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giir

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From: Dallas TX

Registered: 2008-03-11

Posts: 8

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MacBook Pro Wireless

Howdy.

I have a MacBook Pro 4,1 - the last one prior to the aluminium update - and I have not been able to get wireless working. It's running a Broadcom BCM4328 (rev. 05).

I tried this: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=59148, and various other wiki related pages.

The 'wl' module has loaded correctly according to lsmod, but the eth1 interface is nowhere to be found (or any other interface for that matter).

I'm also running pommed and acpid, although I don't know if it would affect this.

Thanks for the help...

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palmer.caleb

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Registered: 2009-08-24

Posts: 4

Re: MacBook Pro Wireless

Hey I'm having the same problem except I'm running just a normal macbook with bcm4328.

When the wl module gets loaded I get the following message from dmesg:
"wl: module license 'Mixed/Proprietary' taints kernel." and eth1 is never registered.

However I have kind've a workaround that makes it work, although it's annoying.  Do this:
modprobe -r wl
modprobe b43
modprobe -r b43
modprobe wl

After the last modprobe I get this from dmesg:
"wl 0000:02:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
wl 0000:02:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
eth1 (wl): not using net_device_ops yet"

And it starts working.  I don't understand this at all.

palmer.caleb

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Registered: 2009-08-24

Posts: 4

Re: MacBook Pro Wireless

Just noticed this thread here:  http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=78671

I followed what was advised here and it fixed my issue:
blacklist b43 (which already had) and ssb (which was what I needed to do)

giir

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From: Dallas TX

Registered: 2008-03-11

Posts: 8

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Re: MacBook Pro Wireless

Worked like a charm. Thanks for your help.

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