Hi,

I ecently jumped back onto linux as i was an avid user 5-7 years ago. I was on Arch, then Ubuntu for awhile. I wanted to get back into it as something to do during the covid times.

I just installed stable neon on my 2018 MacBook pro and holy cr*p, Broadcom drivers are absolutely trash. I think I’m using the free (open source?) driver’s but they are just useless. My current predicament is that i need to switch to the proprietary broadcom drivers but i can’t even download anything because it’s just so slow!

My 5ghz bands don’t work, the 2.4 band refuses to connect and even a hotspot from my phone is dead **** slow doing anything. Even apt-get update times out

The chip i believe is a BCM 43602. I do not have an usb-c to ethernet adapter so what are my options?

- Are there any pre built (unofficial) images that contain the proprietary Broadcom drivers?
- How else can i install the driver’s? Perhaps download the deb’s when booted in Mac and install manually in OS?

Kinda against a hard place here, i thought these lil issues wouldn’t be so difficult anymore, especially since Wi-Fi is such a common and basic feature nowadays.

Being a Mac, it may be a bit more than just a driver - possibly the firmware is different as well.

this may or may not be helpful but but should be a bit informative, at least.
https://unix.stackexchange.com/question ... it-connect

You may have better results asking on a more *buntu specific place, or even better, a Linux-on-Macs community, for more hands-on experience with this hardware.