MacBook Air Intel 2020 no wifi

Issues & Assistance
1

Hello all,

I’m having problems installing CachyOS on my 2020 MacBook Air. I can’t get the wifi to work (and therefore cannot proceed with the installation). I followed the guide on https://wiki.cachyos.org/installation/installation_t2macbook/ to set up the wifi but then in the applet there are no networks available. I do not know what the problem is. I have a feeling it has to do with the iwd backend, although I followed the instructions to change that too (hopefully correctly).

Anybody has experienced the same issue or is able to help me?

2

Hello, welcome to the forum.

Is it possible to use your smartphone’s tethering function for the online installation?

If so, please do so. Then we’ll see what’s next.

3

Hello! Yes, in the end I did that and I worked! Once installed (Cosmic Desktop) I just copied the wifi firmware back from the EFI partition and now the WiFi works normally.

I’m having problems with the Bluetooth though, because it doesn’t seem to be able to find devices. Any suggestions on this front?