Getting WLAN to work on the archlinux install medium on a MacBook Pro 10x
It's 2026 and you want to install archlinux on your 10 years old MacBook Pro.
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This is what worked for me:
Reading material
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=274369https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Broadcom_wireless#Driver_selectionCommands to run on your MacBook with the install iso running:
- if you have a german keyboard layout do `loadkeys de-latin1` ("-" = "ß")
- run `rm /etc/modprobe.d/broadcom-wl.conf`
- run `lspci -vnn -d 14e4:`
- run `rmmod ...` replace "..." with the kernel modules listed for your Network Controller. In my case it was "bcma, wl". The kernel module "bcma" depends on "b43", so I had to `rmmod b43` as well.
- run `modprobe wl`
- run `iwctl station list`. be happy that it now lists "wlan0" as available station
- potentially wait a bit to get an IP address assigned. Took a couple minutes for me (around 2min)
Original document at gemini://blog.dweipert.de/en/2026/getting-wlan-to-work-on-the-archlinux-install-medium-on-a-macbook-pro-10x.gmi