I was recently given a 2019 MacBookPro 16.1 by my work. After some difficulty, I was able to successfully set it up to run Linux Mint 20.2 as the sole OS on the laptop (to make a long story short, dual-booting proved more difficulty than it was worth).
My next challenge, however, is able to get the wifi working. Right now, no wireless networks are detected when the machine is on. My system detects the wifi hardware, but doesn't appear to have any drivers for it; lwconfig simply reports back with 'no wireless extensions.'
Here's the output of inxi -F:
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System:
Host: tessa-elife Kernel: 5.4.0-74-generic x86_64 bits: 64
Desktop: Cinnamon 5.0.4 Distro: Linux Mint 20.2 Uma
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: Apple product: MacBookPro16,1 v: 1.0
serial: <superuser/root required>
Mobo: Apple model: Mac-E1008331FDC96864 v: MacBookPro16,1
serial: <superuser/root required> UEFI: Apple
v: 1554.100.64.0.0 (iBridge: 18.16.14556.0.0,0) date: 03/10/2021
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 98.6 Wh condition: 98.6/100.2 Wh (98%)
CPU:
Topology: 6-Core model: Intel Core i7-9750H bits: 64 type: MT MCP
L2 cache: 12.0 MiB
Speed: 800 MHz min/max: 800/4500 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 800 2: 800
3: 800 4: 800 5: 800 6: 800 7: 801 8: 800 9: 800 10: 800 11: 800 12: 800
Graphics:
Device-1: AMD Navi 14 [Radeon RX 5500/5500M / Pro 5500M] driver: amdgpu
v: kernel
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.9 driver: amdgpu,ati
unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,radeon,vesa resolution: 3072x1920~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: AMD NAVI14 (DRM 3.35.0 5.4.0-74-generic LLVM 11.0.0)
v: 4.6 Mesa 20.2.6
Audio:
Device-1: AMD Navi 10 HDMI Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
Device-2: Apple Audio driver: N/A
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.4.0-74-generic
Network:
Device-1: Broadcom and subsidiaries BCM4364 802.11ac Wireless Network
Adapter
driver: N/A
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 465.92 GiB used: 8.34 GiB (1.8%)
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Apple model: SSD AP0512N size: 465.92 GiB
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 457.11 GiB used: 8.34 GiB (1.8%) fs: ext4
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 45.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 0 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: amdgpu fan: 0
Info:
Processes: 274 Uptime: 44m Memory: 15.53 GiB used: 919.0 MiB (5.8%)
Shell: bash inxi: 3.0.38
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05:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries BCM4364 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter [14e4:4464] (rev 04)
Subsystem: Apple Inc. BCM4364 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter [106b:07bf]
06:00.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation JHL7540 Thunderbolt 3 Bridge [Titan Ridge 4C 2018] [8086:15ea] (rev 06)
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
07:00.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation JHL7540 Thunderbolt 3 Bridge [Titan Ridge 4C 2018] [8086:15ea] (rev 06)
Thanks!