FS#69173 - [broadcom-wl-dkms] Broadcom wifi driver not working after system upgrade

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Shalom Kramer (kpeace) - Friday, 01 January 2021, 16:20 GMT
Last edited by Eli Schwartz (eschwartz) - Friday, 01 January 2021, 20:14 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To Alexander F. Rødseth (xyproto)
Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig)
Architecture x86_64
Severity High
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
I used the broadcom-wl-dkms driver for my Wifi router for a long time with no problems.
After running a system upgrade (1/1/2021), Wifi stopped working.

Running `ip link` didn't show any wireless devices.

Running `modprobe wl` resulted in an error message:
`modprobe: FATAL: Module wl not found in directory /lib/modules/5.10.3-arch1-1`

Looking in /var/lib/dkms/broadcom-wl/6.30.223.271/build/make.log (attached) showed build failures.

uname -a
Linux peace 5.10.3-arch1-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun, 27 Dec 2020 10:50:46 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux

pacman -Qi linux
Name : linux
Version : 5.10.3.arch1-1

lspci -vnn -d 14e4:
02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries BCM4360 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter [14e4:43a0] (rev 03)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:85df]
Flags: fast devsel, IRQ 17
Memory at f7a00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32K]
Memory at f7800000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2M]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel modules: bcma

pacman -Qi broadcom-wl-dkms
Name : broadcom-wl-dkms
Version : 6.30.223.271-23
   make.log (7.8 KiB)
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Closed by  Eli Schwartz (eschwartz)
Friday, 01 January 2021, 20:14 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Friday, 01 January 2021, 16:32 GMT
Looks like -26 didn't get moved out of testing with the kernel.
Comment by Eli Schwartz (eschwartz) - Friday, 01 January 2021, 20:14 GMT
It's a dkms module, so it was not supposed to be moved with the kernel. It supports both old and new kernels (including e.g. lts), so it should have gotten moved as soon as it was confirmed to work at all.

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