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3 months agoAs the unfortunate owner of a same-gen MBP with the same wireless card, you’re looking at using the proprietary driver (I at least never had any luck with the open-source ones). Luckily, Debian do support those, and even have wiki page for them: https://wiki.debian.org/wl
Does require some extra configuration though. If you happen to have a Android phone, you should be able to use that for USB-tethering to have internet access on the device you’re installing on, will make the process a lot easier (you don’t even need a SIM in it, you can tether your wifi, that’s what I ended up doing 😅).
Quick tip for the author and those reading, instead of doing as in the article noted e.g.
sudo nano
or the like, you can usesudoedit
(orsudo -e
). The advantage of this is that it will use whatever you have configured as an editor (through$SUDO_EDITOR
,$VISUAL
or$EDITOR
), and will use your configuration files while editing instead of root’s, meaning if you have a sick custom neovim or emacs setup you don’t have to keep those settings files in sync with the root account. ;)