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nycelase

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Registered: 2022-07-27

Posts: 6

[SOLVED] cant setup macbook air 2013 wifi (BCM4360)

hello guys/gals
I have installed arch linux and am using it currently with my android phone using tethering but that is not that convenient for me and would love wifi but anything i try isnt working so here is everything i tried:
rfkill:

ID TYPE      DEVICE      SOFT      HARD
 0 bluetooth hci0   unblocked unblocked

lspci -vnn -d 14e4:

03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries BCM4360 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter [14e4:43a0] (rev 03)
        Subsystem: Apple Inc. Device [106b:0117]
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
        Memory at b0600000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32K]
        Memory at b0400000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2M]
        Capabilities: <access denied>
        Kernel driver in use: bcma-pci-bridge
        Kernel modules: bcma

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: enp0s20u2: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 5a:8b:68:39:25:71 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

1: no idea
2: android phone connected

i have also tried looking in the broadcom website but it said 0 results found

Last edited by nycelase (2022-08-23 18:18:00)

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] cant setup macbook air 2013 wifi (BCM4360)

i have also tried looking in the broadcom website but it said 0 results found

You have what where?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Broadcom_wireless
You're likely facing https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Broadc … el_upgrade and want to try https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Broadc … roadcom-wl

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