I've recently purchased a AC1300 Wireless Dual Band PCI Express Adapter(Archer T6E)
. It uses a Broadcom chip (BCM4360 802.11ac).
I have a fresh Ubuntu 18.04 and installed the driver from Software & Updates -> Additional Drivers (bcmwl-kernel-source)
.
In my Settings -> Wi-Fi
I see SSIDs of my 2.4Ghz networks (although I have a 5GHz network and I can't see it).
My 2.4GHz network uses WPA2
. When I enter the password for the network, it tries to connect to it, but after a minute it fails and ask for the password again.
Then I created a Hotspot using my iPhone, and the system connects to it in seconds.
I'm sure the password is correct, I've reset my router, changed its password, and also tried to connect to another router with the same security config.
I even shared my Ethernet connection from my MacBook through wifi (with no password), but it wasn't able to connect to it either.
So far the only wireless network that I've been able to connect to is iPhone's hotspot.
sudo lshw -c network
*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: BCM4360 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter
vendor: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:04:00.0
logical name: wlp4s0
version: 03
serial: 50:3e:aa:71:a4:81
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=wl0 driverversion=6.30.223.271 (r587334) ip=172.20.10.13 latency=0 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11
resources: irq:18 memory:a4400000-a4407fff memory:a4200000-a43fffff
lspci
04:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries BCM4360 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter (rev 03)
rfkill list all
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: brcmwl-0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
sudo iwlist wlp4s0 scan
Cell 01 - Address: E6:9A:DC:7D:4E:12
Channel:6
Frequency:2.437 GHz (Channel 6)
Quality=70/70 Signal level=-33 dBm
Encryption key:on
ESSID:"My's iPhone"
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Bit Rates:6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s
Mode:Master
Extra:tsf=0000000000000000
Extra: Last beacon: 96ms ago
IE: Unknown: 000E4D616864692773206950686F6E65
IE: Unknown: 010882848B962430486C
IE: Unknown: 030106
IE: Unknown: 200100
IE: Unknown: 23021100
IE: Unknown: 2A0100
IE: Unknown: 32040C121860
IE: IEEE 802.11i/WPA2 Version 1
Group Cipher : CCMP
Pairwise Ciphers (1) : CCMP
Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
IE: Unknown: 2D1A2D0017FFFF000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
IE: Unknown: 3D1606000400000000000000000000000000000000000000
IE: Unknown: 7F080400000000000040
IE: Unknown: DD0A0017F206010103010000
IE: Unknown: DD0D0017F206020106E49ADC7D4E13
IE: Unknown: DD090010180201001C0000
IE: Unknown: DD180050F2020101800003A4000027A4000042435E0062322F00
Cell 02 - Address: 6C:AD:EF:05:63:04
Channel:5
Frequency:2.432 GHz (Channel 5)
Quality=64/70 Signal level=-46 dBm
Encryption key:on
ESSID:"3M-WiFi-connection"
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
18 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Bit Rates:6 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s
Mode:Master
Extra:tsf=0000000000000000
Extra: Last beacon: 96ms ago
IE: Unknown: 0012334D2D736C6F772D636F6E6E656374696F6E
IE: Unknown: 010882848B961224486C
IE: Unknown: 030105
IE: Unknown: 32040C183060
IE: Unknown: 0706555320010B14
IE: Unknown: 33082001020304050607
IE: Unknown: 33082105060708090A0B
IE: Unknown: 050400010000
IE: Unknown: 2A0106
IE: Unknown: 2D1AEE1117FFFF0000010000000000000000000000000C0000000000
IE: Unknown: 3D1605000500000000000000000000000000000000000000
IE: Unknown: 4A0E14000A002C01C800140005001900
IE: IEEE 802.11i/WPA2 Version 1
Group Cipher : TKIP
Pairwise Ciphers (2) : TKIP CCMP
Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
IE: Unknown: DD180050F2020101000003A4000027A4000042435E0062322F00
IE: Unknown: 0B05010015127A
IE: Unknown: DD07000C4307000000
I also ran dmesg -w
and switched from hotspot
to router
. When theconnection fails and it asks for a password again, if I cancel it I'll see a IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlp4s0: link is not ready
, and then when it reconnects to hotspot
I see IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlp4s0: link becomes ready
.
I also tried to disable IPv6 all together from /etc/sysctl.conf
, but it didn't change anything.
P.S: After reading this, I ended up installing bcmwl-kernel-source
and also firmware-b43-installer
non of them fixed my problem.
Because the system works fine with Hotspot, I'm assuming that this is less than a driver issue and more of a configuration issue!
iw reg set US
to set my regulatory region to US. Also I sat channel 48 in my router config. – mmohaveri Jul 26 '19 at 23:14