I got an unexpected question when installing a Debian Based Linux on my Late 2015 MacBook Air:
Detect network hardware
No Ethernet card was detected. If you know the name of the driver
needed by your Ethernet cars, you can select it from the list.
The list is huge.
Some of the notable names are:
- rtl8723ae: Realtek 8723e 802.11ax PCI wireless
- b43legacy: Broadcom 4400 10/100 PCI Ethernet
- adm8211: Driver for IEEE 802.11b wireless cards based on ADMtek ADM8211
I would restart and try to find information in it, but the installation was failing before ( tried more than 10 times), and it is working now. I don't wanna take any chances.
This is the only information I found in Apple's website :
Wireless: 802.11ac Wi-Fi wireless networking; IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n
compatible
What is the right driver? Thanks!
Best Answer
There is no such thing as a late 2015 MacBook Air model. I'm assuming you have the early 2015 model.
In that case your computer has a Broadcom BCM4360 chipset for WiFi.
The driver you would need in debian is the "wl" driver. You will probably need to install the broadcom-sta-dkms package manually and then load the wl driver.
The driver is non-free/binary-only so probably not listed during installation.