I tried installing all those things and the b43-fwcutter I tried to install the modules
modprobe wl modprobe applespi modprobe appletouch None of them are working, some extra lines appear in the dmesg output after modprobe [ 9.515203] r8152 2-2.4:1.0 enx00e04c680b71: carrier on [ 9.564672] rfkill: input handler disabled [ 58.249582] rfkill: input handler enabled [ 59.806574] rfkill: input handler disabled [ 62.072574] applesmc: probe of applesmc.768 failed with error -5 [ 67.168685] show_signal_msg: 6 callbacks suppressed [ 67.168686] packagekitd[816]: segfault at 8 ip 0000556fe0c51631 sp 00007ffed178ffa0 error 4 in packagekitd[556fe0c4f000+24000] [ 67.168717] Code: 00 eb 81 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 8b 44 24 10 4c 89 e1 48 8d 15 25 1d 02 00 be 10 00 00 00 48 8d 3d e6 1c 02 00 41 bc ff ff ff ff <4c> 8b 40 08 31 c0 e8 d4 f0 ff ff e9 4a ff ff ff 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 [ 118.428252] applesmc: driver init failed (ret=-5)! [ 123.864611] usbcore: registered new interface driver appletouch On Sat, Dec 19, 2020 at 1:01 AM Karthik <karthikgatiga...@gmail.com> wrote: > first you're using a mac with t2chip(as i can see it in lspci). > As far as I know if T2 is not doing something crazy in the background the > following standard steps should work. > > for the wireless card(broadcom): > install broadcom-sta-dkms , firmware-brcm80211 , linux-firmware , > linux-firmware-free,,non-free packages > i don't if your card source is available yet in these packages but if > available they should work > > for the builtin keyboard,touchpad > As i can see these are not connected to system through usb or i2c and not > reported in ACPI tables in standard way(Apple way of doing things > nonstandard) as a result they are not detected(assuming i read those files > correctly). > So you have to load the " applespi " module manually if it works after > loading, then add etc/modprobe/... files. > for the audio > The audio modules are loaded correctly and should work fine. > if they are not then i don't know why. > > On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 10:36 PM himani agarwal <himan...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi Karthik, >> >> Please find the attached files. >> >> On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 11:01 AM Karthik <karthikgatiga...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> Attach the output of lspci ,lsusb, dmesg >>> So that we can help you further >>> >>> On Fri, Dec 18, 2020, 2:38 PM himani agarwal <himan...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> I downloaded the bullseye alpha 3 installer, >>>> firmware-bullseye-DI-alpha3-amd64-DVD-1.iso >>>> MD5: a1e967406869b1b0b64a1b808d39dd1a >>>> >>>> My computer is a Macbook Air 2020 >>>> >>>> I shrank the Apple partition, disabled secure boot and I was able to >>>> boot with the Debian installer. >>>> >>>> The keyboard, mouse, wifi and sound don't work in the installer or in >>>> the installed system. I had to use a USB keyboard and mouse connected >>>> with a USB-C dock. >>>> >>>> During install, the grub install failed. I booted with the >>>> altlinux.org >>>> resuce image, entered the Debian partition with chroot and used apt to >>>> install the Debian refind boot manager package. refind is working but I >>>> have to press Option every time I turn on the machine, otherwise it >>>> always goes to Mac. >>>> >>>> Can anybody tell me how to make the builtin keyboard, trackpad, wifi and >>>> sound work again? >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Regards >>>> Himani Agarwal[image: >>>> https://s3.amazonaws.com/htmlsig-assets/spacer.gif] >>>> >>> >> >> -- >> Regards >> Himani Agarwal[image: https://s3.amazonaws.com/htmlsig-assets/spacer.gif] >> > -- Regards Himani Agarwal[image: https://s3.amazonaws.com/htmlsig-assets/spacer.gif]
