MacBook Pro Wi-Fi on Fedora, revisited: solving 2020’s mystery and 2026’s new obstacles
Five years after my 2020 Wi-Fi article ended on an unsolved “deal-breaking issue”, the same 2011 MacBook Pro running Fedora 44 finally gave up all its secrets: kmod vs akmod, the WPA3 handshake loop, GUI edits that silently undo nmcli fixes, a 54 to 540 Mbit/s speed arc — and a closing lesson about trusting journalctl over your own memory.