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: Re: LUG: MacBook
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: Matthew Frazier <mlfrazie@ncsu.[redacted]>
Date
: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 16:10:40 -0400
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There is a fairly complete list of Linux-supported Broadcom chips at wireless.kernel.org[1]. You can find your chip's PCI ID by running "lspci | grep 1434" and looking for a string in the format "14e4:XXXX".
If it's the 14e4:4331 (the one that ships in Macbook Pro 8,2's), then the official line is that it will be supported in kernel 3.2 (which is really good news�OTOH, since you're using Ubuntu you may have to manually build an updated kernel). If not, then it should have the support status somewhere on the list.
[1]http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43
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Regards ,
Matthew Frazier
On Aug 31, 2011, at 15:37 , 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