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E: I AM NOT USING FEDORA. Please stop linking to guides for Fedora. They will not work. uBlue/Bazzite does not use dnf.


I got a free iMac. Installed Linux on an external drive. Bazzite, specifically. WiFi does not work. My research leads me to a problem with proprietary Broadcom drivers but no solutions. If you know how to get this working, your advice would be appreciated.

Also if there's another distro that works "out of the box" on Macs with GNOME I'd be open to installing that as well.

E: "System information" says it is a

Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (7.77.111.1 AirPortDriverBrcmNIC-1772.1)

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https://docs.bazzite.gg/Installing_and_Managing_Software/rpm-ostree/

I'd also Google how to add the repo you need.

The only distros I've found that carry the broadcom drivers at install are the Ubunto families

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Can you add the repo and then use whatever package manager you have to install the drivers from it?

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