Ubuntu 18.04 and elementary OS presented a perfect looking desktop out of the box, but there were two small problems: the function key for adjusting my display backlight didn’t work, and sometimes the internal Broadcom WiFi adapter wasn’t recognized. I Recommend Ubuntu 19.10 Or Elementary OSĮlementary OS is elegant and has great multi-user support, including parental controls Jason Evangelho Just make sure that during the installation of your Linux distribution, you select “Install 3rd party drivers/software.” This will especially help with WiFi adapter operation and Nvidia GPUs. Overall hardware detection is great, though. Everything felt a little too small, but that’s an easy fix by diving into the system settings and setting up your preferring scaling percentage. For example, Manjaro KDE’s desktop didn’t scale too nicely on my Late 2013 MacBook Pro’s Retina display. My takeaway is that Ubuntu, Manjaro and elementary OS can all be installed easily (others should work this is my own personal experience), but there are some rough edges. If you’d like a general guide on burning a Linux ISO to a USB stick so that you can test it “live” without installing it to your hard drive, I’ve written one here (instructions for Mac users too): MORE FROM FORBES How To Try Linux Without Making Any Changes To Your PC By Jason Evangelho It ended up being a wonderful resource, specifically when it comes to getting your WiFi up and running on a similar MacBook.Ĭastro approaches this from a developer point of view, but the instructions are direct and quite easy to follow. I'm totally confused, in my mind, the firmware is already there on the product, if anything wrong, it should be problem of driver.First and foremost, let me point you to this guide by Vincent Castro. Why this error message tells me to download the correct firmware?Įven if the firmware doesn't match the driver, shouldn't it be to download the driver for the firmware? My understanding is that firmware is some software comes with the product in read-only memory(some where on the product has this firmware burned in) I google around about firmware and drivers. Please carefully read all instructions on this website. b43-phy0 ERROR: You must go to … cefirmware and download the correct firmware for this driver version. b43 ssb0:0: Direct firmware load for b43-open/ucode15.fw failed with error -2 b43 ssb0:0: Direct firmware load for b43/ucode15.fw failed with error -2 But I'm stuck at the beginning: b43 ssb0:0: Direct firmware load for b43/ucode15.fw failed with error -2 I'm tring to install arch linux on my mac mini from a usb stick.

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