After updating this a.m., I completely lost wi-fi. After researching several pages on and off the forum and wiki , I finally resolved the issue by replacing broadcom-wl with the broadcom-wl-dkms package, which also required confirmation that the headers had been updated. Thanks to these forum posts for guidance:
Huh. I’m not sure where I got that module, but it must have been in the beginning trying to figure out this issue.
Anyway - your suggestion worked and I’m up and running.
I uninstalled the module, then re-ran sudo pacman -S broadcom-wl-dkms to install the correct module, and then rebooted.
It works fine now.
It was a long journey for me to solve this issue. This forum post was what ultimately got me there.
I am running a multiboot Hackintosh (macOS, Windows 10, Manjaro), and so I needed to…
I wish default Manjaro installation comes with “broadcom-wl-dkms” drivers by default. I not sure but i think currently only MX Linux comes with those preinstalled.
Problem:
Each time i reinstall system, i have to search and bring long network cable to my pc in order to install those. (Later on i found out that i can use USB mobile phone Tethering to temporarily share internet from my phone just to download those drivers). After i install them, my wifi card works fine.
This is what i have to d…
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