Please help my wifi is not working in macbook air 2016 broadcom wifi

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help my wifi is not working in broadcom BCM4360 802.11AC DUAL BAND this is my wifi

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Hi there, welcome to the forum.
We need your detailed specs, with the output of garuda-inxi, as required in the topic template.
If you don’t have an Ethernet connection, use your mobile phone in tethering.
You will need it anyway, since most likely it is a matter of installing the right driver.
First of all, when connected in tethering, update your system (this could be enough sometimes) with:

garuda-update

If that doesn’t help, there are many solutions in our forum for your chipset. I’d start from this one, whose solution did not require connectivity probably:

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hwinfo --netcard --bluetooth | grep -Ei “(speed|hotplug|model|status|cmd|file|detected|driver:)” | grep -v “Config S”
Model: “Broadcom BCM4360 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter”
Driver: “bcma-pci-bridge”
Driver Status: bcma is active
Driver Activation Cmd: “modprobe bcma”
Model: “OPPO Electronics RMX2001”
Hotplug: USB
Driver: “rndis_host”
Device File: enp0s20u1u4
Speed: 480 Mbps
Link detected: yes
Driver Status: rndis_host is active
Driver Activation Cmd: “modprobe rndis_host”

sudo systemctl stop NetworkManager; sudo modprobe -r wl; sudo modprobe -r brcmfmac; sleep 3; sudo modprobe brcmfmac; sudo systemctl start NetworkManager

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hwinfo --netcard --bluetooth | grep -Ei “(speed|hotplug|model|status|cmd|file|detected|driver:)” | grep -v “Config S”
Model: “Broadcom BCM4360 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter”
Driver: “bcma-pci-bridge”
Driver Status: bcma is active
Driver Activation Cmd: “modprobe bcma”
Model: “OPPO Electronics RMX2001”
Hotplug: USB
Driver: “rndis_host”
Device File: enp0s20u1u4
Speed: 480 Mbps
Link detected: yes
Driver Status: rndis_host is active
Driver Activation Cmd: “modprobe rndis_host”

sudo systemctl stop NetworkManager; sudo modprobe -r wl; sudo modprobe -r brcmfmac; sleep 3; sudo modprobe brcmfmac; sudo systemctl start NetworkManager

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If that didn’t help (after a reboot), try the Broadcom proprietary driver:

sudo pacman -Syu broadcom-wl-dkms
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thanks very much bro for help now its working
have a great day

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