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akagrimus

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Registered: 2022-01-11

Posts: 2

Installing Q4OS on older Macbook Air (Model A1465) - Wifi Not Working

Hi There,

I installed Q4OS on an older Lenovo Yoga laptop and it went great. Everything worked and away I went. Connected to Wifi and starting running.

Then I installed Q4OS on an older Macbook Air (Model A1465) and I could not connect to Wifi. The card is seen based on the INXI. I am not sure what to do next as I am very new with Linux in general. Any help would be appreciated.

INXI ------

System:    Host: macbook-q4os Kernel: 5.10.0-9-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.20.5 Distro: Q4OS 4.6.1-n1
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: Apple product: MacBookAir7,1 v: 1.0 serial: <superuser required>
           Mobo: Apple model: Mac-9F18E312C5C2BF0B v: MacBookAir7,1 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: Apple
           v: MBA71.88Z.0166.B19.1702161608 date: 02/16/2017
Battery:   ID-1: BAT0 charge: 26.7 Wh condition: 33.2/38.8 Wh (86%)
CPU:       Info: Dual Core model: Intel Core i5-5250U bits: 64 type: MT MCP L2 cache: 3 MiB
           Speed: 800 MHz min/max: 500/2700 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800 4: 802
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 6000 driver: i915 v: kernel
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa resolution: 1366x768~60Hz
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 6000 (BDW GT3) v: 4.6 Mesa 20.3.5
Audio:     Device-1: Intel Broadwell-U Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
           Device-2: Intel Wildcat Point-LP High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
           Device-3: Broadcom 720p FaceTime HD Camera driver: N/A
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.10.0-9-amd64
Network:   Device-1: Broadcom BCM4360 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter driver: bcma-pci-bridge
Bluetooth: Device-1: Apple Bluetooth USB Host Controller type: USB driver: btusb
           Report: ID: hci0 state: up running bt-v: 2.1 address: 34:36:3B:83:90:4D
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 113 GiB used: 4.31 GiB (3.8%)
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Apple model: SSD SD0128F size: 113 GiB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 102.27 GiB used: 4.31 GiB (4.2%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2
           ID-2: /boot/efi size: 299.4 MiB used: 3.4 MiB (1.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1
Swap:      ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 8.24 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) dev: /dev/sda3
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 57.0 C mobo: N/A
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:      Processes: 163 Uptime: 37m Memory: 3.74 GiB used: 1.42 GiB (38.0%) Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.01

akagrimus

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Registered: 2022-01-11

Posts: 2

Re: Installing Q4OS on older Macbook Air (Model A1465) - Wifi Not Working

Just wanted to pass this information on for the next person who has trouble

Some older MacBook's use Broadcom wireless network cards. After running these 2 commands and restarting everything worked like a charm!

sudo apt-get update -y
sudo apt-get install -y broadcom-sta-dkms