#mac mini 2011

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Install Wifi Drivers on Fedora Fedora Linux 43 (Forty Three) for Mac Mini 2011

You will need to connect to Ethernet to download packges

Make sure you update your fedora first

sudo dnf install --refresh -y https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm sudo dnf update

reboot

afterwards:

sudo dnf install -y akmod-wl

This is to avoid wifi disconnections do to power save

sudo tee /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/00-wifi-powersave.conf << EOF > /dev/null [connection] wifi.powersave=2 EOF

sudo reboot Hopefully after that it should work please note you will need to have a proper fedora version no self compiled kernel version.

[macunan]

Install Wifi Drivers for MAC Mini 2011 Ubuntu/Lubuntu Linux

1) Open Console make sure your kernel is not the latest one also change to Ethernet if wifi not working I love this Linux Distro based on Lubuntu with some touches www.lxle.net installer allows you to connect to wifi in MAC Mini but 2.4G only you can copy installer to bootable pendrive.

2)  sudo apt install -y linux-headers-$(uname -r) && sudo apt install -y broadcom-sta-common broadcom-sta-source broadcom-sta-dkms

3) Reboot and  enjoy 2.4G and 5 G since default driver only gave you  2.4 G

lsmod

bnep                   20480  2 btusb                  45056  0 btrtl                  16384  1 btusb btbcm                  16384  1 btusb btintel                16384  1 btusb bluetooth             520192  33 btrtl,btintel,btbcm,bnep,btusb,rfcomm ecdh_generic           24576  2 bluetooth joydev                 24576  0 input_leds             16384  0 zram                   24576  8 binfmt_misc            20480  1 nls_iso8859_1          16384  1 ip6t_REJECT            16384  1 nf_reject_ipv6         16384  1 ip6t_REJECT nf_log_ipv6            16384  5 wl                   6447104  0 xt_hl                  16384  22 ip6t_rt                16384  3 cfg80211              634880  1 wl   --> cool wifi snd_hda_codec_hdmi     49152  1 snd_hda_codec_cirrus    20480  1 snd_hda_codec_generic    73728  1 snd_hda_codec_cirrus nf_conntrack_ipv6      20480  8 nf_defrag_ipv6         20480  1 nf_conntrack_ipv6 ipt_REJECT             16384  1 nf_reject_ipv4         16384  1 ipt_REJECT nf_log_ipv4            16384  5 nf_log_common          16384  2 nf_log_ipv4,nf_log_ipv6 xt_LOG                 16384  10 xt_limit               16384  13 xt_tcpudp              16384  18 xt_addrtype            16384  4 snd_hda_intel          45056  3 snd_hda_codec         126976  4 snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec_cirrus snd_hda_core           81920  5 snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_codec_cirrus snd_hwdep              20480  1 snd_hda_codec applesmc               20480  0 input_polldev          16384  1 applesmc snd_pcm                98304  4 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hd