wifi not working for Q4OS Andromeda

majortom · 2026-03-09 08:30

Hi all,

I installed the Andromeda release, the Plasma version. Everything fine except that wifi is not working, plasma-nm is installed, but the network manager applet shows an empty list. Ethernet works just fine, I used it for the installation. Wifi worked just fine before under Aquarius. I'm posting the output from inxi below. Any help is appreciated.

Tom

tommy:~$ inxi -SMCGxn
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
        LANGUAGE = "",
        LC_ALL = (unset),
        LC_CTYPE = (unset),
        LC_NUMERIC = "de_DE.UTF-8",
        LC_COLLATE = (unset),
        LC_TIME = "de_DE.UTF-8",
        LC_MESSAGES = (unset),
        LC_MONETARY = "de_DE.UTF-8",
        LC_ADDRESS = "de_DE.UTF-8",
        LC_IDENTIFICATION = "de_DE.UTF-8",
        LC_MEASUREMENT = "en_150.UTF-8",
        LC_PAPER = "en_150.UTF-8",
        LC_TELEPHONE = "de_DE.UTF-8",
        LC_NAME = "de_DE.UTF-8",
        LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to a fallback locale ("en_US.UTF-8").
System:
  Host: arrakis Kernel: 6.12.73+deb13-amd64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64
    compiler: gcc v: 14.2.0
  Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.3.6 Distro: Q4OS 6.5.1-deb13u1 base: Debian
    GNU/Linux 13 (trixie)
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: ASUSTeK product: G750JX v: 1.0
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: ASUSTeK model: G750JX v: 1.0 serial: <superuser required>
    UEFI: American Megatrends v: G750JX.209 date: 11/18/2013
CPU:
  Info: quad core model: Intel Core i7-4700HQ bits: 64 type: MT MCP
    arch: Haswell rev: 3 cache: L1: 256 KiB L2: 1024 KiB L3: 6 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 800 min/max: 800/3400 cores: 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800 4: 800
    5: 800 6: 800 7: 800 8: 800 bogomips: 38311
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GK106M [GeForce GTX 770M] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: nouveau
    v: kernel arch: Kepler-2 bus-ID: 01:00.0 temp: 38.0 C
  Device-2: Chicony USB2.0 HD UVC WebCam driver: uvcvideo type: USB
    bus-ID: 1-1.3:4
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.16 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.6 driver: X:
    loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa dri: nouveau gpu: nouveau
    resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
  API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: nouveau,swrast platforms:
    active: gbm,x11,surfaceless,device inactive: wayland
  API: OpenGL v: 4.5 compat-v: 4.3 vendor: mesa v: 25.0.7-2 glx-v: 1.4
    direct-render: yes renderer: NVE6
  API: Vulkan v: 1.4.309 drivers: llvmpipe surfaces: xcb,xlib devices: 1
  Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo
    de: kscreen-console,kscreen-doctor wl: wayland-info x11: xdriinfo,
    xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
Network:
  Device-1: Broadcom BCM4352 802.11ac Dual Band Wireless Network Adapter
    vendor: AzureWave driver: bcma-pci-bridge v: N/A bus-ID: 03:00.0
  Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros QCA8171 Gigabit Ethernet vendor: ASUSTeK
    driver: alx v: kernel port: d000 bus-ID: 04:00.0
  IF: enp4s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: e0:3f:49:da:3c:b0

q4osteam · 2026-03-09 08:57

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Please follow https://www.q4os.org/forum/viewtopic.php?id=4698 and post back.

majortom · 2026-03-09 09:15

I followed Tip 2 - Plasma, Trinity and other desktops. I ran nmtui, I can't see a list of available networks. Is the same as with the Plasma applet, nothing shows up to connect to. I clicked edit connection and I can only see ethernet, nothing else.

q4osteam · 2026-03-09 09:53

Install the Broadcom driver:
$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install broadcom-sta-dkms
Reboot

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wifi not working for Q4OS Andromeda

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