Unable to get my PCE-AC56 working properly, but was only able to get it working and decently stable once
I've been trying to get my Asus PCE-AC56 to work with Linux Mint 18.3, which the wireless card has a Broadcom BCM4352 chip on it. I was able to at times, but it would run terrible when playing a game and give me terrible network speed, so I kept trying to find a solution to my speed issue, only for it to be to little to no avail.
I was able to actually get a really good speed out of the card with this (15Mb/s, usual internet speed)! But after I restart, just to be sure that it would work after a simple restart, it stopped working.
I tried to diagnose what was causing the card from not loading, hardware-wise, reported by ndiswrapper -l:
tried reinstalling
bcmwl-kernel-sourcevia Synaptic Package Manager;removing
blacklist bcm43xx,blacklist b43,blacklist b43legacyandblacklist ssbfrometc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf;checking the syslog from
/etc/log/syslogbut was too much to look through;
reinstalling
ndiswrapper,ndisgtk, and the driver for the card, which wasbcmwl6.inf;
- the wireless card would've also worked with
bcmwdi.inf, regardless of which, as I tested, from my Windows 10 drive, before I restarted
- the wireless card would've also worked with
All leading me here back to the same spot, with 'Wireless' in Network Manager nowhere to be found and unable to use my wireless network card.
What am I doing wrong (or did I do wrong) and how can I fix what I could've possibly broke?
EDIT: just in case, both iwconfig and ip addr never printed out a wlan0 nor a bcmwl6 (the second one which ndiswrapper -l outputs)
linux-mint wifi drivers 64bit pci
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I've been trying to get my Asus PCE-AC56 to work with Linux Mint 18.3, which the wireless card has a Broadcom BCM4352 chip on it. I was able to at times, but it would run terrible when playing a game and give me terrible network speed, so I kept trying to find a solution to my speed issue, only for it to be to little to no avail.
I was able to actually get a really good speed out of the card with this (15Mb/s, usual internet speed)! But after I restart, just to be sure that it would work after a simple restart, it stopped working.
I tried to diagnose what was causing the card from not loading, hardware-wise, reported by ndiswrapper -l:
tried reinstalling
bcmwl-kernel-sourcevia Synaptic Package Manager;removing
blacklist bcm43xx,blacklist b43,blacklist b43legacyandblacklist ssbfrometc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf;checking the syslog from
/etc/log/syslogbut was too much to look through;
reinstalling
ndiswrapper,ndisgtk, and the driver for the card, which wasbcmwl6.inf;
- the wireless card would've also worked with
bcmwdi.inf, regardless of which, as I tested, from my Windows 10 drive, before I restarted
- the wireless card would've also worked with
All leading me here back to the same spot, with 'Wireless' in Network Manager nowhere to be found and unable to use my wireless network card.
What am I doing wrong (or did I do wrong) and how can I fix what I could've possibly broke?
EDIT: just in case, both iwconfig and ip addr never printed out a wlan0 nor a bcmwl6 (the second one which ndiswrapper -l outputs)
linux-mint wifi drivers 64bit pci
edited yesterday
Rui F Ribeiro
38.8k1479128
asked Aug 13 at 6:59
M. Gonzalez
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I've been trying to get my Asus PCE-AC56 to work with Linux Mint 18.3, which the wireless card has a Broadcom BCM4352 chip on it. I was able to at times, but it would run terrible when playing a game and give me terrible network speed, so I kept trying to find a solution to my speed issue, only for it to be to little to no avail.
I was able to actually get a really good speed out of the card with this (15Mb/s, usual internet speed)! But after I restart, just to be sure that it would work after a simple restart, it stopped working.
I tried to diagnose what was causing the card from not loading, hardware-wise, reported by ndiswrapper -l:
tried reinstalling
bcmwl-kernel-sourcevia Synaptic Package Manager;removing
blacklist bcm43xx,blacklist b43,blacklist b43legacyandblacklist ssbfrometc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf;checking the syslog from
/etc/log/syslogbut was too much to look through;
reinstalling
ndiswrapper,ndisgtk, and the driver for the card, which wasbcmwl6.inf;
- the wireless card would've also worked with
bcmwdi.inf, regardless of which, as I tested, from my Windows 10 drive, before I restarted
- the wireless card would've also worked with
All leading me here back to the same spot, with 'Wireless' in Network Manager nowhere to be found and unable to use my wireless network card.
What am I doing wrong (or did I do wrong) and how can I fix what I could've possibly broke?
EDIT: just in case, both iwconfig and ip addr never printed out a wlan0 nor a bcmwl6 (the second one which ndiswrapper -l outputs)
linux-mint wifi drivers 64bit pci
edited yesterday
Rui F Ribeiro
38.8k1479128
asked Aug 13 at 6:59
M. Gonzalez
165
I've been trying to get my Asus PCE-AC56 to work with Linux Mint 18.3, which the wireless card has a Broadcom BCM4352 chip on it. I was able to at times, but it would run terrible when playing a game and give me terrible network speed, so I kept trying to find a solution to my speed issue, only for it to be to little to no avail.
I was able to actually get a really good speed out of the card with this (15Mb/s, usual internet speed)! But after I restart, just to be sure that it would work after a simple restart, it stopped working.
I tried to diagnose what was causing the card from not loading, hardware-wise, reported by ndiswrapper -l:
tried reinstalling
bcmwl-kernel-sourcevia Synaptic Package Manager;removing
blacklist bcm43xx,blacklist b43,blacklist b43legacyandblacklist ssbfrometc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf;checking the syslog from
/etc/log/syslogbut was too much to look through;
reinstalling
ndiswrapper,ndisgtk, and the driver for the card, which wasbcmwl6.inf;
- the wireless card would've also worked with
bcmwdi.inf, regardless of which, as I tested, from my Windows 10 drive, before I restarted
- the wireless card would've also worked with
All leading me here back to the same spot, with 'Wireless' in Network Manager nowhere to be found and unable to use my wireless network card.
What am I doing wrong (or did I do wrong) and how can I fix what I could've possibly broke?
EDIT: just in case, both iwconfig and ip addr never printed out a wlan0 nor a bcmwl6 (the second one which ndiswrapper -l outputs)
linux-mint wifi drivers 64bit pci
linux-mint wifi drivers 64bit pci
edited yesterday
Rui F Ribeiro
38.8k1479128
asked Aug 13 at 6:59
M. Gonzalez
165
edited yesterday
Rui F Ribeiro
38.8k1479128
asked Aug 13 at 6:59
M. Gonzalez
165
edited yesterday
Rui F Ribeiro
38.8k1479128
edited yesterday
Rui F Ribeiro
38.8k1479128
edited yesterday
Rui F Ribeiro
38.8k1479128
38.8k1479128
asked Aug 13 at 6:59
M. Gonzalez
165
asked Aug 13 at 6:59
M. Gonzalez
165
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Solution:
Worked after installing broadcom-sta-dkms, then purging it, installing bcmwl-kernel-source, then purging it.
The last few things I did was sudo apt purge ndis*, which removed any ndis-related packages,
then reinstalled bcmwl-kernel-source via Driver Manager (which got the WiFi working again, but I would rather use a Windows driver), reverting it back to not use any driver, then reinstall ndisgtk (and required dependencies) as mentioned here.
Finally, installing bcmwl6.inf via the NDISwrapper user interface and reconnecting to my router!
answered Aug 13 at 18:47
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Solution:
Worked after installing broadcom-sta-dkms, then purging it, installing bcmwl-kernel-source, then purging it.
The last few things I did was sudo apt purge ndis*, which removed any ndis-related packages,
then reinstalled bcmwl-kernel-source via Driver Manager (which got the WiFi working again, but I would rather use a Windows driver), reverting it back to not use any driver, then reinstall ndisgtk (and required dependencies) as mentioned here.
Finally, installing bcmwl6.inf via the NDISwrapper user interface and reconnecting to my router!
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Solution:
Worked after installing broadcom-sta-dkms, then purging it, installing bcmwl-kernel-source, then purging it.
The last few things I did was sudo apt purge ndis*, which removed any ndis-related packages,
then reinstalled bcmwl-kernel-source via Driver Manager (which got the WiFi working again, but I would rather use a Windows driver), reverting it back to not use any driver, then reinstall ndisgtk (and required dependencies) as mentioned here.
Finally, installing bcmwl6.inf via the NDISwrapper user interface and reconnecting to my router!
answered Aug 13 at 18:47
M. Gonzalez
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Solution:
Worked after installing broadcom-sta-dkms, then purging it, installing bcmwl-kernel-source, then purging it.
The last few things I did was sudo apt purge ndis*, which removed any ndis-related packages,
then reinstalled bcmwl-kernel-source via Driver Manager (which got the WiFi working again, but I would rather use a Windows driver), reverting it back to not use any driver, then reinstall ndisgtk (and required dependencies) as mentioned here.
Finally, installing bcmwl6.inf via the NDISwrapper user interface and reconnecting to my router!
answered Aug 13 at 18:47
M. Gonzalez
165
Solution:
Worked after installing broadcom-sta-dkms, then purging it, installing bcmwl-kernel-source, then purging it.
The last few things I did was sudo apt purge ndis*, which removed any ndis-related packages,
then reinstalled bcmwl-kernel-source via Driver Manager (which got the WiFi working again, but I would rather use a Windows driver), reverting it back to not use any driver, then reinstall ndisgtk (and required dependencies) as mentioned here.
Finally, installing bcmwl6.inf via the NDISwrapper user interface and reconnecting to my router!
answered Aug 13 at 18:47
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