Hi there,
Ok, im a long time user of linux at work, but as a result have very little drivers/hardware knowledge.
My problem is as follows:
- Make a liveusb of the latest opensuse
- booted it up on my macbook air (2011)
- everything works perfectly except wireless (there is simply a red x on the taskbar and when I click it there is no options to connect to anything)
Ive google as much as I can, and so have done a /sbin/lspci -nnk | grep net -iA2
and got:
02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM43224 802.11a/b/g/n [14e4:4353] (rev 01) Subsystem: Apple Inc. Device [106b:00e9] Kernel driver in use: bcma-pci-bridge
I now dont know where to go from here.
Can anyone help me?
Thanks!
On 03/13/2013 04:16 PM, freehat wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> Ok, im a long time user of linux at work, but as a result have very
> little drivers/hardware knowledge.
>
> My problem is as follows:
>
>
>
> - Make a liveusb of the latest opensuse
> - booted it up on my macbook air (2011)
> - everything works perfectly except wireless (there is simply a red x
> on the taskbar and when I click it there is no options to connect to
> anything)
>
>
> Ive google as much as I can, and so have done a /sbin/lspci -nnk | grep
> net -iA2
>
> and got:
>
>
> 02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM43224
> 802.11a/b/g/n [14e4:4353] (rev 01) Subsystem: Apple Inc. Device
> [106b:00e9] Kernel driver in use: bcma-pci-bridge
> I now dont know where to go from here.
>
> Can anyone help me?
What driver is loaded? Use lsmod to see. It appears that b43 may have grabbed
the device; however, you need brcmsmac.
I just finished up installation of 12.3 on a MacBookAir5,2 and had similar issues. Short term fix for me was to remove the b43 module and restart NetworkManager.
$ su -
rmmod b43
NetworkManager restart
I’ve also added a blacklist b43 line to [FONT=courier new]/etc/modprobe.d/50-blacklist.conf. That way the fix stayed after a reboot.[/FONT]