Macbook Pro 8,1 + Maverick

[ruiferreira]

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?

[gforster]

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.

[ruiferreira]

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.

[gforster]

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.

[ruiferreira]

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.

[gforster]

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)

[patientfox]

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 :/

[gforster]

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.

[geek0101]

Hello guys,

I would like to get on board with this thread. I just got the 17" 2011 mbp and no wifi.

[huwshimi]

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.