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.

    • HotCoffee@lemm.eeOP
      2·
      2 months ago

      Great link mate. I think this explains why none of the suggestions are working.

      "The MacBook Pro models with Touch Bar come with a Broadcom Limited BCM43602 802.11ac Wireless LAN SoC (rev 02) which is also supported by brcmfmac, but has several issues rendering it unusable, caused by the available firmware. The issues are caused by failing country detection and are:

      -Only 2.4Ghz APs are shown -Connecting to an AP barely works or fails directly"

      • RedNight
        3·
        2 months ago

        Great. I’m glad you saw them. Yeah, I’ve been watching this device for years hoping for better support. The very technical manual WiFi fixes do seem to work, but I think a usb WiFi adapter might be more pleasant.