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oclength5

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Registered: 2015-07-12

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MacBook Pro 11,5 (2015 15in) WiFi and Bluetooth?

So I have Arch installed (this laptop replaced the 11,2 or 11,3 I had before) and the only thing that I can't seem to get working yet is the WiFi and Bluetooth. Installing broadcom-wl-dkms leaves me with no WiFi at all. If I don't use that, the kernel sees that I have WiFi, although only seems to go with 2GHz and doesn't work over 5GHz.

00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Crystal Well DRAM Controller [8086:0d04] (rev 08)                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Crystal Well PCI Express x16 Controller [8086:0d01] (rev 08)                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
00:01.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Crystal Well PCI Express x8 Controller [8086:0d05] (rev 08)
00:01.2 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Crystal Well PCI Express x4 Controller [8086:0d09] (rev 08)
00:14.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family USB xHCI [8086:8c31] (rev 05)
00:16.0 Communication controller [0780]: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 [8086:8c3a] (rev 04)
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset High Definition Audio Controller [8086:8c20] (rev 05)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port #1 [8086:8c10] (rev d5)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port #3 [8086:8c14] (rev d5)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port #4 [8086:8c16] (rev d5)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation HM87 Express LPC Controller [8086:8c4b] (rev 05)
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family SMBus Controller [8086:8c22] (rev 05)
00:1f.6 Signal processing controller [1180]: Intel Corporation 8 Series Chipset Family Thermal Management Controller [8086:8c24] (rev 05)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Venus XT [Radeon HD 8870M / R9 M270X] [1002:6821] (rev 83)
01:00.1 Audio device [0403]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Cape Verde/Pitcairn HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 7700/7800 Series] [1002:aab0]
02:00.0 SATA controller [0106]: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd Device [144d:a801] (rev 01)
04:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM43602 802.11ac Wireless LAN SoC [14e4:43ba] (rev 01)
05:00.0 Multimedia controller [0480]: Broadcom Corporation 720p FaceTime HD Camera [14e4:1570]
06:00.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:156d]
07:00.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:156d]
07:03.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:156d]
07:04.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:156d]
07:05.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:156d]
07:06.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:156d]
08:00.0 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:156c]
09:00.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation DSL3510 Thunderbolt Controller [Cactus Ridge] [8086:1549]
0a:00.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation DSL3510 Thunderbolt Controller [Cactus Ridge] [8086:1549]
0b:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM57762 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe [14e4:1682]

I'm guessing that Bluetooth is part of the Broadcom BCM43602 that powers my WiFi. Has anyone got this working on theirs?

tech2077

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Registered: 2014-05-19

Posts: 10

Re: MacBook Pro 11,5 (2015 15in) WiFi and Bluetooth?

I have bluetooth working, and broadcom-wl does not work with with the adapter in 11,5. What kind of booting setup are you using. Also can you link to a pastebin of the outputs of lsmod and pacman -Q

oclength5

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Registered: 2015-07-12

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Re: MacBook Pro 11,5 (2015 15in) WiFi and Bluetooth?

lsmod:
http://pastebin.com/d1AR3VQF

pacman:
http://pastebin.com/MAWMGyJ5

I hope it's something simple that I missed!

tech2077

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Registered: 2014-05-19

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Re: MacBook Pro 11,5 (2015 15in) WiFi and Bluetooth?

I can't see any real difference, my bluetooth worked out of box when I installed. I only have blueman, bluez, bluez-libs, and python2-pybluez installed and my setup is working.

oclength5

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Registered: 2015-07-12

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Re: MacBook Pro 11,5 (2015 15in) WiFi and Bluetooth?

It says no adapters available for me in Plasma/KDE. Very weird.

A bug I noticed and probably keyring related, is that I don't see the prompt for a WiFi password, it actually appears for a split second and then disappears and I have to recreate WiFi connections every time. This was the same on my 11,3 as well, so likely a bug in Plasma as opposed to anything else.

I also noticed that using FN and the down arrow doesn't work as a PGDN anymore. I'll have to look into that as well.

tech2077

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Registered: 2014-05-19

Posts: 10

Re: MacBook Pro 11,5 (2015 15in) WiFi and Bluetooth?

It says no adapters available for me in Plasma/KDE. Very weird.

A bug I noticed and probably keyring related, is that I don't see the prompt for a WiFi password, it actually appears for a split second and then disappears and I have to recreate WiFi connections every time. This was the same on my 11,3 as well, so likely a bug in Plasma as opposed to anything else.

I also noticed that using FN and the down arrow doesn't work as a PGDN anymore. I'll have to look into that as well.

The kernel patch I used worked for that.

parszab

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Registered: 2015-09-17

Posts: 5

Re: MacBook Pro 11,5 (2015 15in) WiFi and Bluetooth?

Hi Guys,
did you succeed in setting up the wifi? I can't seem to be able to figure it out, would appreciate any hints!

Thanks,
PSz