the commands. Any help is appreciated.
Thanks!

Last edited by VlinkZ (2017-03-14 16:38:04)

Docbroke

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Re: [SOLVED]Broadcom wireless with BCM-43142

Have you checked which drivers out of 3 actually supports your card BCM43142. Links are in wiki page.

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VlinkZ

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Registered: 2017-03-14

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Re: [SOLVED]Broadcom wireless with BCM-43142

broadcom-wl and broadcom-wl-dkms say that they support my card, but when i try

modprobe wl

it says

modprobe: FATAL: Module wl not found in directory /lib/modules/4.6.2-1-ARCH

I have broadcom-wl and broadcom-wl-dkms installed

Last edited by VlinkZ (2017-03-14 16:25:25)

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

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Re: [SOLVED]Broadcom wireless with BCM-43142

What is the output of the following

$ uname -a
$ pacman -Q linux

Also when was the last time you ran a full system update?
Edit:
Also what is the output of

$ pacman -Ql broadcom-wl

Last edited by loqs (2017-03-14 16:29:18)

VlinkZ

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Re: [SOLVED]Broadcom wireless with BCM-43142

Actually, I just uninstalled everything relating to broadcom and reinstalled broadcom-wl and it is now working fine with wifi. Thanks for the help!