The current kernel/drivers of Fedora 24 do not support the Wifi chip used on my Mac Book Pro. Proprietary Broadcom drivers are packaged and available in the rpmfusion repo.
Verify that your card is a Broadcom using: lspci -vnn -d 14e4:
Sample output:
02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4360 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter [14e4:43a0] (rev 03)
Install the rpmfusion repo, note only "nonfree" is required, as the Broadcom Driver is proprietry: http://rpmfusion.org/
su -c 'dnf install -y http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm'
Then install the akmods
and kernel-devel
packages (special thanks to @celsom3 for providing this):
sudo dnf install -y akmods "kernel-devel-uname-r == $(uname -r)"
Finally install broadcom-wl
package from the rpmfusion repo, which will install kmod-wl, akmod-wl, and other dependencies.
sudo dnf install -y broadcom-wl
Next run akmods
to rebuild the kernel extension in the broadcom-wl
package:
sudo akmods
Finally, reboot
Fedora.
lsmod
to list all kernel modulessudo modprobe wl
will force the wireless kernel extension to load.sudo systemctl restart NetworkManager
Trying this on a late 2009 Mac Mini with Fedora Server 36.
After running akmods, I saw the following on dmesg:
[ 1251.670088] wl: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel.
[ 1251.670097] wl: module license 'MIXED/Proprietary' taints kernel.
[ 1251.670099] Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
[ 1251.676955] wl: module verification failed: signature and/or required key missing - tainting kernel
That made me a little nervous but there were no more dmesg like that any more after review (not sure what happened).
After finding out how to configure the wireless adapter (BCM4321, btw.) headless via nmcli it's now working fine.