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jonnybarnes

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From: Manchester, UK

Registered: 2011-05-11

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My wireless keeps becoming unresponsive

I have a BCM4360 802.11ac model wifi card installed in my computer. I installed the broadcom-wl package to get working drivers.

I have setup the wifi via GNOME’s NetworkManager. I have unbound installed to do DNS lookups (and block certain hosts and send *.localhost to 127.0.0.1).

Thus /etc/resolv.conf specifies 127.0.0.1. I also set dns to none in /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf

Periodically my internet stops working. I still see a WiFi signal being indicated in top-right menu bar in GNOME. Running nmcli wlan0 is apparently still connected to the WiFi network, but there is no actual conectivity. I can’t even ping 192.168.0.1 succesfully.

A way of getting it to work again, is to turn the WiFi off and on again using the drop-down menu form the top-right of the GNOME display. But this is only temporary.

Anyone any ideas?

Last edited by jonnybarnes (2016-10-06 16:24:27)

jethronsun7

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Registered: 2016-04-29

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Re: My wireless keeps becoming unresponsive

Did you check https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Broadcom_wireless ? I only take a brief look and I think you should use pkg brcm80211 instead.

I remember dealing with this nasty problem a while ago, I may be able to help you if there are bugs while you going down the wiki's path.

NoSuck

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Re: My wireless keeps becoming unresponsive

Do you experience the same problem with an Arch installation disk?  How about before you installed unbound?

I don't use the networkmanager package.  Both netctl (wifi-menu) and connman have worked flawlessly for me.

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jonnybarnes

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From: Manchester, UK

Registered: 2011-05-11

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Re: My wireless keeps becoming unresponsive

If I blacklist the wl module provided by broadcom-wl, then lspci tells me the kernel driver in use is bcma-pci-bridge. But then nothing relating to my wireless card is visible in the output from `ip link`.