No ethernet or wifi

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Hi i am new to this recently instaalled linux mint on samsung laptop went perfectly ,
so i got brave and installed on a 2011 macbook everything seemed ok till i discovered no ethernet or wifi ran commands and none present where did i go wrong.
Ronnie B

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Welcome, @Ronald_Bell to the community! :slightly_smiling_face:

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Hi Ronald,

If you boot your MacBook from a Live ISO,

  • does it recognize your WiFi?
nmcli radio all

nmcli device status

nmcli device show {interface}
  • do you have access to the internet?
sudo curl ipinfo.io

If those are all reporting correctly, the issue is an unintentional or misunderstood configuration change to the installed OS image.

After rebooting, can you share your configuration reported by this:

sudo inxi -SMCNxxx
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inxi -Nxxx might be simpler.

I don’t have experience with macbook but at least wired rj45 should work.

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i ve uninstalled till i get some more info about what i m doini ran commands suggested it was showing no adapters present either wifi or ethernet
which according to spec should both be broadcom appon reinstalling macos
both worked

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Did you try the commands from Live ISO or from running Linux instance? If not Live ISO, I would be very interested in having you try that to know what the Live session reports.

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i ran all the commands from running linox instance,
the the installation was latest linux mint via ubootnet on usb

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since you installed macOS and both wired and wireless worked, please tell us how you made a bootable usb stick. Basically, d/l the latest mint that you like (an .iso file), then use usb image writer to write the .iso to the usb stick. Then, you boot from that usb stick. Mint should load and show you a live session and there is an icon to install Mint on your pc.

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i downloaded the linux mint 22.3 then i used ubootnet to write the iso to a usb set it run on a macbook pro the install went well linux loaded to the macbook harddrive everything went well linux installed i checked i checked apps were working all appear great untill i went to do updates and had no internet from there i ran most of the commands i could find to see why all came back the same

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if install went well, I assume you did not select connect to internet or wireless during install. At the end it tells you to remove the usb stick and press enter, then the pc will reboot.

Does it reboot and bring you a gui screen?

At the bottom panel it should show whether wired connection works or if it found any wireless. The first steps (welcome screen) tells you to check connectivity.

There is also System Settings | Driver Manager which will look for wireless.

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