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    no wireless on macbookpro 5,5

    Hi,

    my wireless has stopped working about a week ago. I was using the proprietary drivers that were automatically installed by ubuntu. The card still shows up in lspci, but does not in the network manager. With "lshw -C network" I get the following output:
    Code:
               *-network UNCLAIMED
                    description: Network controller
                    product: BCM4322 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller
                    vendor: Broadcom Corporation
                    physical id: 0
                    bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
                    version: 01
                    width: 64 bits
                    clock: 33MHz
                    capabilities: bus_master cap_list
                    configuration: latency=0
                    resources: memory:d3200000-d3203fff
    I've googled for it and found out that lshw labeling the device as "unclaimed" probably points to a driver problem. Since all guides I found for this card say, things work out of the box, I don't know what I shoud do?
    Any ideas?

    UPDATE: Problem SOLVED: Uninstalling linux-backports-modules... did the trick
    Last edited by ichigo; February 8th, 2010 at 02:14 PM.

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    Re: no wireless on macbookpro 5,5

    i would just reinstall the proprietary driver here
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    Re: no wireless on macbookpro 5,5

    Thx for the hint. I've tried to install it as the readme says but get stuck at point 4.:
    Code:
    inago@Naoshima:~/Desktop/broad$ sudo modprobe lib80211
    WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist, it will be ignored in a future release.
    inago@Naoshima:~/Desktop/broad$ sudo insmod wl.ko
    insmod: error inserting 'wl.ko': -1 Unknown symbol in module
    Don't know if it helps, but the output of the compile looked like:
    Code:
     sudo make
    KBUILD_NOPEDANTIC=1 make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build M=`pwd`
    make[1]: ディレクトリ `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.31-19-generic-pae' に入ります
      Building modules, stage 2.
      MODPOST 1 modules
    WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_LICENSE() in /home/inago/Desktop/broad/wl.o
    see include/linux/module.h for more information
    make[1]: ディレクトリ `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.31-19-generic-pae' から出ます

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    Re: no wireless on macbookpro 5,5

    did you install the kernel source ?
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    Re: no wireless on macbookpro 5,5

    Quote Originally Posted by linuxopjemac View Post
    did you install the kernel source ?
    I guess you mean the linux-headers-2.6.31-19-pae package. Yes, it is installed.

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    Re: no wireless on macbookpro 5,5

    If you compile some modules against the kernel, you need to have the kernel source installed. Correct me if I'm wrong.
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