Finally decided to convert to the penguin. I have live booted mint from a usb, without installing it yet, on a macbook pro 2017. But none of the WiFi networks in my apartment are showing, except for a few weak ones. Help a newbie out :)

Edit: To clarify it is not installed yet. Just used it from a live usb.

Edit 2: Used phone as tether for internet and went through all managers. But none had any updates that worked. I also tried installing b43 and after that wl. But both did nothing on the live usb boot, I assume since modprobe doesn’t do anything on a live boot. But I ain’t installing if it won’t even work on the live boot.

@RedNight left a link that suggests this macbook, version 14.2, wifi doesn’t work with linux. https://github.com/Dunedan/mbp-2016-linux

Final edit: Fedora also didn’t work. So it’s a hardware compatibility issue.

TLDR: If u have a macbook 2017 version 14.2 the wifi won’t work on linux so don’t try.

  • vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    7 months ago

    Check your region settings. Maybe you are not listening on the right channels for your country.

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      7 months ago

      The weird thing is that it picks up 1 or 2 wifi from my neighbours but really weak like 9%. But it doesn’t seem te scan my own.