I recently installed endeavourOS kde on my old MacBook Air 7,2 and while everything (except sleep) works well the WiFi has been bugging out on me. While it DOES detect connections trying to connect to my WiFi bugs out and deactivates the connection.
Coincidentally this happened after switching to Rogers from Telus. My phones does work for wifi so it’s NOT a connection issue and so does my PC (which also runs arch linux).
Can’t install any packages to fix this.
Maybe have a look at this and see if anything here can help.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Mac/Troubleshooting#Wi-Fi
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Laptop/Apple
There is a link to a guide in the second link for the model you mentioned.
What do you mean? What is the WiFi chip?
inxi -Na
Broadcom BCM4360 802.11ac Dual Band Wireless Network Adapter.
So it needs the to use the broadcom-wl-dkms package.
Edit: yay -S broadcom-wl-dkms
reboot
Edit: Obviously you need an internet connection in order to install it.
By any chance could I use my main PC (which DOES have wifi) to install it and transfer it over?
If you can download the package with another computer then copy it over. I think you can install it with pacman.
The package is in the arch repo here:
https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/broadcom-wl-dkms/
example: sudo pacman -U /path/to/package-file.pkg.tar.zst
Then you have to reboot.
Edit: Hopefully i got this right. I don’t do this stuff that often.
Didn’t work!
Network is still deactivating when attempting to connect!
Did you reboot after installing?
Yes
To be clear, it is IDENTIFYING available networks, but it is NOT connecting to mine.
It had NO PROBLEM connecting to Telus’s networks. But Rogers is putting up a fight.
Have you power off the router for a few minutes?
I am not to familiar with the Rogers from Telus part. I’m just trying to work out the setup as in my country I have no idea of rogers and telus but found them to be internet providers.
I’m just trying to work out the setup, is the old router changed to a different one from the new provider or is this your own router (Same router) used from old provider to new?
Is the Arch Linux PC using WiFi as well or is that through cable?
WiFi. (MSI Pro H610m-G WiFi)
New router too.
You may need to blacklist some of the other broadcom modules.
Edit: Or at least try removing the modules and loading broadcom-wl.
rmmod b43
rmmod bcma
then reload wl module
rmmod wl
modprobe wl
It says they’re not currently loaded
Are you able to show the complete output as shown from the terminal of
inxi -Na
Not sure I’m understanding this? Did you switch providers?
Edit: Okay i see you said that in one of the other posts.
I am using the BCM4360 myself for a long time without issue.
Are you dual booting with Windows?
Network:
Device-1: Broadcom BCM4360
Vendor: Apple Driver: wl v: kernel modules: bcma pcie: gen 1
speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID 03:00.0 chip-ID 14e4:43a0 class-ID 0280