# 9.3 installed on MacBook Early 2011...ethernet / wifi issues **URL:** \ **Category:** Rocky Linux Help & Support\ **Tags:** rocky-linux-9\ **Created:** [January 14, 2024, 6:49pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/9-3-installed-on-macbook-early-2011-ethernet-wifi-issues/12494 "2024-01-14T18:49:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jross\_mt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a698b9/32.png) [@jross\_mt](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/jross_mt)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2024, 6:49pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/9-3-installed-on-macbook-early-2011-ethernet-wifi-issues/12494/1 "2024-01-14T18:49:46Z")
Yesterday I successfully installed 9.3 of my old Early 2011 MacBook Pro. I followed the directions on [Linux sur un MacBook Pro 13″ de 2009 – Le blog technique de Microlinux](https://blog.microlinux.fr/linux-macbook-2009/) and after getting the disk set up right everything went well. I didn’t expect the wireless to work right out of the gate and it didn’t. Fortunately Macs back then had a real ethernet port and that came right up. I did the dnf group install of Server with Gui and that worked fine. I now have 3 kernels to choose from on boot: vmlinuz-5.14.0-362.13.1.el9\_3.x86\_64 vmlinuz-5.14.0-362.8.1.el9\_3.x86\_64 vmlinuz-0-rescue-ed37ab317b9b45c9a6a7f3e3a60f7791 The vmlinuz-5.14.0-362.13.1.el9\_3.x86\_64 boots with no sign of the ethernet. The vmlinuz-5.14.0-362.8.1.el9\_3.x86\_64 and the rescue kernel both boot with working ethernet. None of the three will bring up wifi for any devices I’ve tried, including the built in Broadcomm. I’ve got 2 usb wifi’s (one shows up as rt2800usb and the other as mt7601u) that look like they are loading and should work but neither makes any attempt to connect to our access point or shows anything with “nmcli device wifi list”. Any clues as to why that .13 kernel doesn’t bring up the ethernet or how I can fix that? Can I just delete that .13 kernel so the .8 is the one that boots automatically? And if anyone has any advice on how to get the wifi (any wifi!) working would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Jeff Ross ---
**Author:** ![jross\_mt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a698b9/32.png) [@jross\_mt](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/jross_mt)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2024, 6:58pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/9-3-installed-on-macbook-early-2011-ethernet-wifi-issues/12494/2 "2024-01-14T18:58:06Z")
Did a dnf update and got a new .13 kernel that boots up with ethernet so that part is fixed already. No change in the lack of wifi though. Jeff ---
**Author:** ![label](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@label](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/label)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2024, 7:29pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/9-3-installed-on-macbook-early-2011-ethernet-wifi-issues/12494/3 "2024-01-14T19:29:44Z")
You may find the wireless driver you need from [elrepo](https://elrepo.org). Or perhaps their kernel-lt or kernel-ml might have the wireless driver. You could probably try those. ---
**Author:** ![RL1000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ec9cab/32.png) [@RL1000](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/RL1000)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2024, 7:56pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/9-3-installed-on-macbook-early-2011-ethernet-wifi-issues/12494/4 "2024-01-14T19:56:19Z")
Since you have a Broadcom wifi card, you can try the following to install some Broadcom drivers: Install RPM Fusion non-free (I dont think you need the free) - you can do this by going to the site and following the links. [https://rpmfusion.org/](https://rpmfusion.org/) run sudo dnf install akmod-wl Reboot Hope that helps. ---
**Author:** ![jross\_mt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a698b9/32.png) [@jross\_mt](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/jross_mt)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2024, 12:20am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/9-3-installed-on-macbook-early-2011-ethernet-wifi-issues/12494/5 "2024-01-16T00:20:56Z")
Update… So far neither the elrepo kernels or the akmod-wl drivers have worked with _any_ of the 3 wifi adapters I have available. elrepo does find and load firmware for two of the three wifi adapters but none of them are getting an IP address from our open wifi network. I found a great source for using broadcom adapters on Ubuntu: > If the broadcom devices all require firmware can I just download the firmware files for ubuntu and install them on my rocky linux MacBook? It’s hard to imagine that of all the wifi adapters I’ve tried–including the ones the elrepo kernels found and then installed firmware for–fail to even attempt to get an IP address. It seems like I’m missing a bigger problem here but at this point I have no idea what that might be. Jeff ---
**Author:** ![jross\_mt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a698b9/32.png) [@jross\_mt](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/jross_mt)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2024, 6:30pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/9-3-installed-on-macbook-early-2011-ethernet-wifi-issues/12494/6 "2024-01-16T18:30:09Z")
I’ve got wifi working using one of the USB wifi adapters. It shows up as an mt7601u. As it turned out, all I had to do was ```auto nmcli radio wifi on ``` to enable wifi and it picked up the access point and got an IP address. And better yet it is comes up with the latest Rocky 9.3 kernel so no messing around with elrepo. Thanks for the replies nazunalika and RL1000! ---
**Author:** ![aleda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@aleda](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/aleda)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2024, 9:02am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/9-3-installed-on-macbook-early-2011-ethernet-wifi-issues/12494/7 "2024-01-17T09:02:39Z")
i also have issue with wifi and broadcom on alma linux 9.3 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/rockylinux/original/1X/91b7219eec10e30013422e4df76c1d898711a5d5.svg) [@system](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2024, 9:03am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/9-3-installed-on-macbook-early-2011-ethernet-wifi-issues/12494/8 "2024-03-17T09:03:32Z")
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