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user 8/8/2026, 11:19:19 AM
wifi drivers says its installed and loaded, but wifi networks arent appearing
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Developer 8/8/2026, 11:19:39 AM
sudo chwd -a While connected to internet ofc Then: sudo modprobe -r bcma wl sudo modprobe wl (edited)
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user 8/8/2026, 11:20:58 AM
sudo chwd -a returns: Using profile 'intel' for device: 0000:00:02.0 (0300:8086:1626) VGA compatible controller Intel Corporation Broadwell-U GT3 [HD Graphics 6000] Using profile 'broadcom-wl' for device: 0000:03:00.0 (0280:14e4:43a0) Network controller Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries BCM4360 802.11ac Dual Band Wireless Network Adapter Installing intel ... :: Synchronizing package databases... pearos is up to date inled 20.0 KiB 66.9 KiB/s 00:00 [####################################] 100% core is up to date extra is up to date multilib is up to date warning: downgrading package linux-firmware-intel (1:20260309-1 => 20260622-1) resolving dependencies... looking for conflicting packages... error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies) :: installing gst-plugins-base-libs (1.28.5-4) breaks dependency 'gst-plugins-base-libs=1.28.5-2' required by gst-plugins-base :: installing gstreamer (1.28.5-4) breaks dependency 'gstreamer=1.28.5-2' required by gst-plugins-base :: installing gst-plugins-base-libs (1.28.5-4) breaks dependency 'gst-plugins-base-libs=1.28.5-2' required by gst-plugins-good :: installing gstreamer (1.28.5-4) breaks dependency 'gstreamer=1.28.5-2' required by gst-plugins-good ERROR: Pacman command was failed! Exit code: 1 Error: script failed! Error: Error occurred
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Developer 8/8/2026, 11:21:28 AM
sudo pacman -Syyu --noconfirm --overwrite="*" sudo pacman -S --noconfirm $(pacman -Qq | grep '^linux-firmware')
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user 8/8/2026, 11:22:28 AM
(OCR From Image) ®® ~: zsh — Konsole Ee Net Upgrade Size: 4.19 MiB Spl Proceed with installation? [Y/n] isangeensass © Retrieving packages... aaa 0c js-26.5.1-1-x86_64 is up to date essmaaas TTMpeg-2:8.1.2-11-x86_64 is up to date 2 <A = 4 mesa-1:26.1.6-1-x86_64 is up to date BN Kwin-6.7.4-1-x86_64 is up to date BRR 0libc-2.44+15+7cba77790f32-1-x86_64 10.4 MiB 2.92 MiB/s 00:04 [REFREARREARIRRRIARIARRRRR A RRA442] 100% qt6-tools-6.11.1-4-x86_64 6.6 MiB 1171 KiB/s 00:06 [HR RR RAR RRR RAR RRR RAE RRRNNH) 100% [ET binutils-2.47-1-x86_64 8.2 MiB 1132 KiB/s 00:07 [FRRFARRRAAAARRRRIRRRRRIRBARARRRNULER] 100% Rerre intel-media-driver-26.2.4-1-x86_64 7.7 MiB 470 KiB/s 00:17 [FHRRRRRRARIR RR RRRRRRRRRARARRS) 100% smbclient-2:4.24.5-1-x86_64 7.3 MiB 323 KiB/s 00:23 [FAAARRRRRRARRRRARBRRRRRRRRLRRAA R242] 100% glib2-2.88.3-1-x86_64 5.0 MiB 874 KiB/s 00:06 [#ARRARBRAFHAIRRIR RA RARARARARARS) 100% Total ( 10/125) 128.4 MiB 4.56 MiB/s 00:28 [HHH RRR RRA RAARRRRRRRRIRRARRAR S42) 100% pit? error: failed retrieving file 'qt6-tools-6.11.1-4-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst.sig’ from mirror.23m.com : Operation too I slow. Less than 1 bytes/sec transferred the last 10 seconds § error: failed retrieving file "binutils-2.47-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst.sig’ from mirror.23m.com : Operation too slo W. Less than 1 bytes/sec transferred the last 10 seconds online clirkaEtEE failed retrieving file 'glib2-2.88.3-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst' from mirror.23m.com : Operation too slow, Le ‘ g ss than 1 bytes/sec transferred the last 10 seconds § warning: too many errors from mirror.23m.com, skipping for the remainder of this transaction { ll error: failed retrieving file ‘intel-media-driver-26.2.4-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst.sig’ from mirror.23m.com : Opera tion too slow. Less than 1 bytes/sec transferred the last 10 seconds SARVEERMIs warning: failed to retrieve some files error: failed to commit transaction (download library error) MW Errors occurred,
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Developer 8/8/2026, 11:23:31 AM
Slow internet. Try again
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user 8/8/2026, 11:23:51 AM
(OCR from image) London | v2 LN XN J ~ : zsh — Konsole ) 8 9 => Running build hook: [modconf] EES -> Running build hook: [block] 2 3 ==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: 'qla2xxx’ 8 2 2 ==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: 'qed’ ==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: ‘'qla1280’ ==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: 'wd719x’ ==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: 'aic94xx’ ==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: 'bfa’ ==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: ‘xhci_pci_renesas’ -> Running build hook: [keyboard] -> Running build hook: [keymap] ~~ => Running build hook: [consolefont] E ==> WARNING: consolefont: no font found in configuration F -> Running build hook: [plymouth] -> Running build hook: [filesystems] pi -> Running build hook: [fsck] i ==> Generating module dependencies { ==> Creating zstd-compressed initcpio image: '/boot/initramfs-linux-fallbac -> Early uncompressed CPIO image generation successful ==> Initcpio image generation successful error: command failed to execute correctly (13/18) Reloading system bus configuration... io (14/18) Updating fontconfig cache... : (15/18) Compiling GSettings XML schema files... (16/18) Updating icon theme caches... g (17/18) Applying pear0OS lockscreen theme... 3 (18/18) Updating the desktop file MIME type cache... A barney@pear0S-machine ~ % T welcome » Install & Setup aeo=80 [LIL LJ ] ’
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Developer 8/8/2026, 11:24:26 AM
do NOT reboot sudo pacman -Syyuu then: ls /etc/mkinitcpio.d/ /boot
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user 8/8/2026, 11:26:24 AM
(OCR From image) /boot: efi grub initramfs-linux-fallback.img initramfs-linux.img vmlinuz-linux /etc/mkinitcpio.d/: linux-cachyos-lts.preset linux.preset
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Developer 8/8/2026, 11:26:53 AM
pacman -Qo /boot/vmlinuz-linux /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset pacman -Q | grep -E '^linux' ls /usr/lib/modules/
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Developer 8/8/2026, 11:27:31 AM
ls -la /boot/vmlinuz-linux-cachyos-lts
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user 8/8/2026, 11:27:42 AM
linux-cachyos-lts-6.x is up to date blah blah blah
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Developer 8/8/2026, 11:28:00 AM
after command with ls outputs something do this: sudo rm -f /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset /boot/vmlinuz-linux \ /boot/initramfs-linux.img /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img if the rm command exits correctly ( no errors) do these 2 commands: sudo mkinitcpio -P sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
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Developer 8/8/2026, 11:28:34 AM
sudo reboot sudo chwd -a after that, sudo modprobe -r bcma wl sudo modprobe wl
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user 8/8/2026, 11:28:46 AM
first command goes through fine, but im getting FATAL: Module bcma is in use and FATAL: Module wl not found
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Developer 8/8/2026, 11:29:21 AM
sudo pacman -S --needed linux-cachyos-lts-headers dkms broadcom-wl-dkms linux-firmware-broadcom sudo dkms autoinstall sudo mkinitcpio -P sudo reboot sudo modprobe -r brcmsmac brcmfmac b43 bcma ssb sudo modprobe wl lsmod | grep -E 'bcma|brcm|b43|ssb' sudo pacman -S --needed linux-cachyos-lts-headers dkms broadcom-wl-dkms linux-firmware-broadcom
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user 8/8/2026, 11:29:36 AM
wifi works now. Thank you