Hardware Switch does not detect any wireless networks

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I cannot connect to wifi at all after rebuilding my nand with choidujour. I downgraded to 6.0 and thats when I noticed no signals appearing. Ive rebooted, factory reset, completely remade my cfw on my sd card. updated through a couple of versions to see if that maybe fixed something and finally, I put Android on another sd card and booted that up to see if the problem followed me and it did.
I am at a loss, Ive scoured the internet and havent found much of anything so any help would be appreciated.
 
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So prior to the wifi problem I was stuck on the nintendo switch logo at boot while trying to boot both cfw or ofw. I let atmosphere update itself before that. Could that be at all related?
 
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Congrats. It's the BCM chip. I have another switch with that problem. You can check the components around the BCM chip and replace them if they're broken
 
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Before touching the hardware, check the router if the channel is not in manual, my Switch does not find wifi if it is in a channel above 11.
 
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I cannot connect to wifi at all after rebuilding my nand with choidujour. I downgraded to 6.0 and thats when I noticed no signals appearing. Ive rebooted, factory reset, completely remade my cfw on my sd card. updated through a couple of versions to see if that maybe fixed something and finally, I put Android on another sd card and booted that up to see if the problem followed me and it did.
I am at a loss, Ive scoured the internet and havent found much of anything so any help would be appreciated.

You used this tutorial and you followed the all steps ?
https://switch.homebrew.guide/usingcfw/manualchoiupgrade
 
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Yes. This was the only way I could get it to boot after I got stuck in boot the first time. I downgraded to 6.0 and that's when I found wifi not working.

I know it's not the channel on the router because I have 2 switches and the other one is fine and it was seeing wifi before the downgrade

Bluetooth is working fine.
 
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Oh, if Bluetooth is working it's not the BCM4356.
Maybe the WiFi antennas?
Can you create a WiFi hotspot while running Android?
 
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Oh, if Bluetooth is working it's not the BCM4356.
Maybe the WiFi antennas?
Can you create a WiFi hotspot while running Android?

Nope. I think it gave me the option for sharing my internet via bluetooth though. I tried going through all the developer settings in android to test or at least interact in some way with the wlan but none of those were working either.

EDIT: Sorry im not trying to fragment my story lol. So after I downgraded from 9.1 to 6.1 and noticed the wifi not working I wanted to see if updating would do anything so I used choidujourNX to move up to 8.0 and that worked fine but didnt solve the wifi so I moved up again to 9.0 and I got stuck on switch logo again. rinse and repeat. It worked perfectly fine before I let atmo go and update itself because I was being lazy
 
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Well... I have no idea what's wrong with it. If Bluetooth is working fine on Android it can't be the WiFi chip.
Can you use controllers in wireless mode?
 
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Well... I have no idea what's wrong with it. If Bluetooth is working fine on Android it can't be the WiFi chip.
Can you use controllers in wireless mode?
Joycons work. I havent tried pro controller but im sure it will. its bluetooth
 
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Okay I loaded up Ubuntu on my switch to see if I could get any more control over the hardware but I guess it would help if I knew more about how to use Linux. I was able to find this though..
 

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@jrandom which version of linux you used ?
Also you can try and run lspci -vvnn and look for the adapter, there you will be able to see if there any driven loaded for it, you can even reload the driver
 
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