So what can you do next?Īs you can read in my article “ Bring your MacBook Aluminum Late 2008 back to life again with Linux“, I have been a very satisfied user of the OS X / macOS operating system for more than 10 years. But due to increasing hardware issues and lack of support by Apple, I looked for something different.
One of the things I did was to swap OS X on my still working MacBook with Linux Mint, which was a great decision.īring your MacBook Aluminum Late 2008 back to life again with Linuxīut there was a hurdle. The Broadcom BCM4322 Wireless Controller in the old Apple MacBook late 2008, is not automatically recognized by default during the Linux Mint installation process. But I knew from other websites that Linux Mint should work fine on this specific equipment. So the solution for me and probably for a lot of other devices is simple: if you have the opportunity to temporarily make a wired internet connection, then this issue can be solved within a few minutes by going through the below steps in Linux Mint.ġ) Connect your computer via a network cable.Ģ) Open the applications menu in Linux Mint.ģ) Choose Driver Manager under the Administration category and enter your password.Īfter a standard cache update takes place, Driver Manager displays an overview of device components that require a driver. Here hopefully a driver for your wireless adapter will be available. In the case of my macBook it did.Ĥ) Under Broadcom Corporation, select bcmwl-kernel-source for the recommended option. The operating system should now be restarted and Wi-Fi on this machine will then work perfectly. But what if it doesn’t? What if you still can’t bring your Wi-Fi back to life Of course the above example is based on my old macBook and the hardware in it, so in your specific case the above steps will hopefully show the right driver for your device. The above approach should be working for a lot of other wireless adapters as well, as more and more adapters are supported out of the box by included driver software. But there is a chance that you have a wireless adapter in your system for which this approach is not working. This could be a kind of an issue as many articles on the internet proves that there are still a lot of problems with Wi-Fi adapters getting to work in Linux. Therefore it is almost impossible to come up with good generic advice to solve problems with respect to specific adapters. But my articles on this website are there to make your Linux life a bit simpler, so if you don’t want to search yourself for solutions for your current not working internal or external Wi-Fi adapter, I simply advise you to buy an external Wi-Fi adapter that has proven to work perfectly fine with Linux (as Wi-Fi USB adapters are very cheap these days).
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