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Gamble

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Registered: 2019-06-11

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Attempting to connect to wireless network

I've been trying to connect to wifi forever now and tried following the wiki as best as I could but it seems impossible to stay on track. A lot of the wiki assumes that when you try ip link that a wifi driver is present and it becomes easy from there, however whenever I try ip link I only see my Ethernet. What do I do? Please help.

ip link:
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
2: enp3s0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 2c:60:0c:71:a8:4c brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

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Re: Attempting to connect to wireless network

It seems you skipped the first section:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wi … ice_driver

Use the commands provided there and share their results here so we can have some information about your hardware.

Last edited by Trilby (2019-06-14 03:20:09)

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Gamble

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Re: Attempting to connect to wireless network

lspci -k:
01:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries BCM4352 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter (rev 03)
        Subsystem: Lenovo BCM4352 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter

seth

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Re: Attempting to connect to wireless network

Broadcom gets a very own wiki page because it's so … well, let's say "special": https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Broadcom_wireless

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Gamble

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Registered: 2019-06-11

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Re: Attempting to connect to wireless network

Okay, I downloaded the right drivers I think. Still nothing when I do ip link

Trilby

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Re: Attempting to connect to wireless network

You need to let us in on what's going on.

What's the output from the commands in the broadcom page to identify your hardware?  What drivers has that led you to download?  What do you mean by download, did you install them with pacman and/or makepkg?  Did you load/blacklist any necessary kernel modules as described in the broadcom wiki page?  Did you try any of the troubleshooting steps in that page?

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