I’ve installed R1b4 on a 2012 MacBook Air and I can’t get wifi to work.
I tried the install-wifi-firmwares.sh script to no success. (No connectivity)
Any ideas?
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Use Ethernet or some of the supported USB wifi dongles. Haiku doesn’t support Broadcom, which Apple uses for wifi.
Check out Support for Realtek USB WiFi adapters now in nightlies - #6 by ilfelice
Would be nice if more hardware was supported. Broadcom isn’t exactly an uncommon wireless chipset provider. But for a temporary solution:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B08F2ZNC6J/ref=ox_sc_act_image_1?smid=A1XD92RMOQ336Y&psc=1
This worked for my 2012 MacBook Pro.
There is some more information about broadcom support in macs in this thread.
Anybody know of any recent progress or efforts towards this? I too would like to see good support for 2008-2018 Macs. With the recent switch to M1 arm64 chips, these ubiquitous Intel-based macs are plummeting in price and could be very nice Haiku machines.
I’m no driver developer, but I am experienced in embedded development and networking. If someone can point me in the right direction and assure me that this isn’t impossible, I’d be interested to contribute.
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I agree. I think hardware support efforts should be focused on older hardware that was popular. Pick a few popular vendors/models and focus on supporting them.
Hardware support is focused on whatever machines the developers writing drivers own and use. Currently we don’t have a lot of driver developper using Apple hardware.
And even with that focus, at least in my case, I decided to replace my 10 year old laptop with a new one, long before I could get everything on it 100% supported
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The recommended wifi dongle worked for me as well.