• burgersc12@mander.xyzOP
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    2 days ago

    It was a guy who posted a few files that allowed the WiFi driver to work on my old laptop with EndeavourOS installed. Been trying to figure out what I was doing wrong for a while, turns out downloading iwd wasn’t enough, I needed to stop using wpa_supplicant entirely.

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      1 day ago

      That files were firmware files, weren’t they? I think those would be in AUR as well. Most of them are. 😇

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        21 hours ago

        Yeah, but the AUR build failed for me, so I just manually copied the WiFi iwd backend fix, it was only a couple short lines anyway.

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          18 hours ago

          Ahh, I see

          May I ask which driver you are using for your wifi chip? I want to research about this

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            10 hours ago

            This is the fix I needed to get WiFi working. I had browsed several forums saying that removing broadcom-wl(-dkms) would fix the problems I was having, but it turns out you need to stop using wpa_supplicant due to a bug or something. Not sure why the AUR pkgbuild failed but it seems like this way was simpler anyway

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              😍this is awesome! I have a MBP running endeavourOS as well! I think some things written there, apply to my system (2013) as well

              For my setup, endeavourOS was the only distro that got wifi working out of box 🤭 maybe it is different now

              I have KDE and use whatever WiFi authentication system is used there by default Seems WPA_Supplican, at least it is installed Oh, but iwd is installed as well 🤔

              I have BCMM4360 and it uses the driver wl

              Do you have the same chip?

              And, was the issue it working not at all, or that it crashed sometimes while in use and needed a reboot in order to work again?

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                6 hours ago

                It was not showing wifi at all, until I uninstalled the -wl-dmks module. Then i could see the wifi but no connection was ever made, until the iwd backend took over. I have the 43602, so very similar chip but different setup to make it work afaik.