Installing Qubes on MacBook Air

[peten...@gmail.com]

I posted this on GitHub earlier and was advised to post here.

Basically I am attempting to install Qubes on a MacBook Air and I have had little success following the instructions for putting the Broadcom wireless device into PCI passtrough so I'm going to try the other option of removing it from the Mac altogether to get the install to work.

My question is once installed I'm assuming I need to put the Broadcom device back into the machine? or will that take result in the machine freezing on boot again? This may be a very stupid question! I am new to all this so be kind please.

Alternatively if someone is able to step me through how to put the Broadcom devise into PCI passthrough that'd be great. I've got as far as entering # qvm-pci -a sys-net 02:00.0 # this assigns the device to sys-net VM but I get an error message stating # import error no module names qubes.qubes

Any help will be greatly appreciated!

[Max]

Which MacBook are you using? Have you checked here first? https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/macbook-troubleshooting/

[peten...@gmail.com]

Hi, yes those were the guidelines I was following until I experienced the #import error no module names qubes.qubes

I am attempting the installation on a MacBook Air from around 2013

[pixel fairy]

On Monday, February 27, 2017 at 12:00:18 AM UTC-8, peten...@gmail.com wrote:
> I posted this on GitHub earlier and was advised to post here.
>
> Basically I am attempting to install Qubes on a MacBook Air and I have had little success following the instructions for putting the Broadcom wireless device into PCI passtrough so I'm going to try the other option of removing it from the Mac altogether to get the install to work.

just curious, have you tried an external usb wifi as a workaround or temporary solution?