Broadcom b43 WiFi driver for Ubuntu on Macbook

 I like Linux, and this time I installed on old Macbook Pro 2010, however the wifi is not working after Ubuntu installation. Read more how to get working wifi on Ubuntu 20.10

First download these two files

http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/main/b/b43-fwcutter/b43-fwcutter_015-9_amd64.deb

http://www.lwfinger.com/b43-firmware/broadcom-wl-5.100.138.tar.bz2

and save to Desktop

Open Terminal in Ubuntu and write these commands below, after each line press enter in terminal. After first SUDO command write your login password and press enter!

cd Desktop

sudo dpkg -i b43-fwcutter_015-9_amd64.deb

tar xfvj broadcom-wl-5.100.138.tar.bz2

sudo b43-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware broadcom-wl-5.100.138/linux/wl_apsta.o

sudo modprobe b43

Then reboot

It should work, if not you have different wifi card or some thing else!

Install Google Chrome in Manjaro 20

 

By default Manjaro linux comes with Firefox web browser, well it’s nice to have, but some users likes to use Google Chrome. Read more how to install Google Chrome in Manjaro linux easy way.

 

The thing is, you can’t just install Google Chrome from pacman by default, and if you want to use Google Chrome web browser you have to enable AUR support to find Chrome in pacman.

Open Pacman go to Preferences/AUR/Enable AUR support press Check for updates Close

Now close the Pacman.

 

Open terminal, write these commands

sudo pacman -Sy

sudo pacman -S git

 

Next open Pacman, search for google-chrome, click Build, click Apply, wait. 

 

 

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