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Post subject: Problems with internet on MacBook
 Posted: May 12, 2008 - 11:28 PM
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I'm helping a friend out with sidux, and we're having problems getting the wireless internet to work for him. I've tried Ceni, etc. and nothing works. Does anyone have any suggestions?
EDIT: By the way, the card is AirPort Extreme. |
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Post subject: Re: Problems with internet on MacBook
Posted: May 13, 2008 - 02:31 PM
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thaycs wrote:
EDIT: By the way, the card is AirPort Extreme.
This is Apple's own description of the wlan card. It doesn't help much, because behind 'Airport Extreme' are different cards.
In my new MacBook Pro was an Broadcom BCM4328, which runs only - and not very good - with ndiswrapper and the driver found on the MacOS-DVD (or a driver from Dell's homepage). But my MBP is history now  |
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Post subject: RE: Re: Problems with internet on MacBook
Posted: May 25, 2008 - 08:49 PM
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Hi oliver,
can you give me some help with broadcom bcm43xx on my macbook? which driver on mac dvd? i found only .exe files....
thanks,
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Post subject: RE: Re: Problems with internet on MacBook
Posted: May 29, 2008 - 10:40 AM
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hi all,
i need help with my new macbook (2008) and broadcom wlan. First i installed firmware from release notes/wiki
http://sidux.com/index.php?module=pnWik ... rkBroadcom
then i followed up the instructions on manual:
http://manual.sidux.com/de/internet-con ... pper-basic
I found a driver wich is functioning with two other distros with the same install procedure.
installed it with ndiswrapper -i
lspci:
02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4328 802.11a/b/g/n [14e4:4328] (rev 03)
root@siduxbox:/home/mig# ndiswrapper -l
bcmwl5 : driver installed
device (14E4:4328) present (alternate driver: ssb)
Ceni doesn't give me any Wlan adapter and iwconfig does not too:
root@siduxbox:/home/mig# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
Who can help me?
Thanks in advance,
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Post subject: RE: Re: Problems with internet on MacBook
Posted: May 29, 2008 - 01:17 PM
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mig, do I read it correctly that you mix ndiswrapper and the firmwarecutter? It is either or, I suppose. No need for Windows drivers here with a broadcom chip on a HP laptop. Maybe I load a module, I can check that later.
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Post subject: RE: Re: Problems with internet on MacBook
Posted: May 29, 2008 - 01:40 PM
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hi hubi, thanks for reply.
i tried first install firmware and second with ndiswrapper, no wireless module...
Thanks,
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Last edited by mig on May 29, 2008 - 02:16 PM; edited 1 time in total
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Post subject: RE: Re: Problems with internet on MacBook
Posted: May 29, 2008 - 01:56 PM
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To the best of my knowledge, 14e4:4328 (~= draft-n devices) are not yet supported by b43, so you'll have to use ndiswrapper for the time being.
b43 upstream is working on reverse engineering and porting the required changes for draft-n devices, but it needs quite some changes (and a new firmware), before it might work; take care to blacklist ssb, b43, b43legacy and b44. |
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Post subject: RE: Re: Problems with internet on MacBook
Posted: May 29, 2008 - 01:59 PM
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thanks slh, thats true.
but it's working with ubuntu and ndiswrapper. I can not believe that sidux (the only distro to be definitely installed on my macbook..... ) does not support this wlan adapter.
what else could i try?
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Last edited by mig on May 29, 2008 - 02:18 PM; edited 1 time in total
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Post subject: RE: Re: Problems with internet on MacBook
Posted: May 29, 2008 - 02:11 PM
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"ndiswrapper -i" only installs the driver but does not load the module. You either add it to /etc/modules or you install with "ndiswrapper -im" then the module is automatically loaded everytime you boot.
To load the module into a running system the root command is "modprobe ndiswrapper".
Please let's keep the language in English. thaycs might still be interested in his own thread.
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Post subject: RE: Re: Problems with internet on MacBook
Posted: May 29, 2008 - 02:16 PM
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| ...and you really need to blacklist/ unload the "offending" native drivers. |
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Post subject: Re: RE: Re: Problems with internet on MacBook
Posted: May 29, 2008 - 02:22 PM
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slh wrote:
...and you really need to blacklist/ unload the "offending" native drivers.
hmm... thanks slh, this could it be.... will give it a try soon.
@hubi: yes, i did the module load like described in the manual
thanks for your help guys, will give feedback soon.
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Post subject: RE: Re: RE: Re: Problems with internet on MacBook
Posted: May 29, 2008 - 05:33 PM
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Ok, blacklist was the solution. Thanks again slh!
Now the problem is the 32bit driver in my sidux 64. I think i'll wait for 2008-02 and install 32bit.
Thanks to all,
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