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Hi Guys Guess what?? Going bush seemed to clear my head. Came back and did more research and I'm happy to report that I'm typing this on my old Macbook Air 2015 which is now running Linux Mint LMDE 6 after finding a solution on another forum that suggested that LMDE 6 would install the needed...

Going bush for a few days :D Will follow up on @Brickwizard post when I return and look for a Deb installer I will return J

Hi Darry

All .fw files

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/19e7y7w6ndozdzq/b43_updated.zip?dl=1&token_hash=AAEELVjeW3iSm3d0ScTg17BSplJ01qhPGCkhav5o9EYiJA&expiry=1400713892 will look into that .sh stuff in the zipped file

No, as per post #27 I installed Ubuntu as I had read an article which seemed to fix this wifi problem. Not working for me lol See my later posts from 27 on Appreciate your time!

selected open and only got Open with Archive Manager or Open with other Application which listed Archive Manager and Software Install. Chose Software Install and it went and did something but when I checked in the Network Settings there was still only VPN and Network Proxy Trying a reboot Nope...

Thankyou, I downloaded that onto a USB Where should I copy it to on the Linux computer?

It was a zipped file - got the link from the article I was reading about it. I unzipped it and put the b43 folder into the home directory. where do I find the driver package?

Bit the bullet and decided that the best way to learn Linux is to install it and work through the issues. So I have installed Ubuntu (because I found what I thought was the answer to the wifi problem). I ran grep Network and identified that I needed to download the b43 drivers. Put them on a usb...

OK Guys - I've slept on it overnight and decided that I WILL NOT BE DEFEATED lol I come from an IT background (many, many years ago) working on mainframes (VM, MVS, JCL, JES2 etc) so I'm happy to fiddle around under the hood. I guess in my old age I thought I could just throw it on and it would...

Hi All and a good and prosperous New Year to you for 2024 I have decided to end my quest to install Linux on my old MacBook and have returned to the Apple OS. It wasn't just the Wifi issue, there were lots of other things that just didn't work. I even ran Elementary 5.1 Hera as I'd read...

Yes, when I was reading all the installation documentation it showed wifi but my installation never showed it. Think this might have to wait until tomorrow now. Nearly midnight here in NZ - first to see 2024 Happy New Year to you

Still doesn't work

Seriously too many dependencies for me to sit here and install them all!!! Really appreciate your time with this tho. Why is it soooo hard!!!!!! What am I doing so wrong?

Thanks but no hard-wire internet and as I mentioned the phone hotspot didn't work. Getting more than frustrated Should I try another distro or will this happen with any of them?

E: Unable to locate package bcmwi-kernel-source ?

OK, so I have my daughters old MacBook Air 2015, Model A1466 and I would really like to run Linux on it however, all my efforts so far have failed. Here is what I did: 1. Wiped the laptop to factory settings - actually, I think I completely wiped the disk as I recall having to go back in and...