Wifi Issues with Fedora 40 on Mac Book pro 9.2

[Bernie]

Hi

So I inherited this old Mac Book Pro 9.2, I think its from 2012, any way I loaded Fedora 40 workstation on it.
At first the wifi card was not even recognised, weird, since the live USB version picked it up.
Anyhow, after much googling I eventually installed broadcom-wl updated and now it detects that there is a wifi card, creates a network interface but now it doesnt pick up any wifi SSID's .

Is there anything else I can check, update, a bit lost at the moment. I am hesitant to reload another distro as it might still happen, and want to use fedora.

Any help greatly appreciated.

TIA.

 

[Bernoldus Niemand]

Why? Just use the best *nix around. MacOS Sonoma.

 

[Bernie]

Why? Just use the best *nix around. MacOS Sonoma.

I think this hardware is way too old for Sonoma. I use Red Hat a lot at work, so just wanted something relatively familiar. But its not a deal breaker.

 

[Bernoldus Niemand]

I think this hardware is way too old for Sonoma. I use Red Hat a lot at work, so just wanted something relatively familiar. But its not a deal breaker.

OpenCore Legacy Patcher

Experience macOS just like before

dortania.github.io

 

[Rickster]

I have the same Macbook, Mid 2012 13" MD101.

I personally I wouldn't use the patcher, could cause issues, (hardware not good enough, laggy. etc)

 

[Nod]

You could try this: https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/fedora-linux-install-broadcom-wl-sta-wireless-driver-for-bcm43228/

 

[Virex]

Hi

So I inherited this old Mac Book Pro 9.2, I think its from 2012, any way I loaded Fedora 40 workstation on it.
At first the wifi card was not even recognised, weird, since the live USB version picked it up.
Anyhow, after much googling I eventually installed broadcom-wl updated and now it detects that there is a wifi card, creates a network interface but now it doesnt pick up any wifi SSID's .

Is there anything else I can check, update, a bit lost at the moment. I am hesitant to reload another distro as it might still happen, and want to use fedora.

Any help greatly appreciated.

TIA.

Download: https://res.cloudinary.com/darryl/raw/upload/v1618348509/b43_updated.zip

$ sudo mkdir /lib/firmware/b43
$ sudo cp <where you extracted the archive/*> /lib/firmware/b43
$ sudo modprobe -rv b43
$ sudo modprobe -v b43

 

[Bernie]

Thanks everyone for the replies and help. These suggestions did not help, but on googling further I found a post on fedora's forum that solved the issue. There is a known issue with the latest version of wpa_supplicant with regards to Mac Books. So the suggestion was to downgrade wpa_supplicate and add it as an exclusion for further upgrades when running dnf upgrade. When I did this, all is working.

Link to the post for reference:
https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/wi-fi-wouldnt-automatically-scan/127905

 

[Virex]

Thanks everyone for the replies and help. These suggestions did not help, but on googling further I found a post on fedora's forum that solved the issue. There is a known issue with the latest version of wpa_supplicant with regards to Mac Books. So the suggestion was to downgrade wpa_supplicate and add it as an exclusion for further upgrades when running dnf upgrade. When I did this, all is working.

Link to the post for reference:
https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/wi-fi-wouldnt-automatically-scan/127905

Install Gentoo

 

[SauRoNZA]

Why? Just use the best *nix around. MacOS Sonoma.

Too old for Sonoma.

But MacOS would be the best *nix distribution with no issues whatsoever.