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Macbook Pro 8,1 + Maverick
I've created this thread so that people can post their experiences of ubuntu on their (brand new) macpro.
Here's mine:
Macbook Early 2011. 13 inch. Base Model. No external graphics card (just the one that comes with sandy bridge).
- Wireless not working. No suggested proprietary driver. Even downloading the wl driver directly from broadcom does not work. The network card is Broadcom 4331 which is brandnew and doesn't seem to be supported by any driver.
- Intel Sandy Bridge graphics not working.
- New webcam HD facetime webcam or whatever isight is called now, works out of the box.
Didn't try anything else yet. What's your experience?
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I have the 15 inch 2.3 Ghz Macbook pro. It is a nice machine, but when installing ubuntu I am experiencing similar problems with wireless. I have the AMD graphics and it did recognize the amd graphics processor.
Mine also says it is the 8,2 model number, not 8,1.
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The sandy bridge graphics are supposed to be supported in 2.6.38 so I'm not worrying too much about that. The wireless on the other hand... broadcom has an history with linux.
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After playing with it a little more I need to amend what I wrote earlier.
The AMD graphics don't completely work. Desktop effects and 3D is working, but there is a little box in the bottom-right corner telling me that it is AMD unsupported hardware. It looks as if the driver has not been released for linux yet.
The broadcom wireless/card reader chip is the broadcom "NetXtreme 57765." Apparently this is supposed to be in the kernel, but something is missing.
http://www.broadcom.com/support/ethe...rivers.php#tg3
Multitouch is not working on the trackpad, I'm reading lots of information, but none of it seems to apply to this machine.
I can live with the weird AMD message concerning my unsupported hardware (for now) but wireless is pretty important.
I haven't tested the card reader or the thunderbolt port yet either.
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The NetXtreme 57765 is the wired network card. It was supported out of the box in ubuntu with the tg3 module. For the wireless I think the most likely solution is the brcm80211. I'm not sure if the device is supported but at least there are some defines in the source code to deal with the Broadcom 4331.
Maybe a good option would be try and upgrade to natty and see what happens. I'll try that next time i'm close to a wired network.
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ruiferreira
Maybe a good option would be try and upgrade to natty and see what happens. I'll try that next time i'm close to a wired network.
I will do this when I finish copying all of my files over from my old laptop (another 7 hours to go - I wish that thunderbolt port would do me some good right now:))
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Natty is no help, still no wifi. Does the Fn key work for you guys?
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In natty I got the graphics working fine (intel hd 3000). Also no wireless, touchpad, fn, etc - I didn't make a big effort to get them working anyway, with no wireless no dice.
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Originally Posted by
Amaranth
Natty is no help, still no wifi. Does the Fn key work for you guys?
Have you tried the brcm80211 driver for wireless?
I plan to buy a new Macbook Pro myself, but without wifi it's pretty useless.
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I tried the brcm80211 that comes with 2.6.38-5 with no luck. I didn't try anything from staging of staging-next.
-Rui
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Got the wifi to work with ndiswrapper at least, submitting this post with it. I used the attached driver with ndiswrapper and on natty had to modify ndiswrapper itself to compile against the 2.6.38 kernel but you shouldn't have to worry about that in maverick.
Sorry about the double compression but I needed to use 7z to get it small enough to attach and gz to get a file format the forum would allow. file-roller should open it without problems although you may need to install the p7zip package first.
Edit: Since the wiki links to this post I thought I should update it with the current status. It seems for many people installing this driving and loading the ndiswrapper module causes the kernel to hang which can even cause the computer to fail to boot due to it loading the module on boot. When it does load correctly it appears to end up causing the internal keyboard and mouse to stop responding after a short time. I would advise using this as a last resort if you cannot use ethernet or some kind of USB networking (tethering, wifi dongle, etc).
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Thank you for that driver. I will be installing it soon. Once I can get my touchpad working. I don't know what I did, but I can't click on anything. I'm comfortable enough with using the keyboard, but sometimes, you just need the cursor.
At this point I have messed with som many different configuration files and it is still early enough in the process that I may just wipe and start over again.
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Originally Posted by
Amaranth
Got the wifi to work with ndiswrapper at least, submitting this post with it. I used the attached driver with ndiswrapper and on natty had to modify ndiswrapper itself to compile against the 2.6.38 kernel but you shouldn't have to worry about that in maverick.
I'm purchasing an 8,1 MBP in the next few days and am planning on going straight to natty. Can you post a patch for your ndiswrapper changes or maybe submit them upstream? I understand, based on the topic, that this thread is about maverick, but it seems to make a lot more sense, for most users, to go straight to the natty alphas (since they won't necessarily have to deal w/ the xorg-edges ppa, etc to get video working)
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Thanks, I can confirm that the driver with ndiswrapper works fine (tried on natty). I'm experiencing some freezes from time to time on booting but i'm not sure that's due to the wifi driver or something else being natty unstable.
The next step is to get the touchpad + fn keys working. there's still no mactel ppa for natty so i'll try to install bcm5974-dkms from source and post the results here.
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Yeah, bcm5974-dkms doesn't include the ID for the touchpad in the 8,1 and adding it to the driver doesn't make things work so I suspect more work is needed there.
As far as ndiswrapper goes, I later discovered upstream SVN already has the exact same changes I made so I wasted time duplicating effort there.
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FYI, I've created a new community doc page at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBookPro8-1/Natty
I've also added a link to the page from the main MacbookPro page on the community doc site. The page also links back to this thread.
Please feel free to update with any info you discover over time. I will begin working on it myself and get it into shape along with the other pages. As stated in my previous post, I think focusing on Natty makes a lot of sense, going forward (but that's just my opinion).
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Ok, so after a reboot loading ndiswrapper in to the kernel causing it to hang quite solidly. Back to the drawing board...
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Originally Posted by
ruiferreira
The network card is Broadcom 4331 which is brandnew and doesn't seem to be supported by any driver.
Has anyone verified that this is the case with the newest broadcom proprietary drivers? Specifically the ones at http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php ?
It lists the 4311 as being supported.. so is 4331 a typo, perhaps? If not, the linked page has a support mailing list for linux issues, maybe firing off a message to that list is in order?
Sorry I can't do much to help atm, still waiting to purchase my MBP :/
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Installed natty, ran updates, rebooted, and I can no longer start X. I'll have to figure out what went wrong later. Right now, I have to get some work done.
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Originally Posted by
Amaranth
Ok, so after a reboot loading ndiswrapper in to the kernel causing it to hang quite solidly. Back to the drawing board...
Any luck with this? Thanks heaps for your effort.
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Macbook Pro 8,3 is the 17" model; I'm having about the same experience as everyone else. I will try the broadcom driver first, then the ndiswrapper solution, but I think I'll update to natty first.
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huwshimi
Any luck with this? Thanks heaps for your effort.
Nope, newer versions of the driver don't work with ndiswrapper, older versions don't have support for the chip we have, and even pulling from ndiswrapper SVN ends up with either a kernel hang or at least modprobe hanging and the kernel hanging if you try to disrupt it.
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Amaranth
Nope, newer versions of the driver don't work with ndiswrapper, older versions don't have support for the chip we have, and even pulling from ndiswrapper SVN ends up with either a kernel hang or at least modprobe hanging and the kernel hanging if you try to disrupt it.
Is this likely to be affected at all by the fact you are trying with amd64?
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Well the older x86 driver still won't support the chip and the newer one fails due to trying to use a bunch of Windows kernel functions that ndiswrapper doesn't support so x86 won't help there.
There is a small chance x86 would help with the hanging but I doubt it and you give up too much by using x86 anyway.
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Amaranth
Well the older x86 driver still won't support the chip and the newer one fails due to trying to use a bunch of Windows kernel functions that ndiswrapper doesn't support so x86 won't help there.
There is a small chance x86 would help with the hanging but I doubt it and you give up too much by using x86 anyway.
Does that mean pretty much waiting for ndiswrapper to be updated before we get wireless then?
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The last commit to ndiswrapper was a couple weeks ago adding 2.5.38 compatibility. The one before that was 5 months ago. I doubt you'll see a fix on the ndiswrapper side for this. We just need a native driver.
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After playing some more with it, I am able to log in and use the system just fine using "classic desktop" mode. Using unity, it crashes repeatedly. Probably partly the bugs with unity, partly the absence of a correct driver for the radeon graphics card.
Webcam, sound, SD Card reader and microphone work out-of-the-box.
Monitor resolution is perfect.
Touchpad works as a normal touchpad, but I can't figure out how to get a right-click action out of it. Ctrl+click = middle mouse action (sometimes, like on hyperlinks, but won't close a firefox tab). Multitouch does not work.
Bluetooth is not recognized. Extended keyboard functions like play/pause, volume control, etc do not work.
Thunderbolt (Intel 6 Series Chipset Family HECI Controller #1) & SMBus (Intel 6 Series Chipset Family SMBus Controller), and Broadcom's Network controller are all listed as "UNCLAIMED" and are unrecognized.
This is on a base-install system with the most recent updates as of this post. I have not added any repositories or installed special applications except cheese to test the webcam and aptitude because I like it better than apt-get. No ubuntu-restricted-extras or mactel ppa.
Hope at least some of the info is helpful.
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gforster
After playing some more with it, I am able to log in and use the system just fine using "classic desktop" mode. Using unity, it crashes repeatedly. Probably partly the bugs with unity, partly the absence of a correct driver for the radeon graphics card.
Webcam, sound, SD Card reader and microphone work out-of-the-box.
Monitor resolution is perfect.
Touchpad works as a normal touchpad, but I can't figure out how to get a right-click action out of it. Ctrl+click = middle mouse action (sometimes, like on hyperlinks, but won't close a firefox tab). Multitouch does not work.
Bluetooth is not recognized. Extended keyboard functions like play/pause, volume control, etc do not work.
Thunderbolt (Intel 6 Series Chipset Family HECI Controller #1) & SMBus (Intel 6 Series Chipset Family SMBus Controller), and Broadcom's Network controller are all listed as "UNCLAIMED" and are unrecognized.
This is on a base-install system with the most recent updates as of this post. I have not added any repositories or installed special applications except cheese to test the webcam and aptitude because I like it better than apt-get. No ubuntu-restricted-extras or mactel ppa.
Hope at least some of the info is helpful.
Great news! Do you think you could update the wiki page? (I linked to it earlier in the thread) with this info?
Thanks.
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gforster
After playing some more with it, I am able to log in and use the system just fine using "classic desktop" mode. Using unity, it crashes repeatedly. Probably partly the bugs with unity, partly the absence of a correct driver for the radeon graphics card.
How does that work anyway? If i do nothing, is the radeon active as the default display adapter? It's more often the other way around on hybrid graphics laptops (intel is the "primary" display adapter).
What happens if one connects an external display (on the displayport i assume)? Does it work with either adapter active, or does the radeon have to be activated (like on most hybrid graphics solutions found in pc laptops)?
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Amaranth
Well the older x86 driver still won't support the chip and the newer one fails due to trying to use a bunch of Windows kernel functions that ndiswrapper doesn't support so x86 won't help there.
I suppose the best thing to do would be to report the logged output of ndiswrapper to the developers, so that with a little luck they could try to implement those unsupported windows kernel functions in ndiswrapper.
Also, my experience with ndiswrapper tells me you shouldn't give up so easily. One version of the windows driver might work perfectly, while another wont do anything at all. I also always try different flavours, like XP, VISTA and 2000 before i give up. I also try different versions of ndiswrapper, in combination with the above. It's a pain, but sometimes worth it.
This new chipset wouldn't by any chance be backwards compatible with some (linux native) driver from the same chipset family would it? Maybe you could try rebuilding some driver and just include the new device id?
I haven't got mine yet, so until then you guys are on your own :)
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patientfox
Great news! Do you think you could update the wiki page? (I linked to it earlier in the thread) with this info?
Thanks.
I just added what I could for now.
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Originally Posted by pelle.k
How does that work anyway? If i do nothing, is the radeon active as the default display adapter? It's more often the other way around on hybrid graphics laptops (intel is the "primary" display adapter).
The radeon is not active on my system (driver isn't installed), so I assume that it is the intel graphics that are working for me. It detects that radeon needs drivers, but they aren't the right ones. I tried to install them earlier and lost all graphical parts to the system. I am going to wait to install them until they are released.
I think I like the classic desktop mode better at this point anyway, but that is just a preference.
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Hey, dont want to come off pushy or anything but has any more work happened with documenting what works and dosnt on the wiki?
There are lots of question marks everywhere and im going to be in the market for a laptop VERY soon... these laptops are a choice so just wondering if anyone would be very nice and take the time to document:
3D Acceleration
HFS/HFS+
CD/DVD Writing
Suspend & Hibernate
also, does anyone think it would be possible to do a complete remap of the keyboard to try and get some of the buttons working?
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brian242r
Hey, dont want to come off pushy or anything but has any more work happened with documenting what works and dosnt on the wiki?
There are lots of question marks everywhere and im going to be in the market for a laptop VERY soon... these laptops are a choice so just wondering if anyone would be very nice and take the time to document:
3D Acceleration
HFS/HFS+
CD/DVD Writing
Suspend & Hibernate
also, does anyone think it would be possible to do a complete remap of the keyboard to try and get some of the buttons working?
I am positive that most if not all of this will be working (and documented) in the near future. But, right now there are only a few people that own this very new equipment. The work is being done to make sure it is compatible for the upcoming release of Natty which is right now in its alpha stages.
As for remapping keyboard buttons, I am positive this can be done, but I am trying to modify my system as little as possible for the time being.
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gforster
I am positive that most if not all of this will be working (and documented) in the near future. But, right now there are only a few people that own this very new equipment. The work is being done to make sure it is compatible for the upcoming release of Natty which is right now in its alpha stages.
As for remapping keyboard buttons, I am positive this can be done, but I am trying to modify my system as little as possible for the time being.
Fair enough call....
Do you think that ALL of it will work with Natty? even the integrated graphics?
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Originally Posted by
brian242r
Fair enough call....
Do you think that ALL of it will work with Natty? even the integrated graphics?
I have great faith in the community, so yes, I do believe it will all eventually be working. But, do not take that as a guarantee.
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I have not tested much, but most is already working fine, tho not documented. And when mactel is available for Natty I believe keyboard/backlight brightness, keys and so on will work as on earlier macbook pro's, which is perfectly.
The two small concerns I have is graphic and wireless. But the Sandy Bridge (HD3000) chip should work fine in 2.6.38, even with good performance (ref. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag..._13lines&num=1). And I have hopes that the broadcom wifi-chip will work with the new open-source driver in the mainline kernel. **fingers crossed!**
ndiswrapper is a ugly and hopefully temporary solution.
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Unless support for this chip suddenly emerges and the Ubuntu kernel team backports the support the open source driver will not support it. The driver in 2.6.38 does _not_ support this chip. Our best bet is to get a new binary driver from broadcom.
The intel graphics "works" but it is rather easy to crash the system or at least cause a GPU hang (even fullscreen youtube will do it). Hopefully mesa 7.10.1 will help with this as it has a bunch of sandy bridge fixes.
I have no idea what is happening with the Fn keys but I doubt it'll work out of the box on natty, it'll need a PPA.
I actually haven't closed the lid on this laptop since I installed natty so I'll have to see if suspend/resume works but intel is usually pretty good at that and since we currently don't even have drivers for mostly anything else I don't expect to see problems.
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Hello guys,
I would like to get on board with this thread. I just got the 17" 2011 mbp and no wifi.
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I just managed to get wireless working on my 8,2 using Amaranth's driver and boowebb's instructions. Working fine and no crashes so far.
The instructions are up on the wiki page: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Ma...Natty#Wireless
Note: you HAVE to be using amd64 for this to work.
Thanks a lot to Amaranth and boowebb for getting this working.
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Okay I tried sudo update-manager -d and let me tell you what.... FAIL. I am setting up for a straight fresh install of natty, my screen went all wonky. And to top it off the wifi would show the networks but wouldnt connect. Any ideas?
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Fresh install and it is running a bit better. Any luck on the sound, mine is not working.
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it wont connect to the wireless networks, but sees them, any input?
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b16a2smith
Fresh install and it is running a bit better. Any luck on the sound, mine is not working.
I had to make sure that the volume was turned up and not muted in the preferences. I am not sure why it was muted after install. After I unchecked mute, the sound worked fine.
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b16a2smith
it wont connect to the wireless networks, but sees them, any input?
I did a couple of things differently to the guide to get mine working, not sure what fixed it though.
In /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf I removed "bcm43xx" from the bottom as it was a duplicate for me.
I also did not add "ndiswrapper" to /etc/modules as it was stopping Ubuntu from booting.
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So where can I keep a close eye on development for this machine/series? I would like to know when a nice stable build will be working, thanks guys!
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b16a2smith
So where can I keep a close eye on development for this machine/series? I would like to know when a nice stable build will be working, thanks guys!
Probably your best bet is to keep an eye on the wiki page. It'll probably be the best collection of what's working.
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Watching very closely to see what new is working. I am so pumped.
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b16a2smith
Watching very closely to see what new is working. I am so pumped.
As am I, buying in April a couple of days Natty comes out so hopfuly the fixes will be good....
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag..._13lines&num=1
Can't wait to get my new macbook pro. Hopefully I can get compiz to work, thats all I'm worried about.
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Has anyone had any luck with the trackpad?
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Also, who is using maverick? If so are you on the .38 - 7 kernel? how is it?
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b16a2smith
Has anyone had any luck with the trackpad?
In what regard? It works insomuch as you can move the cursor and left-click. Right-click and multitouch do not work.
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Confirmed that CD/DVD writing works fine out-of-the-box. External monitor also works fine (I used the mini DisplayPort to VGA adapter).
This is one incredibly fast and hardworking machine. I am getting excited as more and more things are getting checked off of the list and progress is being made getting the hardware working.
I cannot test the firewire port as I don't have nay firewire devices. It is recognized with lshw, but that doesn't necessarily mean that it works correctly. I have an apple remote somewhere that I should be able to test later. After that, only the 3D acceleration, which I can't quite get working correctly, remains with a question mark on the wiki. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBookPro8-1/Natty
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I still have troubles with my wifi...I've followed the instructions in this link : https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Ma...Natty#Wireless
i get:
bcmwl5 : driver installed
device (14E4:4331) present
but iwconfig give me this result:
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
please help me!
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Hi,
can someone please provide some more hardware details, i.e., by attaching the output of the following commands:
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lspci -vnn > lspci.txt 2>&1
sudo lsusb -v > lsusb.txt 2>&1
sudo acpidump > acpidump.bin
The files should be named: lspci.txt, lsusb.txt, and acpidump.bin. The latter command needs the additional package acpidump.
Please don't forget to mention your exact machine. If in doubt, run:
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sudo dmidecode --string system-product-name
thanks & ciao,
Mario
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Hope this helps
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How is the wireless performance? Is it stable? WPA?
I'm asking since i have a MBP 7.1 with 10.10, and it works, but it disconnects once in a while and doesn't perform anywhere near as good as OSX.
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Espen11
How is the wireless performance? Is it stable? WPA?
I'm asking since i have a MBP 7.1 with 10.10, and it works, but it disconnects once in a while and doesn't perform anywhere near as good as OSX.
Right now it is very finnicky, I attribute it to new hardware on an alpha-release operating system. I think it will get better.
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The tab for the touchpad under System > Preferences > Mouse is missing. I thought it was there earlier (last week or so), but I could be mistaken. Does anyone know how to get it back?
I am wondering because not being able to right-click is driving me crazy.
Also, I can't find any indication as to when the Mactel PPA for Natty will be available. Any ideas? Should (can) I use the one from maverick?
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Originally Posted by
gforster
The tab for the touchpad under System > Preferences > Mouse is missing. I thought it was there earlier (last week or so), but I could be mistaken. Does anyone know how to get it back?
I am wondering because not being able to right-click is driving me crazy.
Also, I can't find any indication as to when the Mactel PPA for Natty will be available. Any ideas? Should (can) I use the one from maverick?
For that we need a driver for the touchpad, which we currently don't have.
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Hey @Amaranth & @GForster hey thank you guys so much for the work, I know nothing about code and drivers. I will be sending you guys some "coffee" money as soon as possible.
Once again thank you so much.
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Amaranth
For that we need a driver for the touchpad, which we currently don't have.
That is what I thought, but wasn't sure. I guess it is kind of a hurry-up-and-wait game for the moment.
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On MacBookPro8,2 I tried to install the driver per the wiki page. When I run
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sudo ndiswrapper -i ~/Download/amd64/bcmwl5.inf
(note that the filename is actually an 'l'(L), not a '1'(one)) I get the following error:
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couldn't find "BCMWL5.SYS" in "/root/download/amd64"; make sure all driver files, including .inf, .sys (and any firmware files) are in "/root/download/amd64" - installation may be complete
When I run an ndiswrapper -l I see
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bcmwl5: invalid driver!
Any ideas?
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remove the currently installed driver
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ndiswrapper -r bcmwl5.inf
make sure you have extracted the entire file
navigate into the correct directory (it shows above that you were in your root folder, not your home folder)then
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ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf
pick it up from that point and you should be good
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hinckeyboy4jc
On MacBookPro8,2 I tried to install the driver per the wiki page. When I run (note that the filename is actually an 'l'(L), not a '1'(one)) I get the following error:
When I run an ndiswrapper -l I see
Any ideas?
I had the some problem..i solved renaming the sys file in bcmwl5.sys
i gues you have linux 32 bit (as me)...my wifi did'nt work with those driver..
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Ciao Mario! grazie per l'aiuto:D
attached you can find the lspci.txt, lsusb.txt and acpidump.txt
my macbook is a 8.1 13".
I have ubuntu 10.10
I hope you can help me somehow
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danix84
I had the some problem..i solved renaming the sys file in bcmwl5.sys
i gues you have linux 32 bit (as me)...my wifi did'nt work with those driver..
renaming the .sys file worked.
When I get to the
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sudo modprobe ndiswrapper
I get the error
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FATAL: Module ndiswrapper not found.
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Re: Macbook Pro 8,1 + Maverick
Just wanted to let you all know, I've managed to patch my kernel to make the bcm5974 driver properly detect the trackpad (and give multi-finger click, etc).
I've also managed to make it detect the keyboard fn-buttons too, so the sound buttons work, and you get the page-up, page-down, end and home buttons.
I'm working on a patch now so I can send it upstream. The trackpad code will probably go into the dkms module, but the keyboard stuff needs the usbhid driver patched, so that might have to wait for ubuntu to pick it up into their kernel.
I'll post more info once the patch is done!
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Re: Macbook Pro 8,1 + Maverick
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Originally Posted by
andybotting
Just wanted to let you all know, I've managed to patch my kernel to make the bcm5974 driver properly detect the trackpad (and give multi-finger click, etc).
I've also managed to make it detect the keyboard fn-buttons too, so the sound buttons work, and you get the page-up, page-down, end and home buttons.
I'm working on a patch now so I can send it upstream. The trackpad code will probably go into the dkms module, but the keyboard stuff needs the usbhid driver patched, so that might have to wait for ubuntu to pick it up into their kernel.
I'll post more info once the patch is done!
sound good!
How did you managed to fix the wifi problem? I'm using ubuntu 10.10 but my wifi card doesn't' work:(
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Re: Macbook Pro 8,1 + Maverick
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danix84
How did you managed to fix the wifi problem? I'm using ubuntu 10.10 but my wifi card doesn't' work:(
No love for the WiFi yet. I think that'll be a lot harder to solve than the trackpad :)
I was hoping Broadcom's wifi code donation would have extended to the new chip in these machines. They may be still working on it, I don't know
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Re: Macbook Pro 8,1 + Maverick
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andybotting
No love for the WiFi yet. I think that'll be a lot harder to solve than the trackpad :)
I was hoping Broadcom's wifi code donation would have extended to the new chip in these machines. They may be still working on it, I don't know
I trust you already tried just adding the pci-id to the brcm80211 driver?
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Re: Macbook Pro 8,1 + Maverick
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Originally Posted by
andybotting
Just wanted to let you all know, I've managed to patch my kernel to make the bcm5974 driver properly detect the trackpad (and give multi-finger click, etc).
I've also managed to make it detect the keyboard fn-buttons too, so the sound buttons work, and you get the page-up, page-down, end and home buttons.
I'm working on a patch now so I can send it upstream. The trackpad code will probably go into the dkms module, but the keyboard stuff needs the usbhid driver patched, so that might have to wait for ubuntu to pick it up into their kernel.
I'll post more info once the patch is done!
Can you post these patches somewhere? Did you have to do more than add device ids? I have the 8,2, just haven't had time to look into the linux issues yet.
I did notice that it boots and uses the ati gfx chip exclusively. The radon fb supports it, and the radeon Xorg driver detects and uses it as a 'turks' generation so that appears to work too. The laptop is running very hot though, and consumes ~30-32W which is about double that it should. So I'm guessing some power management isn't done yet for that ati model.
That is the only test I did so far, booting the natty alpha 3 on the laptop.
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Re: Macbook Pro 8,1 + Maverick
For natty users: here are packages for testing, including Andy's patches, many thanks for those! Expect keyboard and multitouch trackpad support to work on the new MBP models.
For maverick users: Upgrade to natty alpha. Seriously. The kernel support in maverick was so poor for the late 2010 models that you will definitely be better off with an alpha version.
Enjoy!
One more thing - _do_ install all packages (in order hid, hid-apple, bcm5974) before rebooting, or you may find it difficult to use the keyboard and/or trackpad ;-)
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Re: Macbook Pro 8,1 + Maverick
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Originally Posted by
kosumi68
For natty users: here are packages for testing, including Andy's patches, many thanks for those! Expect keyboard and multitouch trackpad support to work on the new MBP models.
For maverick users: Upgrade to natty alpha. Seriously. The kernel support in maverick was so poor for the late 2010 models that you will definitely be better off with an alpha version.
Enjoy!
One more thing - _do_ install all packages (in order hid, hid-apple, bcm5974) before rebooting, or you may find it difficult to use the keyboard and/or trackpad ;-)
Could you please, for the sake of newer users please post some sort of instructions?