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Re: How do I set up broadcom-wl drivers?

Reply #30 –
You failed your installation, it has nothing to do with the original topic

Re: How do I set up broadcom-wl drivers?

Reply #31 –
Perhaps Manjaro is more suitable.

Re: How do I set up broadcom-wl drivers?

Reply #32 –
I installed Artix with Calamares again.
I tried installing the tar file from a mirror, and this time, it worked, but the networks don't show up in Network Manager. When I run ping or pacman -Sy, it just stalls forever and doesn't show an error.

Re: How do I set up broadcom-wl drivers?

Reply #33 –
Update: My Wifi seems to be working now, so thank you! I installed drivers through the tar. After installing that, I found out that the wifi was soft-blocked, so I ran
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# rfkill unblock wifi
to unblock it.

But now, when I two to install something with pacman, it says
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error: target not found: <package>
. When I run
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# pacman -Syu
, I get a long list of errors where every line is something like:
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<some_package>: /path/to/file exists in filesystem
. For example, one of them was this:
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linux-formware: /usr/lib/firmware/amd/amdgpu/beige_goby_ce.bin exists in filesystem
. Also, before it shows the list of packages to update, it gives another long list saying
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error: duplicated database entry '<package>'
.

Thank you for the help, once again!

Re: How do I set up broadcom-wl drivers?

Reply #34 –
You can (carefully) use the --overwrite option with pacman to overwrite files installed manually without using pacman, but read the warnings on and linked from this page, this is not something required frequently:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/pacman
In particular the section: "Failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)" error
There are various examples of this in use to be found searching around e.g.:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/490949/pacman-filename-exists-in-filesystem
Not sure it will fix all the errors, but it could be a start if it runs without needing to fix anything else first.