How can I get WiFi working on my 2013 MacBook Pro WITHOUT internet at all?
I've got an old 2013 MacBook. It's only got 256GB of storage, most of which was just taken up by Mac OSX Catalina. No program supports that OS anymore, and updating it means losing more storage space, so I decided it's time to try Linux!
I downloaded Fedora 44 KDE Plasma, installed it, and realized I have no WiFi. Welp.
Googling it, most "fixes" require going on the internet to download or update some packages via the terminal. But how? USB tethering via my phone worked only once - after rebooting, it never worked again. And apparently my TP-Link USB WiFi dongle is ALSO not supported.
I tried going on some RPMFusion website (I don't even know what that is for), downloaded free and nonfree repositories (??), but when I try to open them, they just open the Settings, and they do nothing - or they error and say they can't update. I lost track of what I did and DIDN'T do just to try and get stuff working.
So now I'm stuck. No WiFi, no bluetooth (at first boot, it did have BT, strangely), no audio.
What can I do? Is there a driver I can simply download from another computer and put that on the MacBook? I'm pretty close to regretting this decision.
EDIT: FIXED!!
What I did:
- Upon first install, use USB tethering (rebooting at this point screws it up)
- Install the RPM Fusion Free repository
- Install the RPM Fusion Non-free repository
- Update via DNF
- Reboot
- Install broadcom-wl
- Reboot