Hello. I have a macbookpro2012 that I am running ZorinOS 17.3Pro as my daily driver. I re-installed Zorin on laptop after not being able to resolve getting access to my server via DNS. With the re-installation, that got fixed, but now my wifi-adpater is missing. I can only get internet if I am hardwired. I tried re-installing it again but to no avail.
Any guidance on this is appreciated.
Did you try with Zorin 18 because it seem many users have no problems with your computer and ubuntu 24.04 who Zorin 18 is a fork ?
or maybe try this
sudo apt update && sudo apt install broadcom-sta-dkms=6.30.223.271-23ubuntu1.2
This is what I got by running that command.
~$ sudo apt install broadcom-sta-dkms=6.30.223.271-23ubuntu1.2
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Package broadcom-sta-dkms is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Version '6.30.223.271-23ubuntu1.2' for 'broadcom-sta-dkms' was not found
Do you know what might have happened to change this from working to not working when I have been using the same computer and the same ZorinOS installation file?
honestly no, try this
# install packages
sudo apt update
sudo apt-get install dkms broadcom-sta-dkms
# insert driver into kernel and update initial ramdisk
sudo modprobe -rf wl
sudo modprobe -vv wl
sudo update-initramfs -c -k all
# reboot to activate driver
sudo shutdown -r now
That did it! Responding via wifi right now. Thanks!!
my pleasure 