Broadcom

ltelmo

Just installed 4 and its pretty awesome but. My broadcom network card will not work. Driver manager sees it and i install the drivers as it asks , then reboot but it will not find the card. I uninstalled and reinstalled the package via terminal and reboot and still nothing. This works perfect on Ubuntu 18.04 or 18.10 , it is found install driver and works fine. Any idea why it installs here and will not find it?

Thanks

henkesteen

ltelmo
I have encountered issues with that driver as well.
I have a MacBook Pro here at work, and when I install the driver through Doflicky, the card disappears.
When I uninstall the driver, it works again, really strange.

Soooo.....
Installed driver = Card does not work (not found)
Uninstalled driver = Card works

Solus-Fan

Please output
inxi -Fxxxz

ltelmo

The Ralink is my temp USB wireless I used to get it up temp.
The Broadcom is primary wireless
System:
Host: gateway Kernel: 4.20.16-112.current x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
v: 8.2.0 Desktop: Budgie 10.5 info: budgie-panel wm: budgie-wm
dm: LightDM 1.28.0 Distro: Solus 4.0
Machine:
Type: Desktop System: Gateway product: DX4860 v: N/A serial: <filter>
Chassis: type: 3 serial: <filter>
Mobo: Gateway model: IPISB-VR v: 1.01 serial: <filter>
UEFI: American Megatrends v: P02-A2 date: 10/31/2011
Battery:
Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech K520 serial: <filter>
charge: 70% rechargeable: yes status: Discharging
Device-2: hidpp_battery_1 model: Logitech Wireless Mouse M510
serial: <filter> charge: 55% rechargeable: yes status: Discharging
CPU:
Topology: Quad Core model: Intel Core i5-2320 bits: 64 type: MCP
arch: Sandy Bridge rev: 7 L2 cache: 6144 KiB
flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 23946
Speed: 1596 MHz min/max: 1600/3300 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1596 2: 1596
3: 1596 4: 1596
Graphics:
Device-1: AMD Cedar [Radeon HD 5000/6000/7350/8350 Series]
vendor: XFX Pine driver: radeon v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.0
chip ID: 1002:68f9
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.3 driver: ati,radeon
unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa compositor: budgie-wm
resolution: 1920x1080_60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: AMD CEDAR (DRM 2.50.0 / 4.20.16-112.current LLVM 7.0.0)
v: 3.3 Mesa 19.0.0 compat-v: 3.1 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 6 Series/C200 Series Family High Definition Audio
vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
bus ID: 00:1b.0 chip ID: 8086:1c20
Device-2: AMD Cedar HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 5400/6300/7300 Series]
vendor: XFX Pine driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.1
chip ID: 1002:aa68
Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.20.16-112.current
Network:
Device-1: Broadcom and subsidiaries BCM4360 802.11ac Wireless Network
Adapter
driver: N/A port: e000 bus ID: 03:00.0 chip ID: 14e4:43a0
Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: r8169 v: kernel port: d000
bus ID: 04:00.0 chip ID: 10ec:8168
IF: enp4s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-3: Ralink RT5572 Wireless Adapter type: USB driver: rt2800usb
bus ID: 1-1.5:3 chip ID: 148f:5572 serial: <filter>
IF: wlp0s26u1u5 state: up mac: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 1.94 TiB used: 8.62 GiB (0.4%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Toshiba model: THNSNJ128GCST size: 119.24 GiB
speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: 0102 scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Western Digital model: WD10EADS-00L5B1
size: 931.51 GiB speed: 3.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: 1A01 scheme: MBR
ID-3: /dev/sdc vendor: Western Digital model: WD1001FALS-00J7B0
size: 931.51 GiB speed: 3.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: 0K05 scheme: MBR
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 112.73 GiB used: 8.62 GiB (7.7%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda3
ID-2: swap-1 size: 3.73 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda2
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 28.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: radeon temp: 49 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 181 Uptime: 9h 03m Memory: 7.77 GiB used: 1021.8 MiB (12.8%)
Init: systemd v: 239 runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: N/A Shell: bash v: 4.4.19
running in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.0.32
butters@gateway ~ $

leonevo

Try this:
sudo eopkg install -y broadcom-sta-common broadcom-sta-current
sudo -i
echo 'install wl /sbin/modprobe cfg80211; /sbin/insmod /lib/modules/$(/bin/uname -r)/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/wl.ko' > /etc/modprobe.d/wl.conf
echo wl > /etc/modules-load.d/wl.conf
modprobe wl
exit

and reboot

oxioxi

leonevo Care to explain what happened there ? Worked for me and Im impressed, thank you, and would like to know more.

malizade

leonevo Thank you so much. I just created an account to thank you!

ltelmo

Thank you so much good sir! That fixed it, Its weird the driver duthinky didn't work right
Thank you again

aproudlove

Hi,
Just wanted to say thanks as well as you also fixed my issue with the wifi.
Cheers

isaacmateosv

It's not working anymore 🙁 at least for an old Macbook 4,1 with Wi-Fi Broadcom 4321