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flxfxp
April 23rd, 2009, 03:22 PM
Hello,

Short question: How do I get wireless working on 9.04 for the Macbook Air?

Thanks,

Dennis
flxfxp
April 23rd, 2009, 03:41 PM
Post scriptum: The method described in the 8.10 wiki entry does not work.
cyberdork33
April 23rd, 2009, 08:34 PM
Post scriptum: The method described in the 8.10 wiki entry does not work.
Did you look in System > Administration > Hardware Drivers
flxfxp
April 24th, 2009, 01:02 PM
Yes, it says the Broadcom STA wireless drive is activated and in use. However, it does not give a scan option to the network manager. In Network tools I only have my loopback and "Unknown Interface (pan0)".

Regards,

Dennis
cyberdork33
April 24th, 2009, 01:30 PM
Yes, it says the Broadcom STA wireless drive is activated and in use. However, it does not give a scan option to the network manager.
Have you rebooted since then?
flxfxp
April 24th, 2009, 01:48 PM
Ah, my mistake :)
However, it wont access any wireless networks. I tried WPA Personal and WEP 128 bit.

Regards,

Dennis
flxfxp
April 27th, 2009, 05:19 AM
Anyone? I still can't connect to wireless networks.
I tried setting it up using a static address, but that didn't make a difference.

Help is very much appreciated.

Regards,

Dennis
maffix
April 28th, 2009, 05:18 AM
First excuse for my bad English!
I have had the same problem like you. I think it's a bug, but I have solved it so.
Open Synaptic and search and install "b43-fwcutter", it worked for me!

Good luck!
__david
April 28th, 2009, 05:29 AM
I got wifi working on a MBP by deactivating the driver and activating it again (then reboot). Maybe that works for you, too?
maffix
April 28th, 2009, 06:04 AM
No, because when deactivating and after activating the "Driver hardware" tool it did not downloaded and extracted anything regarding broadcom's firmware.
Also rebooting did not work for me!

PS: I have installed Jaunty Jacalope 64bit on Macbook Pro 4,1 with the same wireless driver.
flxfxp
April 28th, 2009, 01:19 PM
I installed "b43-fwcutter" and rebooted. Wireless works :D

Thanks,

Dennis
peakperformance
April 28th, 2009, 01:22 PM
I also deactivated and activated the hardware driver, networking worked fine after reboot
cyberdork33
April 28th, 2009, 10:05 PM
No, because when deactivating and after activating the "Driver hardware" tool it did not downloaded and extracted anything regarding broadcom's firmware.
Also rebooting did not work for me!

PS: I have installed Jaunty Jacalope 64bit on Macbook Pro 4,1 with the same wireless driver.
the broadcom supplied driver does nto require separate firmware like b43 does.