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daidahan

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Registered: 2024-08-15

Posts: 17

broadcom wifi - modinfo wl | head ERROR: Module wl not found.

Greetings to the community. Thanks in advance for your ongoing help. You are heroes to the world... in my world.
I have a Broadcom WiFi integrated into my xps m1330 laptop. I always have a hard time setting it up. I come from Kali with this machine and I know it works, but in Archlinux I have not been able to do it. im install broadcom-wl, b43-fwcutter.

When executing #ip a it says

2: enp9s0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state DOWN group default qlen 1000 link/ether 00:15:c5:7d:7f:41 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

and with wpa_supplicant :

Successfully initialized wpa_supplicant
rfkill: Cannot get wiphy information
ioctl[SIOCSIWPMKSA]: Operation not permitted
ioctl[SIOCSIWMODE]: Operation not permitted
ioctl[SIOCGIWRANGE]: Operation not supported
ioctl[SIOCGIWMODE]: Operation not supported
ioctl[SIOCSIWAP]: Operation not permitted
ioctl[SIOCSIWESSID]: Operation not permitted
l2_packet_init: socket(PF_PACKET): Operation not permitted
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Operation not permitted
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Operation not permitted
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Operation not permitted
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Operation not permitted
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Operation not permitted
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Operation not permitted
enp9s0: CTRL-EVENT-DSCP-POLICY clear_all
enp9s0: CTRL-EVENT-DSCP-POLICY clear_all
ioctl[SIOCGIWMODE]: Operation not supported
ioctl[SIOCSIWAP]: Operation not permitted
ioctl[SIOCSIWESSID]: Operation not permitted
Could not set interface enp9s0 flags (DOWN): Operation not permitted

I ran

#ip link set enp9s0 up

all ok but
#modinfo wl | head

ERROR: Module wl not found.

and not connect...

please. help me to find solution.

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 56,242

Re: broadcom wifi - modinfo wl | head ERROR: Module wl not found.

enp9s0 is a wired chip

uname -a
pacman -Qs 'kernel|broadcom'

If you're not running the main linux kernel, you need https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x8 … m-wl-dkms/ and the kernel headers and also read https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dynami … le_Support

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