Dell XPS 13 (9350) Wireless Drivers

[boxer]

Your lspci -k does not show network. Where is it?

@PlanexDev

I also have broadcom-wl-dkms installed.

Your kernel might be tainted. Like mine: output of sudo dmesg before I remove broadcom-wl-dkms

[ 13.212554] wl: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel.
[ 13.212559] wl: module license ‘MIXED/Proprietary’ taints kernel.
[ 13.212561] Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint

and

[ 13.325445] wl driver 6.30.223.271 (r587334) failed with code 1
[ 13.325448] ERROR @wl_cfg80211_detach :
[ 13.325449] NULL ndev->ieee80211ptr, unable to deref wl

Try this in terminal:
sudo pacman -R broadcom-wl-dkms
sudo rmmod wl
sudo modprobe brcmfmac

No need to reboot. If it works then you should be able to connect now.

[ricklinux]

brcm80211

The kernel contains two built-in open-source drivers: brcmfmac for native FullMAC and brcmsmac for mac80211-based SoftMAC. They should be automatically loaded when booting.

The Broadcom BCM4350 uses brcmfmac kernel module. Did you try uninstalling the broadcom packages.

Try as @boxer has posted above.

[PlanexDev]

@anon11595408

F2 alone, or Win + X ?

Nope, and nope. It seems that there’s a “signal” icon (or something) for Fn+PrtScr, but pressing it doesn’t seem to do anything.

@anon11595408

Also, someone disabled their BT in the BIOS settings to get it to work. - Speaking of BIOS, you might want to look into a BIOS update, which potentially could fix things.

Not sure about disabling bluetooth in BIOS, haven’t played around with it, I’ll try it later, but I updated BIOS from the Dell instructions about Linux (flash onto drive, F12 in BIOS, etc).

@pebcak

Are you dualbooting with Windows?

Nope, it used to have Windows but I’m pretty sure that it got erased.

@boxer

Try this in terminal:
sudo pacman -R broadcom-wl-dkms
sudo rmmod wl
sudo modprobe brcmfmac

Doesn’t seem to work, with sudo rmmode wl I get rmmod: ERROR: Module wl is not currently loaded.

[PlanexDev]

Oh, update, I have no idea why but it suddenly decided to work after a reboot. Here’s what I did:

1. Fn+PrtScr - This is apparently the newer shortcut for the hardware switch @anon11595408 was talking about. It didn’t give any indication that it did anything, but it might have.
2. The following commands from @boxer:

sudo pacman -R broadcom-wl-dkms
sudo rmmod wl
sudo modprobe brcmfmac

It might have been because of the removal of the broadcom-wl-dkms package, or any of the other commands that I’m not sure about.

Thanks for all the help you guys gave, I appreciate it!

[boxer]

@PlanexDev

Doesn’t seem to work, with sudo rmmode wl I get rmmod: ERROR: Module wl is not currently loaded.

That is just to check that wl module is gone. The error you get is how it should be.

Glad it worked out

[anon11595408]

@PlanexDev

Fn+PrtScr - This is apparently the newer shortcut for the hardware switch @anon11595408 was talking about. It didn’t give any indication that it did anything, but it might have.

Go to Dell website and download the pdf manual. In there it should clearly be stated what you somehow “reluctantly” found out.