INo recovery wifi after fresh Leap install

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I have no wifi after my Leap install last night. lsmod
shows my b43 module . And I did modprobe b43. Turned wifi antenna on and off. What else do I need to do?

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Hi, welcome to these forums.

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Ok. I found my wifi router password is not being saved
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inxi -n
Network:
Device-1: Broadcom NetLink BCM5906M Fast Ethernet PCI Express driver: tg3
IF: eth0 state: down mac: 00:21:9b:e5:fe:26
Device-2: Broadcom BCM4321 802.11a/b/g/n driver: b43-pci-bridge
dougrrr@localhost:~>

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AFAIK for this WIFI card you need the broadcom-wl packages from the Packman repo.

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Yeah I have bcm4360 in an macbook air running tumbleweed and I have to use the package @knurpht mentioned for my wifi to work. If there is a kernel update pushed to me I usually have to wait for Packman to push a broadcom-wl update as well before I can do the kernel update or I reboot to no wifi.

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For broadcom-wl:

Not really.
If the changes in the kernel are not related to the Driver, it should work after kernel-Update out of the box without installing a new driver.

But if f. e. the kernel changes from one Version to another (6.14 to 6.15) it will break.

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Ahh yes this is what happens to me. Thank you for clearing that up. I should have mentioned it like that. Thanks again.