Wouldn't a better naming convention be broadcom-wl6
Yes, it would be.
Sorry I didn't really give it any thought I was just trying to help as some people seemed to be having issues with the the dkms version.
Anyway the package is disowned and can be renamed by anyone prepared to maintain it, if not maybe it should be removed.
Richard
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Richard
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That was silly of me! you will need a moded install file etc not just the PKGBUILD.
I have uploaded a package to AUR with everything you need but I will disown straight away because I don't have time to maintain.
Haha don't worry about it, I'm just glad to hear it works (I've been thinking of picking up a new Air for myself). Do you have access to any 802.11ac routers? I'm curious if the BCM4360 wireless card can only function in N-mode or if the linux driver can fully utilise ac.
Unfortunately, I have problems getting my wifi (broadcom 14e4:43a0 / MacBook Air) to work with this package. After the installation, I was not able to see the interface with "ip link". "modprobe wl" yields "FATAL: Module wl not found". I also tried to enable the systemd service DKMS as was suggested in one of the comments of the AUR package page, but this did not help either.
Any suggestions would be highly appreciated. Thanks.
]]>Yes you have the right AUR package there. It is the one maitained by twelveeighty For more info about how it is ubuntu specific, see the "upstream url" link of the page you linked to. Or simply check out the sources for that dkms package. In particular, you could check out the inlcuded patches to see what exactly they are having to change in order to get it working.
]]>@WonderWoofy: That would be broadcom-wl-dkms. Have you tried this on a 2013 MBA? I'd still like some feedback first to know this.
Also, I'm curious, how is the v6 driver Ubuntu-specific, does it rely on other ubuntu-specific kernel patches?
]]>So with Arch you will need the broadcom-wl-dkms package from the AUR (and dkms obviously). It is also possible to use this source and patchset to create your own non-dkms package as well. I did it and it was pretty straight forward. Unfortunately, I accidentally deleted the srcpackage I think. I realized that for my bcm43228, the v5 module is actually what I should be using anyway.
]]>I have this chipset:
# lspci -vvv
03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4360 802.11ac Wireless Netwo
rk Adapter (rev 03)
Subsystem: Apple Inc. Device 0117
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Step
ping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort+ <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 256 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10
Region 0: Memory at b0600000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32K]
Region 2: Memory at b0400000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2M]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: wl
aka "14e4:43a0" chip set. I have Ubuntu 13.04 with kernel 3.8.0-19-generic.
you need the driver "wl" using the latest driver version 6.30
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bc … ld/4761504
I installed the DEB package and working fine:
[ 3381.640675] wl: module license 'MIXED/Proprietary' taints kernel.
[ 3381.671023] femctrl from nvram not enabled. returning from here
[ 3381.678253] INFO @wl_cfg80211_attach : Registered CFG80211 phy
[ 3381.688915] lib80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'TKIP'
[ 3381.724981] eth0: Broadcom BCM43a0 802.11 Hybrid Wireless Controller 6.30.223.30 (r390414)
For others distros I could try to compile the tar.gz source.
Regards.
]]>Sorry to bring this up about a month later, but I'm looking into buying a MBA2013, and wanted to know if the BCM4360 worked fine after all. It seems that only the propietary driver is supported; but does it work fine? Do you get disconnects or anything alike?
I get a lot of disconnects. Once it disconnects, there's a 50/50 chance I can get it up again if I do an ip link down - if not, the only solution seems to be a reboot. Really annoying. It seems to happen more often with heavier usage: It can stand idle for the night without dropping, but if I'm streaming music it can drop after 30-45 minutes.
Here's what happens when it fails:
Jul 30 14:36:33 temperance network[3086]: Starting network profile 'eth0-eduroam'...
Jul 30 14:36:34 temperance dhcpcd[219]: eth0: carrier acquired
Jul 30 14:36:34 temperance dhcpcd[219]: eth0: carrier lost
Jul 30 14:36:34 temperance dhcpcd[219]: eth0: waiting for carrier
Jul 30 14:36:49 temperance network[3086]: WPA association/authentication failed for interface 'eth0'
Jul 30 14:36:49 temperance dhcpcd[219]: eth0: carrier acquired
Jul 30 14:36:50 temperance dhcpcd[219]: eth0: carrier lost
Jul 30 14:36:50 temperance dhcpcd[219]: eth0: waiting for carrier
Jul 30 14:36:50 temperance network[3086]: Failed to bring the network up for profile 'eth0-eduroam'
Jul 30 14:36:50 temperance systemd[1]: netctl@eth0\x2deduroam.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Jul 30 14:36:50 temperance systemd[1]: Failed to start Networking for netctl profile eth0-eduroam.
Happy mba owners. Can you please comment on arch installation procedure?
Was reefit used? What kind of image was used? kernel version? etc?
Recent phoronix article reveals that linux on 11" mba is quite unstable, altho they did used ubuntu 13.10 image.
Also, i would very appreciate if someone would post boot log.
I boot arch from efi shell. Didn't try other solutions like refit, refind, gummiboot, ... because I already boot my MBP form efi shell and this method works on both machines.
In order to install arch, I downloaded the image from archlinux.org. Unfortunately I wiped the SD card by now, but I think the version didn't update in the meantime: "Current Release: 2013.06.01". There is a step-by-step guide somewhere in the wiki that describes how to create a efi boot medium - I followed it and the MBA recognized the SD card and efivars where available during the installation. Don't know whether this made a difference...
I'm currently running Arch with a 3.10 kernel.
How can I post a boot log? I don't know where to find / how to create it...
I suggest, that we move further non-wlan disscussions to https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=165899
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