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by blumentopf 3366 days ago
There's a bug in Apple's EFI driver for BCM4331 cards present on a lot of older Macs which keeps the card enabled even after handing over control to the OS. A patch went into Linux 4.7 to reset the card in an early quirk, but I suspect other OSes can be taken over via WiFi on the affected machines:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...

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This one is soft-MAC I think.