BCM4360 - Dell dw1830 wireless card not working when garuda is installed

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Hello,

just used garuda with a live usb and it worked great. I installed it onto the ssd in my Dell e5450, but i can't get the card to work, with the live usb it worked oob.
In the live, i checked pacman whether broadcom-wl, broadcom-wl-dkms or b43-firmware was installed but neither of these was, worked anyway.
With the installed system i tried both broadcom-wl (-dkms), but i don't get it to work.

What could i do to solve this?

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Look at the output of inxi -Fa to identify the wifi chipset, then search the forum for the many threads that already exist. :wink:

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In Live ISO, check inxi -n output, or other utility (Network Assistant, etc.) to see the used driver for WiFi card.

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And post the output please.

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Thanks for the replies, i had to install b43 again, and turn off the laptop for several minutes and then it worked.

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This thread is without merit without that ^^^ information.

The forum serves as a reference for other users, your thread has little helpful information without your adapter model.

Please post the information requested.

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╭─garuda@garuda in ~
╰─λ inxi -n
  Network: 
    Device-1: Intel Ethernet I218-LM driver: e1000e
    IF: eno1 state: down mac: 35:c6:d6:7c:4a:80
    Device-2: Broadcom BCM43602 802.11ac Wireless LAN SoC driver: brcmfmac
    IF: wlp2s0 state: down mac: e4:1b:0f:bc:3a:cd
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BCM43602 does not use the B43 driver, it uses brcmfmac.

From your output your adapter is not operational.

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You wanted me to post the output when the live iso is running, so i started it and fetched the output - without connecting to a wifi network. But i connected it afterwards, and it is the same output, just "down" replaced by "up".

I don't know why, but installing b43 worked with the installed garuda.

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Thank you for posting, and the explanation.

I hope you don't mind I have edited your thread title to include your adapter model. I do this with most networking help requests so that users with the same adapters may find solutions that apply to their hardware more easily.

I am going to close your thread now as this issue appears resolved.

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