Ubuntu on mac No Network adapters

**jessepage1989** · February 18th, 2012

i think i will upgrade my kernel then.

**josephmills** · February 18th, 2012

Originally Posted by jessepage1989

i think i will upgrade my kernel then.

ok then open terminal

Code:

cd ~/Downloads

then

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mkdir kernel

then download these three files

http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa...12035_i386.deb

http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa...012035_all.deb

http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa...12035_i386.deb

back to terminal

Code:

cd ~/Downloads

copy the three files into the dir that you made

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cp linux-* ~/Downloads/kernel/

then cd in kernel

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cd ~/Downloads/kernel/

now do a

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ls

Do you see the 3 files in there ? this is important all 3 have to be in there. after you see that they are in there time to build

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sudo dpkg -i *.deb

then

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sudo update-grub

then

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sudo reboot

Now boot into your 3.2 r4 kernel

then open terminal

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sudo apt-get install bcmwl-kernel-source b43-fwcutter firmware-b43-installer

then

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sudo reboot

boot into 3,2 r4

ddo you have wireless ?

**jessepage1989** · February 18th, 2012

no wireless but i have Ethernet. running updates now

**josephmills** · February 18th, 2012

Originally Posted by jessepage1989

no wireless but i have Ethernet. running updates now

umm.. could we see a

Code:

dmesg | grep b43

after update and upgrade thanks also a

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rfkill list all && lsmod

thanks

**jessepage1989** · February 18th, 2012

Code:

jesse@jesse-laptop:~$ dmesg | grep b43
[   13.290011] b43-phy0: Broadcom 4331 WLAN found (core revision 29)
[   13.290468] b43-phy0 ERROR: FOUND UNSUPPORTED PHY (Analog 9, Type 7, Revision 1)
[   13.290505] b43: probe of bcma0:0 failed with error -95
jesse@jesse-laptop:~$ rfkill list all && lsmod
0: hci0: Bluetooth
	Soft blocked: no
	Hard blocked: no
Module                  Size  Used by
nls_iso8859_1          12617  1 
nls_cp437              12751  1 
vfat                   17266  1 
fat                    55347  1 vfat
binfmt_misc            17258  1 
ppdev                  12900  0 
rfcomm                 37611  4 
bridge                 79297  0 
stp                    12811  1 bridge
bnep                   17749  2 
snd_hda_codec_hdmi     31547  1 
snd_hda_codec_cirrus    23281  1 
snd_hda_intel          32396  2 
snd_hda_codec          99529  3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_cirrus,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep              13272  1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm                76379  3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
b43                   323010  0 
snd_seq_midi           13132  0 
mac80211              425736  1 b43
snd_rawmidi            25103  1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event     14475  1 snd_seq_midi
cfg80211              169184  2 b43,mac80211
snd_seq                51256  2 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer              24609  2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
mei                    36087  0 
joydev                 17313  0 
lp                     13349  0 
parport                36664  2 ppdev,lp
i915                  403227  2 
bcm5974                17223  0 
ssb                    46176  1 b43
drm_kms_helper         36749  1 i915
drm                   197071  2 i915,drm_kms_helper
sdhci_pci              18264  0 
applesmc               18920  0 
sdhci                  27687  1 sdhci_pci
bcma                   25387  1 b43
btusb                  17979  2 
snd_seq_device         14130  3 snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
i2c_algo_bit           13152  1 i915
snd                    55724  14 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_cirrus,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
input_polldev          13648  1 applesmc
soundcore              12600  1 snd
snd_page_alloc         14036  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
apple_bl               13049  0 
bluetooth             153156  23 rfcomm,bnep,btusb
uvcvideo               66495  0 
videodev               86260  1 uvcvideo
video                  18792  1 i915
hid_apple              13082  0 
usb_storage            43811  1 
uas                    17587  0 
usbhid                 45614  0 
hid                    81147  2 hid_apple,usbhid
tg3                   140230  0 
jesse@jesse-laptop:~$

**kaldor** · February 18th, 2012

Just a side note here, though I'm not extremely familiar with wireless (never had issues before).

I assume you're using Ubuntu 10.04.4 which came out a few days ago. This version has backported wireless drivers from Linux 3.x, so if your wireless isn't working right now then I doubt installing a new kernel would help much. Just thought I'd provide that bit of info just in case.

**josephmills** · February 18th, 2012

Originally Posted by jessepage1989

Code:

jesse@jesse-laptop:~$ dmesg | grep b43
[   13.290011] b43-phy0: Broadcom 4331 WLAN found (core revision 29)
[   13.290468] b43-phy0 ERROR: FOUND UNSUPPORTED PHY (Analog 9, Type 7, Revision 1)
[   13.290505] b43: probe of bcma0:0 failed with error -95
jesse@jesse-laptop:~$ rfkill list all && lsmod
0: hci0: Bluetooth
	Soft blocked: no
	Hard blocked: no
Module                  Size  Used by

b43                   323010  0 

mac80211              425736  1 b43

cfg80211              169184  2 b43,mac80211

ssb                    46176  1 b43

bcma                   25387  1 b43

jesse@jesse-laptop:~$

ummm. try this I dont get the error to do with PHY. I will also google.
b43: probe of bcma0:0 failed with error -95

Code:

sudo rmmod b43

then

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sudo modprobe b43

if not

Code:

sudo rmmod b43

then reboot
then

Code:

sudo modprobe b43

**jessepage1989** · February 19th, 2012

same thing

i get the same readout when i enter

Code:

dmesg | grep b43

**josephmills** · February 19th, 2012

Originally Posted by jessepage1989

same thing

i get the same readout when i enter

Code:

dmesg | grep b43

arghh
alight I wrote a script called lastchance if this wont work then I am out of ideas

open terminal

Code:

gedit ~/lastchance

then paste this into your text editor (gedit)

Code:

#!/usr/bin/env bash 
##
##   This script will install the b43 modual to you computer 
##   This is only for Kernels that are 3.2 and up 
############################################################
#
#Making Varibles 
clear 
kern=$(uname -r)
cb43=$(lsmod | grep b43);
cwl$=(lsmod | grep wl );
cbrcm80211=$(lsmod | grep brcm80211);
if $cb43;
 then
   sudo rmmod b43 && sudo apt-get remove --purge --assume-yes b43-fwcutter bcmwl-kernal-source firmware-b43-installer; 
 elif $cwl;  
 then
   sudo rmmod wl && sudo apt-get remove --purge --assume-yes  broadcom-sta-source broadcom-sta-common firmware-b43-installer;
 elif  $cbrcm80211;
 then 
 sudo modprobe brcm80211;
 else           
   echo "Cool"
 fi
clear
echo "Installing Dependency\'s "
sudo apt-get install --assume-yes linux-headers-$kern 
sudo apt-get install --assume-yes gcc 
sudo apt-get install --assume-yes make 
sudo apt-get install --assume-yes linux-libc-dev
sudo apt-get install --assume-yes notify-send
cd /home/$USER/
mkdir -p sandbox 
cd sandbox 
wget http://bu3sch.de/b43/fwcutter/b43-fwcutter-015.tar.bz2
tar xjf b43-fwcutter-015.tar.bz2
cd b43-fwcutter-015
make
sudo make install
cd ..
export FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR="/lib/firmware"
wget http://www.lwfinger.com/b43-firmware/broadcom-wl-5.100.138.tar.bz2
tar xjf broadcom-wl-5.100.138.tar.bz2
sudo b43-fwcutter -w "$FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR" broadcom-wl-5.100.138/linux/wl_apsta.o
cd ..
sudo rm -r sandbox
clear
notify-send "Your Install Is Done Please Reboot"

then save and go back to the termianl

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cd ~/

then

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chmod +x lastchance

then

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./lastchance

then reboot

if this does not work then I have no clue and everythign that I read here http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43 is wrong (which I know that that is not the case)

any ho good luck

**jessepage1989** · January 26th, 2013

Thanks for the help guys. I never got 10.04 up and running on my mac successfully with wifi adaptors. However I did give 12.04lts a try a few days ago and I am pleased to say that everything works fine. Didn't mean to give this a bump but i thought I thought i would share for future searchers what I have found and that is 12.04 works perfect with 2010 MBPs