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...
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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...
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
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.
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...
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FrameBuff erBase: 0x90000000
PixelsPerScanLine: 1280
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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.
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...
Try gaze.sourceforge.net it's a nice wallpaper switcher that fetches images from flickr. Just works with gnome, though :|