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#1 2016-10-15 11:40:45

Magnus2552
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Registered: 2016-04-07
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[Solved] Wireless device not showing up in KDE

So I have one of those stupid Broadcom devices, which have that really bad Linux support and need that broadcom-wl driver. But I got it working, ip link reports UP and when I do a CLI wifi-menu, it successfully scans for hotspots and finds them. My problem though is that I cannot seem to get it show up in KDE. It only shows the airplane mode symbol in the network applet, nothing else (except the connection editor menu button in the top right). Did I forget to download an additional package that is needed to show wireless connections? I don't know what the hell I did wrong, does someone know how to help?
Output of ip link (wlp8s0 only):

ip link
3: wlp8s0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 10:08:b1:e6:47:95 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

The state outside of the <> is only up, when I did a wifi-menu, but even then it does not show up in KDE. I_d really appreciate any help smile

lspci -vnn -d 14e4:
08:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4352 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter [14e4:43b1] (rev 03)
        Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:0623]
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
        Memory at d1600000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32K]
        Memory at d1400000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2M]
        Capabilities: <access denied>
        Kernel driver in use: wl
        Kernel modules: bcma, wl

Yes, I already checked the wiki and rebooted multiple times.

Last edited by Magnus2552 (2016-10-15 12:50:07)

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#2 2016-10-15 11:51:15

Head_on_a_Stick
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Re: [Solved] Wireless device not showing up in KDE

Is NetworkManager enabled?

Please post the output of:

systemctl list-unit-files --state=enabled

Similar problem here:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=218277

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#3 2016-10-15 12:49:07

Magnus2552
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Registered: 2016-04-07
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Re: [Solved] Wireless device not showing up in KDE

Wow, I am amazed by how fast and exact you can pinpoint the problem! yikes
Indeed Networkmanager was not enabled, systemctl enable fixed the problem smile

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