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halfloaf

Member

Registered: 2010-04-03

Posts: 4

Network connections on Mac Pro

Hi all, first post.

I've just successfully (in my opinion) installed the latest Arch distrib from CD onto my 2008 Mac Pro. So far so good (and very fast!)

I've come across two issues, one being more important than the other. I cannot seem to get my network connections sorted out.

I have 2x onboard Intel ethernet connections (eth0 & eth1) and a Airport Extreme card (Broadcom BCM4328 rev 03)

lspci | grep Network
0d:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4328 802.11a/b/g/n (rev 03)

 ifconfig -a
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:23:32:30:E9:C0  
          inet addr:192.168.1.66  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:2829 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:2847 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 
          RX bytes:1869701 (1.7 Mb)  TX bytes:457029 (446.3 Kb)
          Memory:93c20000-93c40000 

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:23:32:30:E9:C1  
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
          Memory:93c00000-93c20000 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1D:4F:FF:C3:38  
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
          Interrupt:19

# iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

wlan0     IEEE 802.11abgn  ESSID:""  Nickname:""
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Access Point: Not-Associated   
          Bit Rate:2 Mb/s   Tx-Power:24 dBm   
          Retry min limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Managementmode:All packets received
          Link Quality=5/5  Signal level=0 dBm  Noise level=0 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

eth0      no wireless extensions.

eth1      no wireless extensions.

Network Manager does not report any of the network interfaces. When I boot the system, "Starting Network" takes for ages and then [FAILS] as the dhcpcd daemon times out. I can however get onto the net?!? If I exclude eth1 and wlan0 from rc.conf then it all goes OK.

For what it's worth, my setup is: ADSL router connected to Mac via ethernet (Only for setup purposes), Airport express base station  connected to ADSL router. (the later being my preffered setup...no wires!)

I'm trying to unplug the ethernet link and only make use of the wireless.

I have installed the wl Broadcom module and blacklisted the older modules.

MODULES=(lib80211_crypt_tkip wl !b43 !ssb !b43legacy !ndiswrapper !pcskr !snd_pcsp loop)

#Static IP example
#eth0="eth0 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255"
wlan0="dhcp"
eth0="dhcp"
eth1="dhcp"
INTERFACES=(wlan0 eth0 eth1)

# Routes to start at boot-up (in this order)
# Declare each route then list in ROUTES
#   - prefix an entry in ROUTES with a ! to disable it
#
gateway="default gw 192.168.1.254"
ROUTES=(!gateway)

192.168.1.254 is my DNS server in the ADSL router and also the default gateway.
My Airport Express is 10.0.1.2.

I've also had to statically assign hardware addresses to the interfaces due to the broadcom driver...

/etc/rc.d/udev/rules.d/10-networks.rules
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ATTR{address}=="00:1d:4f:ff:c3:38", NAME="wlan0"
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ATTR{address}=="00:23:32:30:e9:c0", NAME="eth0"
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ATTR{address}=="00:23:32:30:e9:c1", NAME="eth1

"

So, the question is, how do I get shot of the wired connection and only use wireless...but still have the option of going wired if required. Should I be using netcfg??? I haven't done anything with WPA on the wireless side yet???

Any help would be appreciated...

Thanks!

Links referred to...

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners'_Guide
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Broadcom_BCM4312
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MacBook

Jacques

TheCox

Member

From: Orlando, FL

Registered: 2010-02-23

Posts: 34

Re: Network connections on Mac Pro

Did you try

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Networkmanager

halfloaf

Member

Registered: 2010-04-03

Posts: 4

Re: Network connections on Mac Pro

No, thanks. I've wiped Arch but will install again soon. I'll give networkmanager a go. Thanks.