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anz

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Registered: 2025-09-02

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[SOLVED] Wifi Drops Intermediatey using broadcom-wl-dkms

Yo! What's good y'all?

I'm running Arch off my 2013 MacBookAir 6,2 which uses the BCM4360 for wireless networking and its respective broadcom-wl-dkms package installed. However when ever I try to run anything with WiFi it drops. It's weird because when the system first boots the WiFi works, I can run things like 'ping' and 'pacman -S'  for a few seconds then drops altogether. When I try to reconnect using 'nmtui' this error is shown

 ERROR @wl_cfg80211_scan : 

This can also been seen on the logon prompt after a while. I tried switching kernels aswell, at first I was on '6.16.4-zen1-1-zen' then I switched to the LTS kernel which was on '6.12.44.-1' both producing the same error. 

Something that I noticed is when I boot a live USB of Endeavor OS it works and using the exact same broadcom-wl-dkms version, using the '6.13.7' kernel.

I'm thinking that something in the wireless subsystem might have changed which broke it and then maybe then got back ported into the lts version? I'm unsure of that though..

Last edited by anz (2025-09-02 17:34:21)

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Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: [SOLVED] Wifi Drops Intermediatey using broadcom-wl-dkms

Have you tried the wl driver? My humble apologies, I need to learn how to read.

Sanity check: do you have multiple networking services enabled?

This should show what is enabled:

ls -lR /etc/systemd/system

Last edited by Head_on_a_Stick (2025-09-02 17:20:48)

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Jin, Jîyan, Azadî

anz

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Re: [SOLVED] Wifi Drops Intermediatey using broadcom-wl-dkms

I have:  iwd, NetworkManager and dhcpcd running.

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Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: [SOLVED] Wifi Drops Intermediatey using broadcom-wl-dkms

Well there's your problem then: iwd & NM are conflicting. Pick one (I use iwd, which doesn't need dhcpcd because it can assign it's own addresses).

EDIT: check with my command though because NM can start iwd itself, the two will only conflict if both services are enabled.

Last edited by Head_on_a_Stick (2025-09-02 17:27:10)

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anz

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Registered: 2025-09-02

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Re: [SOLVED] Wifi Drops Intermediatey using broadcom-wl-dkms

After disabling both dhcpcd and iwd WiFi works just fine! TYSM!

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