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sagreble

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Registered: 2015-05-09

Posts: 6

[SOLVED] Wireless on MBP 2012

Hi,

I've been using a macbook with Arch without any troubles except on the wireless for now. I've followed this tutorial using the b43-firmware package from AUR (using v5). So the problem is... wireless works, but I can't go faster than 100KB/s. I don't know why, with ethernet I'm up to 1MB/s, with my other computer in wireless too, but not with that one. Using the FTP, I can go up to 400KB/s for few seconds and after that, there is a kind of throttle on the card somehow, weird. Also, there is no power management, at least not that I know of.

Any idea? Should I try the v6?

Last edited by sagreble (2015-05-15 09:23:32)

sagreble

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Registered: 2015-05-09

Posts: 6

Re: [SOLVED] Wireless on MBP 2012

Hi again,

I've been helped by bsdtux on IRC, they had the same problem. I solved it by:
Moving from linux-lts to linux and using broadcom-wl instead of b43-firmware.