no wifi on MacBook Air running Fedora from bootable flash drive

adityavpratap · 07-19-2022, 04:13 AM

Hi!

I wanted to try out Fedora on my MacBook Air, so I created a bootable flash drive with Fedora on it.

I was able to boot into Fedora. As I didn't want to actually install Fedora over macOS, I continued to run it from the flash drive. Everything worked fine except I could not find a way to enable wifi. This is a big problem as MacBook Air doesn't have ethernet card. Is there way I can get wifi to work?

Regards,

TB0ne · 07-19-2022, 08:07 AM

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Originally Posted by adityavpratap

Hi!
I wanted to try out Fedora on my MacBook Air, so I created a bootable flash drive with Fedora on it. I was able to boot into Fedora. As I didn't want to actually install Fedora over macOS, I continued to run it from the flash drive. Everything worked fine except I could not find a way to enable wifi. This is a big problem as MacBook Air doesn't have ethernet card. Is there way I can get wifi to work?

Most likely, yes, but you haven't given us any details. You don't tell us what year/model Macbook you're using, or what version of Fedora. The chipset support for those wifi cards are probably available, but may need download separately.

adityavpratap · 07-19-2022, 08:31 AM

My bad!

I was trying to run Fedora 36 on my 13 inch Mac Book Air (2017 model).

TB0ne · 07-19-2022, 08:51 AM

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Originally Posted by adityavpratap

My bad! I was trying to run Fedora 36 on my 13 inch Mac Book Air (2017 model).

Ok, so run "lsusb -v | grep Wireless" and post what it returns. Chances are it's Broadcom, and you can try to download this:
https://fedora.pkgs.org/36/rpmfusion...oarch.rpm.html

...save it to another USB drive, and install it using either the rpm command or dnf. If you're running solely on the USB drive, just reboot, and see what happens.