E: I AM NOT USING FEDORA. Please stop linking to guides for Fedora. They will not work. uBlue/Bazzite does not use dnf.


I got a free iMac. Installed Linux on an external drive. Bazzite, specifically. WiFi does not work. My research leads me to a problem with proprietary Broadcom drivers but no solutions. If you know how to get this working, your advice would be appreciated.

Also if there’s another distro that works “out of the box” on Macs with GNOME I’d be open to installing that as well.

E: “System information” says it is a

Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (7.77.111.1 AirPortDriverBrcmNIC-1772.1)

  • UlrichOP
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    120 days ago

    What does power management have to do with wireless cards?

    • @muusemuuse@lemm.ee
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      119 days ago

      wireless cards have their own power management settings that typically arent shown in the GUI and in linux the defaults for some of them are so aggressive they cause problems. Intels are notorious for this but some older broadcom cards had this problem too.

      • UlrichOP
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        119 days ago

        So if the wireless card draws too much power it won’t be visible?

        • @muusemuuse@lemm.ee
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          19 days ago

          Opposite problem. Some wireless cards have unstable low power modes that get turned on anyway.

          • UlrichOP
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            119 days ago

            Interesting, thanks for that perspective.