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ningates

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Registered: 2021-12-31

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Question about PCIe wifi card support (TP-Link AC1200 PCIe wifi card)

Hi,

Using the TP-Link AC1200 pcie wifi adapter card (Archer T4E) and it worked fine on fedora and windows, however installing to arch I never got it to work for me. is there a driver I Have to install for it? and if so, where?

thanks

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

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Re: Question about PCIe wifi card support (TP-Link AC1200 PCIe wifi card)

What is the VID:PID of the adapter?  It will be listed in square brackets in the output of `lspci -nn`

ningates

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Registered: 2021-12-31

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Re: Question about PCIe wifi card support (TP-Link AC1200 PCIe wifi card)

What is the VID:PID of the adapter?  It will be listed in square brackets in the output of `lspci -nn`

14e4:43a0

seth

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Re: Question about PCIe wifi card support (TP-Link AC1200 PCIe wifi card)

Congratulations, you bought a broadcom chip.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Broadcom_wireless

It's a BCM4360 and you'll likely need https://archlinux.org/packages/communit … oadcom-wl/ and a lot of patience…
https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/drivers/b43

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ningates

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Registered: 2021-12-31

Posts: 9

Re: Question about PCIe wifi card support (TP-Link AC1200 PCIe wifi card)

Congratulations, you bought a broadcom chip.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Broadcom_wireless

It's a BCM4360 and you'll likely need https://archlinux.org/packages/communit … oadcom-wl/ and a lot of patience…
https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/drivers/b43

yeah thanks lol man, damn, got this baby back in like 2019. rippp thanks tho ig ill have some fun with this tn