Edit: https://lemmy.kde.social/post/1921123

I have this old '13 air. It’s outta support, so I run fedora instead of macos. It has BCM4630 for wireless (🖕 Broadcom), which had me manually install a rather unreliable driver to ever get it working. Yesterday I updated, and it can’t find any networks anymore.

Instead of messing with broadcom drivers anymore, I’d rather replace the hardware with something better. Has anyone here tried this? Know what will work both in linux and macos, if I were to pass this thing to someone else later?

  • @RockyC@lemm.eeEnglish
    4•4 months ago

    I am having this exact same problem on my MacBook Air running Ultramarine Linux, a Fedora derivative.

    I finally gave up and plugged in a Panda USB Wi-Fi adapter. Not ideal, but it works.

    • @sevonOP
      2•4 months ago

      Thankfully I also had an old usb dongle on hand. I don’t want to leave it like that because it ate 50% of my two available usb ports.

    • @sevonOP
      2•4 months ago

      If you’re still looking to free your USB port, I have now confirmed that this upgrade works!