Wifi issues after system upgrade today

General system Newbie
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Hello Everyone…

I ran into an issue today where I did the following on my EOS + LUKs + BTRFS + Snapper + Grub-btrfs on my old 2013 MacBook Pro:

sudo pacman -Syy
sudo pacman -Syu
sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

Pretty standard stuff. This included forty+ upgrades including linux and linux-headers. Thus, I did a reboot afterwards. When I logged in my wifi was none functional on my laptop.

Upon reviewing /var/log/pacman.log I see this:

[2025-02-03T15:40:53-0700] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> dkms install --no-depmod broadcom-wl/6.30.223.271 -k 6.13.1-arch1-1
[2025-02-03T15:40:58-0700] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]
[2025-02-03T15:40:58-0700] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 6.13.1-arch1-1 (x86_64)
[2025-02-03T15:40:58-0700] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] Consult /var/lib/dkms/broadcom-wl/6.30.223.271/build/make.log for more information.
[2025-02-03T15:40:58-0700] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> WARNING: `dkms install --no-depmod broadcom-wl/6.30.223.271 -k 6.13.1-arch1-1' exited 10

Here is a snippet of the /var/log/pacman.log and here is the contents of /var/lib/dkms/broadcom-wl/6.30.223.271/build/make.log.

Sadly that laptop has no physical ethernet port to plug into but I do have a 2.4ghz USB wifi dongle which functions to try resolving the issue.

What would be the easiest method to resolving this in your opinion?

  1. Look to rectify the issue with the broadcom-wl-dkms package manually? Any suggestions as to where to start if here based on the log file?
  2. Run a sudo snapper undochange 1731..1736 while logged into the main snapshot with no wifi? Was was cautions if that was viable since a new /boot/initramfs-linux.img and /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img was generated by the system upgrade?
  3. Revert to the pre-system upgrade snapshot? I’ve never had to revert the system to a subvolume previously and don’t understand the underlying process from a technical perspective.
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If possible try linux-lts should work
6.13 and wl-dkms is no succes…dont forget yhat headers too xd

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Just seeing this pinned post today Package broadcom-wl removed from the Archlinux Repositories which mentions the fact that broadcom-wl-dkms is currently broken. Seems to be my issue I believe.

Holding off for now for a resolution with the package in hopes I can just reinstall it once the issue is resolved.

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I believe upstream should be fixed now or use lts

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Confirmed fixed on my end. Issue was related to broadcom-wl-dkms 6.30.223.271-39 and fixed by broadcom-wl-dkms 6.30.223.271-41.

I didn’t see the pinned broadcom post initially so sorry for the extra post.

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no problem , extrab LTS is also handy since its a dkms

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