Re: LUG: MacBook - Wed, 31 Aug 2011 15:44:30 -0400

It looks like kernel 3.1 will include support for this chipset. Alternatively right now it appears to work via ndiswrapper, but it makes the machine fairly unstable. It's also possible to install the new drivers if you're willing to compile the wireless-testing kernel and use that.

Anyways, these answers all kind of suck. It shouldn't be too long before 3.1 gets released thought, and I suspect there will be plenty of guides to install it on the new Macbook Pros shortly after if you aren't comfortable compiling your own kernel.

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Michael Wright

On Wednesday, August 31, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Nicholas Almond wrote:

I recently (and by recently I mean in May) purchased a MacBook Pro 13 in, and I wanted to dual boot with Ubuntu 11.04. (and possibly triple boot with Windows 7, but that's another issue) I actually successfully dual booted, with only one major problem, no wireless. I did some googleing and found that Ubuntu doesn't have the drivers for the "MacBook Pro Early 2011" models. I used model identifier and I have "MacBookPro8,1." Does anyone know of a way to get wireless working on these newer MacBooks or do I have to wait for Broadcom to release the drivers (if so, do you think they will release the drivers?)? I would really like to run Ubuntu on this computer without Virtualbox and with wireless.

Thanks,
Nick