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Ouf. I came across a MacBook Pro mid 2012 edition that I had laying around. I had installed Linux Mint on it, but didn't remember the password and, hey, gotta have Gnome on a Mac, right? So I installed Fedora on it instead.
Turned out that Fedora does not recognize the wifi card in this machine! Linux Mint was connected, and had the Broadcom driver installed. But Fedora just says "No Wi-Fi adapter found" :/
Is there a list of distros with MBP Broadcom drivers?
I was sure that I could just connect via ethernet and install the Firmware app and then install the Broadcom firmware from there. But no, Firmware can not see the Broadcom chip!
But thankfully I found a guide on cyberciti.biz... Yeah, that sounds sketchy, but it worked! But it was a bit long, and Firmware still doesn't see the chip even now! So this is not ideal. Why is it so hard to install?
@forteller I think debian is great, but with some tinktering Void Linux will give you a bit more performence. tried on a x230 with 3.gen intel i5. its definately faster then fedora. but it may cause problems with the wifi driver because it doesn't use gnu libc. wising you luck for the last part
@forteller
Debian stable, select lxqt for the desktop
@forteller fedora with cinnamon is great
@forteller Følger da jeg har en av samme årgang maskin som jeg ikke slipper ut på nett fordi den ikke har fått sikkerhetsoppdateringer fra Apple på mange år, men som sikkert fint kan brukes til mye ennå. Ga den nytt batteri og SSD for fem år siden.
@forteller Jeg har en 2013-modell som hadde lignende problemer. Hvis du ikke får det til å virke etter rådene du allerede har fått, så skal jeg se om jeg klarer å grave fram notatene mine fra da jeg fikk løst det sist.
Du må nok i alle fall laste ned "non free"-pakkene fra https://rpmfusion.org/Configuration, og kanskje kjøre sudo dnf install broadcom-wl
Det er i alle fall håp. Lykke til!
@forteller My project nixbook installer will put in the broadcom drivers.
You need ethernet or a usb adapter to install, but once you reboot, the internal stuff works.
@forteller Fedora moment
If you can connect it over Bluetooth or USB tethering or over Ethernet then you can install the drivers after the fact
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