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Broadcom BCM4360 on Linux

Linux: Manjaro
Kernel: 6.3.5
Card: Broadcom BCM4360 (14e4:43a0)
Driver: WL

The only driver(1) that works for these boards is the WL driver (aka broadcom-wl, broadcom-sta), but it has the problem, at least in my case, of presenting a very unstable connection. To solve this, the possibility of working with a 40Mhz bandwidth in the 2.4Ghz band is disabled (2).

Driver installation:

# pacman -S linux63-broadcom-wl (recommended for the kernel version I have installed)
or
# pacman -S broadcom-wl-dkms (doesn't work as well with the other previous case)

Check if the configuration file is created that blacklists the modules in conflict with this driver. Otherwise, create a file in /etc/modprobe.d/broadcom-wl.conf with the following content:

blacklist b43
blacklist b43legacy
blacklist ssb
blacklist bcm43xx
blacklist brcm80211
blacklist brcmfmac
blacklist brcmsmac
blacklist bcma

Disable 40mhz bandwidth on the 2.4ghz band

Create the module configuration file in /etc/modprobe.d/cfg80211.conf , with the content:

options cfg80211 cfg80211_disable_40mhz_24ghz=Y

Save file and reboot the computer

This works for me and I hope it works for you too!!!

References

(1)https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx

(2)https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/provide-wpa-supplicant-conf-to-networkmanager-to-disable-5ghz/29598

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2014-June/450630.html

https://wiki.debian.org/wl

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