Macbook air WiFi driver

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Hey, I installed Fedora Silverblue 37 on an old Macbook and the WiFi is not working.
Currently I’m able to connect through a dongle but I would like to get the wifi working without the dongle to save the usb port.
Could someone point me to a guide on how to install the correct drivers?
I wasn’t able to find a guide for my specific setup and I’m afraid I can mess something up if I install the wrong thing

Here is the device info:
Hardware Model: Apple Inc. MacBookAir7,2
Memory: 4GB
Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-5250U × 4
Graphics: Mesa Intel® HD Graphics 6000 (BDW GT3)
OS: Fedora Linux 37.1.7 (Silverblue) 64-bit
Gnome version: 43.0
Windowing System: Wayland

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We need to know specific info about the adapter before we might answer.
Please post the output of inxi -Fzxx and lspci -nn so we might see what hardware is installed.

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System:
  Kernel: 6.0.14-300.fc37.x86_64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
    v: 2.38-25.fc37 Desktop: GNOME v: 43.2 tk: GTK v: 3.24.35 wm: gnome-shell
    dm: GDM Distro: Fedora release 37 (Thirty Seven)
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Apple product: MacBookAir7,2 v: 1.0
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 48.4 Wh (100.0%) condition: 48.4/54.3 Wh (89.1%)
    volts: 8.5 min: 7.6 model: SMP bq20z451 serial: N/A status: full
CPU:
  Info: dual core model: Intel Core i5-5250U bits: 64 type: MT MCP
    arch: Broadwell rev: 4 cache: L1: 128 KiB L2: 512 KiB L3: 3 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 2206 high: 2665 min/max: 500/2700 cores: 1: 1425 2: 2654
    3: 2081 4: 2665 bogomips: 12800
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 6000 vendor: Apple driver: i915 v: kernel
    arch: Gen-8 ports: active: eDP-1 empty: DP-1, DP-2, HDMI-A-1, HDMI-A-2
    bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:1626
  Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.20.14 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.6
    compositor: gnome-shell driver: gpu: i915 display-ID: 0
  Monitor-1: eDP-1 model: Apple Color LCD res: 1440x900 dpi: 128
    diag: 337mm (13.3")
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 Mesa 22.3.1 renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 6000 (BDW
    GT3) direct render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Broadwell-U Audio vendor: Apple driver: snd_hda_intel
    v: kernel bus-ID: 00:03.0 chip-ID: 8086:160c
  Device-2: Intel Wildcat Point-LP High Definition Audio
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:9ca0
  Device-3: Broadcom 720p FaceTime HD Camera driver: N/A pcie: speed: 5 GT/s
    lanes: 1 bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 14e4:1570
  Sound API: ALSA v: k6.0.14-300.fc37.x86_64 running: yes
  Sound Server-1: PulseAudio v: 16.1 running: no
  Sound Server-2: PipeWire v: 0.3.63 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Broadcom BCM4360 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter vendor: Apple
    driver: bcma-pci-bridge v: N/A pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1
    bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 14e4:43a0
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8188EUS 802.11n Wireless Network Adapter type: USB
    driver: r8188eu bus-ID: 1-1:2 chip-ID: 0bda:8179
  IF: wlp0s20u1 state: up mac: <filter>
  IF-ID-1: wg-mullvad state: unknown speed: N/A duplex: N/A mac: N/A
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Apple Bluetooth USB Host Controller type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
    bus-ID: 1-3.3:7 chip-ID: 05ac:828f
  Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: down bt-service: enabled,running
    rfk-block: hardware: no software: yes address: see --recommends
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 113 GiB used: 15.65 GiB (13.8%)
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Apple model: SSD SM0128G size: 113 GiB
    speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter>
Partition:
  ID-1: /boot size: 973.4 MiB used: 88 MiB (9.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 600 MiB used: 23.9 MiB (4.0%) fs: hfsplus
    dev: /dev/sda1
  ID-3: /var size: 111.4 GiB used: 15.54 GiB (13.9%) fs: btrfs
    dev: /dev/dm-0 mapped: luks-e620bc1b-ef24-4c2a-945c-0057bb4cd801
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 3.73 GiB used: 3 MiB (0.1%) priority: 100
    dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 63.0 C pch: 60.5 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
  Processes: 286 Uptime: 3m Memory: 3.73 GiB used: 2.17 GiB (58.3%)
  Init: systemd v: 251 target: graphical (5) default: graphical Compilers:
  gcc: 12.2.1 Packages: pm: rpm pkgs: N/A note: see --rpm pm: flatpak pkgs: 34
  Shell: Bash v: 5.2.9 running-in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.3.23

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00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Broadwell-U Host Bridge -OPI [8086:1604] (rev 09)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation HD Graphics 6000 [8086:1626] (rev 09)
00:03.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation Broadwell-U Audio Controller [8086:160c] (rev 09)
00:14.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP USB xHCI Controller [8086:9cb1] (rev 03)
00:15.0 DMA controller [0801]: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP Serial IO DMA Controller [8086:9ce0] (rev 03)
00:15.4 Serial bus controller [0c80]: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP Serial IO GSPI Controller #1 [8086:9ce6] (rev 03)
00:16.0 Communication controller [0780]: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP MEI Controller #1 [8086:9cba] (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP High Definition Audio Controller [8086:9ca0] (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP PCI Express Root Port #1 [8086:9c90] (rev e3)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP PCI Express Root Port #2 [8086:9c92] (rev e3)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP PCI Express Root Port #3 [8086:9c94] (rev e3)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP PCI Express Root Port #5 [8086:9c98] (rev e3)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP PCI Express Root Port #6 [8086:9c9a] (rev e3)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP LPC Controller [8086:9cc3] (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP SMBus Controller [8086:9ca2] (rev 03)
00:1f.6 Signal processing controller [1180]: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP Thermal Management Controller [8086:9ca4] (rev 03)
02:00.0 Multimedia controller [0480]: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries 720p FaceTime HD Camera [14e4:1570]
03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries BCM4360 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter [14e4:43a0] (rev 03)
04:00.0 SATA controller [0106]: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd Device [144d:a801] (rev 01)
05:00.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation DSL5320 Thunderbolt 2 Bridge [Falcon Ridge 2C 2013] [8086:156b]
06:00.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation DSL5320 Thunderbolt 2 Bridge [Falcon Ridge 2C 2013] [8086:156b]
06:03.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation DSL5320 Thunderbolt 2 Bridge [Falcon Ridge 2C 2013] [8086:156b]
06:04.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation DSL5320 Thunderbolt 2 Bridge [Falcon Ridge 2C 2013] [8086:156b]
06:05.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation DSL5320 Thunderbolt 2 Bridge [Falcon Ridge 2C 2013] [8086:156b]
06:06.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation DSL5320 Thunderbolt 2 Bridge [Falcon Ridge 2C 2013] [8086:156b]
07:00.0 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation DSL5320 Thunderbolt 2 NHI [Falcon Ridge 2C 2013] [8086:156a]
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Try the broadcom-wl driver package from RPM Fusion Nonfree. On my iMac 14,2 system:

$ dnf info broadcom-wl
Installed Packages
Name         : broadcom-wl
Version      : 6.30.223.271
Release      : 21.fc37
Architecture : noarch
Size         : 38 k
Source       : broadcom-wl-6.30.223.271-21.fc37.src.rpm
Repository   : @System
From repo    : rpmfusion-nonfree
Summary      : Common files for Broadcom 802.11 STA driver
URL          : https://www.broadcom.com/support/download-search?pg=Legacy+Products&pf=Legacy+Wireless&pn=&pa=&po=&dk=&pl=
License      : Redistributable, no modification permitted
Description  : This package contains the license, README.txt and configuration
             : files for the Broadcom 802.11 Linux STA Driver for WiFi, a Linux
             : device driver for use with Broadcom's BCM4311-, BCM4312-, BCM4313-,
             : BCM4321-, BCM4322-, BCM43142-, BCM43224-, BCM43225-, BCM43227-,
             : BCM43228-, BCM4331-, BCM4360 and -BCM4352- based hardware.