wifi ready after installed

[MR Keys]

Hi all

So I enjoy trying out different distros now and then when they get updated. However, Mint Mate proved quite a challenge to get wifi working on it after installed to the hard drive. Once done, no problems at all.

My question is though, that if I were to install a different distro and come back to Mint Mate, would I have to do all that dancing with the wifi stuff again?

My next post, will paste my system information. Other than that, Mint Mate had no trouble picking up wifi on my other Pc's.

[MR Keys]

MacBookPro:~$ inxi -Fxxxrz
System: Kernel: 5.4.0-72-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 9.3.0 Desktop: MATE 1.24.0 info: mate-panel
wm: marco 1.24.0 dm: LightDM 1.30.0 Distro: Linux Mint 20.1 Ulyssa base: Ubuntu 20.04 focal
Machine: Type: Laptop System: Apple product: MacBookPro8,1 v: 1.0 serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 10 v: Mac-94245B3640C91C81
serial: <filter>
Mobo: Apple model: Mac-94245B3640C91C81 v: MacBookPro8,1 serial: <filter> UEFI: Apple v: 87.0.0.0.0
date: 06/13/2019
Battery: ID-1: BAT0 charge: 33.0 Wh condition: 36.5/62.9 Wh (58%) volts: 11.4/10.9 model: SMP bq20z451 type: Li-ion
serial: N/A status: Discharging cycles: 1151
CPU: Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core i5-2435M bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Sandy Bridge rev: 7 L2 cache: 3072 KiB
flags: avx lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 19156
Speed: 798 MHz min/max: 800/3000 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 798 2: 798 3: 798 4: 798
Graphics: Device-1: Intel 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics vendor: Apple driver: i915 v: kernel
bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:0126
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.9 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa compositor: marco v: 1.24.0
resolution: 1280x800~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics 3000 (SNB GT2) v: 3.3 Mesa 20.2.6 compat-v: 3.0 direct render: Yes
Audio: Device-1: Intel 6 Series/C200 Series Family High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0
chip ID: 8086:1c20
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.4.0-72-generic
Network: Device-1: Broadcom and subsidiaries NetXtreme BCM57765 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe driver: tg3 v: 3.137 port: efa0
bus ID: 02:00.0 chip ID: 14e4:16b4
IF: enp2s0f0 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Broadcom and subsidiaries BCM4331 802.11a/b/g/n vendor: Apple AirPort Extreme driver: wl v: kernel
port: efa0 bus ID: 03:00.0 chip ID: 14e4:4331
IF: wlp3s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Drives: Local Storage: total: 465.76 GiB used: 39.02 GiB (8.4%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Toshiba model: MK5065GSXF size: 465.76 GiB speed: 3.0 Gb/s rotation: 5400 rpm
serial: <filter> rev: 6B scheme: GPT
Partition: ID-1: / size: 456.96 GiB used: 39.02 GiB (8.5%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 57.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Repos: No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/1password.list
1: deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/1password.gpg] https://downloads.1password.com/linux/debian edge main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release.list
1: deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg arch=amd64] https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/ stable main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
1: deb http://packages.linuxmint.com ulyssa main upstream import backport
2: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal main restricted universe multiverse
3: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates main restricted universe multiverse
4: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports main restricted universe multiverse
5: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ focal-security main restricted universe multiverse
6: deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ focal partner
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-source-repositories.list
1: deb-src http://packages.linuxmint.com ulyssa main upstream import backport
2: deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal main restricted universe multiverse
3: deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates main restricted universe multiverse
4: deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports main restricted universe multiverse
5: deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ focal-security main restricted universe multiverse
6: deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ focal partner
Info: Processes: 203 Uptime: 2h 01m Memory: 3.76 GiB used: 1.62 GiB (43.1%) Init: systemd v: 245 runlevel: 5 Compilers:
gcc: 9.3.0 alt: 9 Shell: bash v: 5.0.17 running in: mate-terminal inxi: 3.0.38

[hglee]

My question is though, that if I were to install a different distro and come back to Mint Mate, would I have to do all that dancing with the wifi stuff again?

If you remove Mint, rather than multi-boot with another Linux on a separate partition, then yes you'll return to the same configuration procedures.

But as you say, it's then a familiar dance -- not an uncertain battle.