System and Network configuration • Re: Broadcom Wifi Drivers on Trixie on an old iMac - 14,1

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But then I rebooted and that's when I found the wl module wasn't there after the reboot. I tried

Code:

sudo modeprobe wl

and I got a message that wl was not in the directory where it should have been.

I went through the steps again and successfully added wl again. Rebooted. It is still there, after several reboots.

It's there - but now it won't log on to my wifi network! [..] My wifi is a mesh TP-Link Deco M9 system. I haven't had issues with other systems logging on to it. But this system is not connecting. When I make a change to the Wifi settings in KDE's Settings->Internet and Wifi, it tries to connect and I get a dialog (not sure how to paste an image in here) saying, 'Incorrect password for the wireless network "Imladris". Please try again.' I copy and paste the correct password in and it tries to connect and I get the dialog again and again.

I'm using WPA/WPA2 Personal and the Deco unit is set to WPA2 as well.

I did get a connection that one time, but can't get one now. (If it makes a difference, there are spaces in the password.)
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ETA: It appears the issue was a whitespace at the end of the password - apparently happened when I copied it, not once, but multiple times. Keeping that issue in, just in case it shows up again and it's something different.

You have been a MAJOR help on this! Thank you for all your patience!

• [Solved] Broadcom BCM4360 802.11ac Wifi Drivers on Trixie on an old iMac - 14,1

Statistics: Posted by Aki — 2026-02-23 07:25