I'm having trouble with wifi with two macbook airs from 2011 and 2013. Those broadcomm chipsets are simply not maintained anymore well on the linux kernel. The solution: a $5 usb wifi adapter. Works wonders (blacklist first the internal wifi).
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I am running linux mint on a 2014 macbook air (works great btw) do you have any recommendations for a wifi adapter? I am aware of the following: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07PB1X4CN/ This one isn't $5 however.
buncha folks are running linux on macbooks, but their experience will be of little use to you as T2 macbooks are hella complicated in that regard.
the wifi going away, unless it's the published fix on t2linux (restart NetworkManager on resume via systemd), is something you need to describe in more detail.
never had/heard issues wrt trackpad, I'd have to look into that.
not waking after sleep promptly is due to softlocks on the CPU; it will wake eventually. if you're not happy with that, there's a short script that shuts all cores off prior to standby and reactivates them on wake; that puts the wake time to a coupla seconds.
t2 mac, correct? see https://wiki.t2linux.org/guides/hybrid-graphics/#suspend-workaround for suspend. as for wifi, are you using brcmfmac? you can check with lspci -kk | grep -A 3 Network. you may also have to disable bluetooth, i've heard of it causing wifi issues.
Indeed t2. I'll try again but already followed their guide 🥸
I run Fedora Workstation on a 2012 MacBook Pro and enabling rpm fusion to get the Broadcom drivers was enough.
I had to repeat the operation once or twice in 3-4 years but otherwise it’s been smooth sailing.
I haven’t tried sleep mode though as I always turn off the computer.