We have a Macbook Air mid 2013 and no matter what distro I tried, making wi-fi work was pain due to Broadcom drivers and not having ethernet port. Basically had to install the drivers via phone tethering.
However, probably because of the drivers, there are certain problems like disconnecting out of blue or really slow connection or cannot reconnect unless reboot the PC.
So I want to ask, if you have this Macbook and have Linux installed, which distro you’re using it with? How is it?
Recently I installed Bazzite on a home computer and printers, Xbox controller, iPhone connection, everything the owners need worked out of the box. I’m wondering, would it also work fine with this Macbook too?
I had very similar problems with Realtek wifi on an HP laptop.
A possible fix:
Run “iwconfig” and check your adapter power management setting. If it’s on turn it off: “iwconfig [interface] power off”.
This solved most the wifi problems on my system.
on fedora (ain’t got iwconfig no more) it’s
sudo iw wlp3s0 set power_save offor whatever your device is.