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- Motherboard
- Dell XPS 15 9520
- CPU
- i9-12900HK
- Graphics
- RX 6650XT
- Mac
I was looking to install Mac OSX Sierra on my Dell XPS 13 9370 but looking through this form I come to find that it might not be possible since the killer wireless card is soldered onto the board. I was wondering why this would prevent me from installing/using sierra on my machine. Is it just that drivers for the killer wireless chip set don't exist for OSX? I have Ubuntu Artful Ardvark installed on it and the generic drivers seem to work just fine. Why is it that you couldnt use those drivers for OSX?
Killer Wireless drivers are available in Linux, but not (completely) in source code form. It's up to KW to git a fully open source repo, and a kind soul to write a kext wrapper for them. Neither are easy, unfortunately. Then there's the issue of KW performance, which I won't go through here...
You *can*, however, purchase a USB wifi card that will work for macOS (most likely USB-A, not USB-C); it will add to the battery life drain and you will have to carry it around. But the right USB card will work in Ardvark and macOS and let you do a lot of interesting things under Linux as well...