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MacBook Pro Wifi on Fedora 24.md

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

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.

Troubleshooting

  • lsmod to list all kernel modules
  • sudo modprobe wl will force the wireless kernel extension to load.
  • sudo systemctl restart NetworkManager
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