I did tried it later on. It didn't seem to have any affect other than changing between the free and Broadcom's driver. But that I had done it with Mageia's tools, also (running the Live iso --> setting repositories --> using drakrpm).
Note that this advice was about the Live version, which was not my main concern. Just for testing.
And I did a lot of testing. I even used other linux distributions. And I read stuff here and there. So my conclusion is that this is a driver issue.
No need to go through all that again...
Which brings us to...
doktor5000 wrote:For starters and to get a current status quo, please provide the following information.
Which desktop environment are you using? Do you use net_applet or NetworkManager?
And please provide the output of the following commands:
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lspcidrake -v | grep -i -e net -e wireless -e wifi
ps -ef | grep -v grep | grep -ie net -e wpa
and, as root:
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ifconfig -a
rfkill list all
systemctl status network.service -a
journalctl -ab | grep -iE "fw|firmware|iwl|wifi|wire|80211"
Combined with...
doktor5000 wrote:I believe you cannot easily downgrade drivers, as those are dependent on a specific kernel version and underlying structures. The driver in question comes as a kernel module I believe.
As I feared, this is beyond my capabilities, since the solution is going to include words like "compile".
But still, thank you doktor5000 for clearing that up.