MacBook Pro 5,5 Wireless Issues

sampotter · 2010-11-05 00:43:29

Hey all,

(first, and to be clear, I've followed instructions at the MacBook Aluminum, MacBook, and Broadcom BCM43XX wiki entries and have hunted around extraneously for more information)

I'm running a Arch on a 13" MacBook Pro 5,5. Output from uname -rpm:

2.6.35-ARCH i686 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P8700 @ 2.53GHz

Specifically, I'm having issues with the broadcom-wl driver. Here is what I've done so far. My wireless card is the following (according to lscpi): [14e4:432b].

- I built broadcom-wl from AUR and installed it
- I manually loaded the driver (after moving b43 and ssb)
- I have run depmod -a a number of times (not sure what depmod -a does, though, so I was a bit unclear if this is something that needs to be done in order with to other steps)
- I updated my /etc/rc.conf MODULES section to: MODULES=(!snd-pcspk lib80211 wl !b43 !ssb). I've also tried this with lib80211_crypt_tkip, to the same effect (same modules end up getting loaded -- both lib80211 and lib80211_crypt_tkip... seems to be some sort of dependency between them).

What concerns me is my iwconfig and iwlist output:

[sam@molly ~]$ iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      IEEE 802.11  Nickname:""
          Access Point: Not-Associated   
          Link Quality:5  Signal level:0  Noise level:199
          Rx invalid nwid:0  invalid crypt:1  invalid misc:0

eth1      no wireless extensions.

[sam@molly ~]$ iwlist scan
lo        Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth0      Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth1      Interface doesn't support scanning.

So, it seems that my wireless interface is being detected and loaded to some extent, but not to the point of functioning. Does anyone have any suggestions? I'm glad to provide more information. I feel like maybe I'm not doing something exceedingly obvious...

Thanks very much everyone!

Allan · 2010-11-05 00:49:05

Try rebuilding your kernel image and rebooting.

/sbin/mkinitcpio -p kernel26

I seem to remember that being needed at some stage... but I could be entirely on the wrong track.

sampotter · 2010-11-05 01:05:44

Gave it a try, unfortunately I'm still getting the same output as posted above.

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#1 2010-11-05 00:43:29

MacBook Pro 5,5 Wireless Issues

#2 2010-11-05 00:49:05

Re: MacBook Pro 5,5 Wireless Issues

#3 2010-11-05 01:05:44

Re: MacBook Pro 5,5 Wireless Issues

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