I am running Linux on my macbook pro and it has a Broadcom BCM4360 wifi card. Problem is that the driver for it is proprietary (or more accurately, mostly proprietary with some of the source code available), quite outdated, and I couldn’t get it to work with Linux kernel v6.9.5.
I am running Gentoo Linux on my macbook with a custom kernel. I previously had wifi working, but then I reinstalled Gentoo (because I wanted to do full disk encryption), copied over the kernel config file from my previous install (which I knew had working wifi), migrated it to a newer kernel version (plus added support for full disk encryption) and now the wifi drivers won’t even compile.
So, I was thinking of replacing the current wifi card with something that has modern and open-source drivers for it. Is it possible to do that on a Macbook pro 11,2 (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013)? If so, are there any compatible wifi cards with open source drivers for Linux?
I just installed Pop!_OS on my Late-2011 and had to manually install broadcom drivers, maybe this will help.
https://www.reddit.com/r/pop_os/comments/oebqwm/pop_os_cant_detect_macbook_pro_2011_wifi/
https://alexswensen.io/blog/2020-12-09_popos-on-2011-macbook-pro
I’m not sure if the first link’s steps were necessary to enable the second step or not. And of course this is for Pop, so the Gentoo equivalent for Pop Shop, but I imagine there’s generally driver compatibility between linux distros?