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Macbook Air wireless card replacement? (lemmy.kde.social)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have this old '13 air. It's outta support, so I run fedora instead of macos. It has BCM4630 for wireless (🖕 Broadcom), which had me manually install a rather unreliable driver to ever get it working. Yesterday I updated, and it can't find any networks anymore.

Instead of messing with broadcom drivers anymore, I'd rather replace the hardware with something better. Has anyone here tried this? Know what will work both in linux and macos, if I were to pass this thing to someone else later?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

You might check the ifixit website to see if they sell an upgrade. Or do an internet search for the model and year of your MacBook with the phrase “airport card update”. I know there are wifi upgrade cards for the older Intel iMacs, so I wouldn’t be surprised if there are ones for the portables as well.

Tinkerdifferent.com is also a good place to ask or search. Hope this helps!