I am running Linux on my macbook pro and it has a Broadcom BCM4360 wifi card. Problem is that the driver for it is proprietary (or more accurately, mostly proprietary with some of the source code available), quite outdated, and I couldn’t get it to work with Linux kernel v6.9.5.
I am running Gentoo Linux on my macbook with a custom kernel. I previously had wifi working, but then I reinstalled Gentoo (because I wanted to do full disk encryption), copied over the kernel config file from my previous install (which I knew had working wifi), migrated it to a newer kernel version (plus added support for full disk encryption) and now the wifi drivers won’t even compile.
So, I was thinking of replacing the current wifi card with something that has modern and open-source drivers for it. Is it possible to do that on a Macbook pro 11,2 (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013)? If so, are there any compatible wifi cards with open source drivers for Linux?
How about an USB WiFi adapter?
Replace? MacBook? Er, I‘m afraid I’ve got to tell you something …
It’s just mini pcie. As far as I know there isn’t any whitelisting.
They’re cheap little things, buy one with Linux support and see if it works!
I had a terrible time getting wifi working on my Macbook Pro from about the same year. 2012, I think. It semi-worked but was horrifically unreliable and slow.
In the end I just got a tiny USB wifi dongle and plugged it in, rather than using the internal wifi card.
An alternative always is to use the LTS kernel, currently 6.6
That one may break less often.