I test a MacBook Air 1,1 with Debian Live DVD $ uname -a Linux debian 4.9.0-6-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.82-1+deb9u3 (2018-03-02) x86_64 GNU/Linux
and all seems to be fine and dandy, except for the wireless network card. This is what dmidecode and hwinfo tell me about it: Model: "Apple AirPort Extreme" Vendor: pci 0x14e4 "Broadcom" Device: pci 0x4328 "BCM4321 802.11a/b/g/n" 26: PCI 200.0: 0280 Network controller [Created at pci.378] Unique ID: B35A.CbfFWX_P8z0 Parent ID: QSNP.42mDnfFER+E SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.4/0000:02:00.0 SysFS BusID: 0000:02:00.0 Hardware Class: network Model: "Apple AirPort Extreme" Vendor: pci 0x14e4 "Broadcom" Device: pci 0x4328 "BCM4321 802.11a/b/g/n" SubVendor: pci 0x106b "Apple Inc." SubDevice: pci 0x008b "AirPort Extreme" Revision: 0x05 Driver: "b43-pci-bridge" Driver Modules: "ssb" Memory Range: 0x90300000-0x90303fff (rw,non-prefetchable) IRQ: 16 (200000 events) Module Alias: "pci:v000014E4d00004328sv0000106Bsd0000008Bbc02sc80i00" Driver Info #0: Driver Status: ssb is active Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe ssb" Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown Attached to: #19 (PCI bridge) ~ C