mbp-fedora VS wireless-carplay-dongle-reverse-engineering

There is an Fedora iso with the kernel already patched with drivers here. https://github.com/mikeeq/mbp-fedora If you go here https://wiki.t2linux.org you’ll find instructions for other distros as well. There’s an Ubuntu kernel (which works in PopOS), Endeavour, Manjaro, also apple keyboard, touchbar, WiFi, audio drivers for whichever distro but you have to do them individually and go through some steps to copy the drivers from your Mac to the EFI, then from there to your Linux install. They made scripts to make it less of a pain. By far the easiest for me was the pre made ISO of Fedora.

This worked on my 2020 Macbook Pro: https://github.com/mikeeq/mbp-fedora

I personally run https://github.com/mikeeq/mbp-fedora on my macbook pro 2019 I still dual boot because as stated in the notes you still need macos around to do certain updates and if the system fails you need it to recover the system. But it works surprisingly well, and Fedora is a solid distro.

You need kernel patches to run linux well on those macs. You’ll probably need to use https://github.com/mikeeq/mbp-fedora/releases/tag/v5.13.12-f34-mbp15

I used this MacBook-ready Fedora version.

Some useful info here: https://github.com/45clouds/WirelessCarPlay https://github.com/ludwig-v/wireless-carplay-dongle-reverse-engineering

So, in an effort to save it: When plugged to the wall, red light turns on and that's it. I was unable to flash it with any of the files found at https://github.com/ludwig-v/wireless-carplay-dongle-reverse-engineering ... might be there's no appropriate fw for CP2A model.

Depending on your model, you can try installing a different firmware using a USB stick. This page has firmware for the Carlinkit 3.0 dongles - which also works with noname CPC200-U2W-Plus dongles like mine. I've flashed mine a few times, and I haven't managed to kill it yet :-) (Make sure you follow the instructions in the bottom of the page)

Download a firmware from here: https://github.com/ludwig-v/wireless-carplay-dongle-reverse-engineering/tree/master/Firmware (Read the instructions at the bottom of the page, as they might change since this post was written)