So I am dual booting the latest OpenSuse KDE version on my Macbook 3,1 and I am enjoying it already. The default desktop is beautiful, and the mouse pad is fully supported which surprised me. Most Linux distros aren’t compatible with the gestures you can use like using two fingers and tapping on the pad to activate right click. But I was disappointed when my wireless didn’t work. The option is greyed out when I view the possible connections to use. I did some research and found I need some Broadcom thing so I downloaded these:
broadcom-wl-5.10.91.9.3-6.pm.9.4.x86_64
b43-4.150.10.5-2.pm.1.noarch
The second one installed fine but the first one says it needs “broadcom-wl” but I thought the first one was “broadcom-wl”.
How can I get wireless working on my MacBook?
Also these are my wireless card details:
On 11/26/2009 04:06 PM, 333mhz wrote:
>
> So I am dual booting the latest OpenSuse KDE version on my Macbook 3,1
> and I am enjoying it already. The default desktop is beautiful, and the
> mouse pad is fully supported which surprised me. Most Linux distros
> aren’t compatible with the gestures you can use like using two fingers
> and tapping on the pad to activate right click. But I was disappointed
> when my wireless didn’t work. The option is greyed out when I view the
> possible connections to use. I did some research and found I need some
> Broadcom thing so I downloaded these:
>
> broadcom-wl-5.10.91.9.3-6.pm.9.4.x86_64
>
> b43-4.150.10.5-2.pm.1.noarch
>
> The second one installed fine but the first one says it needs
> “broadcom-wl” but I thought the first one was “broadcom-wl”.
>
> How can I get wireless working on my MacBook?
> Also these are my wireless card details:
>
> Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (4.170.25.10)
> AirPort Extreme (0x14E4, 0x88)
You may, or may not, need the broadcom-wl package. The details you provided are
not sufficient or misleading. I do not know what 0x14E4, 0x88 means. The 14e4 is
Broadcom’s vendor code, but what is the 0x88? To sort this out, issue the command
Oh, those details are from the MacOS system profiler. I’ll use the terminal to get full details ASAP.
Also I realized this is the wrong forum to post this in. Sorry.
On 11/27/2009 02:56 PM, 333mhz wrote:
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> So I tried this in the terminal and it just gave me a bunch of options
> like display and all this other weird ****.
The lspci command will list EVERYTHING connected to your PCI. To get rid of the
other stuff, I added the “grep” part. Please do
