Moss_the_TeXie

@muhyb
As I wrote: I had to install some arcane closed source driver … I’ll look if I find still substantial information on that.

@muhyb
Nope. Maybe a problem caused by silently dying hardware? Those tiny Bluetooth/WLAN combi cards do that sometimes …
For replacements, take a look at eBay, for example. IFixit has decend instructions (it’s simple).

@muhyb
Same chip/card/module:
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03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries BCM4360 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter (rev 03)
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… and it’s a Debian bookworm/Cinnamon.

@muhyb
I have a MacBook Pro 13" late-2013 running Cinnamon (Mint based I think) and I had to install some arcane binary driver package to enable WLAN. Can’t remember now which chipset and which driver but I’ll recherche and get back to you. Please ping me if there’s no answer this week.

Mint Cinnamon still isn’t the OS of choice as it confuses sleep levels on this machine.

@Eldritch
I don‘t think the order of the bits and bytes in some file format depends on the byte order inside cpu registers.

@rarsamx @Atherel
Nice typo. The term “distro hoping” perfectly describes my state of mind when I try out another Linux distribution to see if this desktop Linux is finally a thing.