Macbook Pro wifi won't work
I opened xdiganose and it told me to go to http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware in order to download and install the wireless driver. I followed the instructions for Ubuntu and it aborted the installation saying something about an unsupported device (I should've saved the output, I'm using a late 2011 13" Macbook Pro.) Now when I try sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer I get this:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
firmware-b43-installer is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 338 not upgraded.
What do I do?
wireless broadcom mac macbook-pro
edited Jul 30 '13 at 22:25
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I opened xdiganose and it told me to go to http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware in order to download and install the wireless driver. I followed the instructions for Ubuntu and it aborted the installation saying something about an unsupported device (I should've saved the output, I'm using a late 2011 13" Macbook Pro.) Now when I try sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer I get this:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
firmware-b43-installer is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 338 not upgraded.
What do I do?
wireless broadcom mac macbook-pro
edited Jul 30 '13 at 22:25
BuZZ-dEE
9,315115170
asked Jul 21 '12 at 21:49
Chris DudleyChris Dudley
1112
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I opened xdiganose and it told me to go to http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware in order to download and install the wireless driver. I followed the instructions for Ubuntu and it aborted the installation saying something about an unsupported device (I should've saved the output, I'm using a late 2011 13" Macbook Pro.) Now when I try sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer I get this:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
firmware-b43-installer is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 338 not upgraded.
What do I do?
wireless broadcom mac macbook-pro
edited Jul 30 '13 at 22:25
BuZZ-dEE
9,315115170
asked Jul 21 '12 at 21:49
Chris DudleyChris Dudley
1112
I opened xdiganose and it told me to go to http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware in order to download and install the wireless driver. I followed the instructions for Ubuntu and it aborted the installation saying something about an unsupported device (I should've saved the output, I'm using a late 2011 13" Macbook Pro.) Now when I try sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer I get this:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
firmware-b43-installer is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 338 not upgraded.
What do I do?
wireless broadcom mac macbook-pro
wireless broadcom mac macbook-pro
edited Jul 30 '13 at 22:25
BuZZ-dEE
9,315115170
asked Jul 21 '12 at 21:49
Chris DudleyChris Dudley
1112
edited Jul 30 '13 at 22:25
BuZZ-dEE
9,315115170
asked Jul 21 '12 at 21:49
Chris DudleyChris Dudley
1112
edited Jul 30 '13 at 22:25
BuZZ-dEE
9,315115170
edited Jul 30 '13 at 22:25
BuZZ-dEE
9,315115170
edited Jul 30 '13 at 22:25
BuZZ-dEE
9,315115170
9,315115170
asked Jul 21 '12 at 21:49
Chris DudleyChris Dudley
1112
asked Jul 21 '12 at 21:49
Chris DudleyChris Dudley
1112
asked Jul 21 '12 at 21:49
Chris DudleyChris Dudley
1112
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You need to make sure you have the driver which is known to work with macbook pros. Since presumably your laptop is not connected to the internet, first you need to have it temporarily connected to the internet using USB.
If you have a mobile phone which you can use as a "persnoal hotspot" temporarily, then you may connect it to your laptop by USB to get connected to the internet temporarily and in a terminal, type:
sudo apt-get updatesudo apt-get install -y bcmwl-kernel-source
Hopefully this will get your wifi up and running.
edited Jan 26 at 16:58
Pablo Bianchi
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answered Apr 7 '18 at 18:31
Reza RahemiReza Rahemi
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You can install the firmware manually:
wget http://www.lwfinger.com/b43-firmware/broadcom-wl-5.100.138.tar.bz2
tar xf broadcom-wl-5.100.138.tar.bz2
sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter
sudo b43-fwcutter -w "/lib/firmware" broadcom-wl-5.100.138/linux/wl_apsta.o
Note that you should have kernel 3.2 or newer for the above to work. See http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43/ for more details.
In this case you don't need firmware-b43-installer and can safely remove it.
answered Jul 22 '12 at 6:13
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You need to make sure you have the driver which is known to work with macbook pros. Since presumably your laptop is not connected to the internet, first you need to have it temporarily connected to the internet using USB.
If you have a mobile phone which you can use as a "persnoal hotspot" temporarily, then you may connect it to your laptop by USB to get connected to the internet temporarily and in a terminal, type:
sudo apt-get updatesudo apt-get install -y bcmwl-kernel-source
Hopefully this will get your wifi up and running.
edited Jan 26 at 16:58
Pablo Bianchi
2,79821533
answered Apr 7 '18 at 18:31
Reza RahemiReza Rahemi
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You need to make sure you have the driver which is known to work with macbook pros. Since presumably your laptop is not connected to the internet, first you need to have it temporarily connected to the internet using USB.
If you have a mobile phone which you can use as a "persnoal hotspot" temporarily, then you may connect it to your laptop by USB to get connected to the internet temporarily and in a terminal, type:
sudo apt-get updatesudo apt-get install -y bcmwl-kernel-source
Hopefully this will get your wifi up and running.
edited Jan 26 at 16:58
Pablo Bianchi
2,79821533
answered Apr 7 '18 at 18:31
Reza RahemiReza Rahemi
17512
add a comment |
You need to make sure you have the driver which is known to work with macbook pros. Since presumably your laptop is not connected to the internet, first you need to have it temporarily connected to the internet using USB.
If you have a mobile phone which you can use as a "persnoal hotspot" temporarily, then you may connect it to your laptop by USB to get connected to the internet temporarily and in a terminal, type:
sudo apt-get updatesudo apt-get install -y bcmwl-kernel-source
Hopefully this will get your wifi up and running.
edited Jan 26 at 16:58
Pablo Bianchi
2,79821533
answered Apr 7 '18 at 18:31
Reza RahemiReza Rahemi
17512
You need to make sure you have the driver which is known to work with macbook pros. Since presumably your laptop is not connected to the internet, first you need to have it temporarily connected to the internet using USB.
If you have a mobile phone which you can use as a "persnoal hotspot" temporarily, then you may connect it to your laptop by USB to get connected to the internet temporarily and in a terminal, type:
sudo apt-get updatesudo apt-get install -y bcmwl-kernel-source
Hopefully this will get your wifi up and running.
edited Jan 26 at 16:58
Pablo Bianchi
2,79821533
answered Apr 7 '18 at 18:31
Reza RahemiReza Rahemi
17512
edited Jan 26 at 16:58
Pablo Bianchi
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edited Jan 26 at 16:58
Pablo Bianchi
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edited Jan 26 at 16:58
Pablo Bianchi
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answered Apr 7 '18 at 18:31
Reza RahemiReza Rahemi
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answered Apr 7 '18 at 18:31
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You can install the firmware manually:
wget http://www.lwfinger.com/b43-firmware/broadcom-wl-5.100.138.tar.bz2
tar xf broadcom-wl-5.100.138.tar.bz2
sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter
sudo b43-fwcutter -w "/lib/firmware" broadcom-wl-5.100.138/linux/wl_apsta.o
Note that you should have kernel 3.2 or newer for the above to work. See http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43/ for more details.
In this case you don't need firmware-b43-installer and can safely remove it.
answered Jul 22 '12 at 6:13
vitautvitaut
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You can install the firmware manually:
wget http://www.lwfinger.com/b43-firmware/broadcom-wl-5.100.138.tar.bz2
tar xf broadcom-wl-5.100.138.tar.bz2
sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter
sudo b43-fwcutter -w "/lib/firmware" broadcom-wl-5.100.138/linux/wl_apsta.o
Note that you should have kernel 3.2 or newer for the above to work. See http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43/ for more details.
In this case you don't need firmware-b43-installer and can safely remove it.
answered Jul 22 '12 at 6:13
vitautvitaut
3731313
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You can install the firmware manually:
wget http://www.lwfinger.com/b43-firmware/broadcom-wl-5.100.138.tar.bz2
tar xf broadcom-wl-5.100.138.tar.bz2
sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter
sudo b43-fwcutter -w "/lib/firmware" broadcom-wl-5.100.138/linux/wl_apsta.o
Note that you should have kernel 3.2 or newer for the above to work. See http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43/ for more details.
In this case you don't need firmware-b43-installer and can safely remove it.
answered Jul 22 '12 at 6:13
vitautvitaut
3731313
You can install the firmware manually:
wget http://www.lwfinger.com/b43-firmware/broadcom-wl-5.100.138.tar.bz2
tar xf broadcom-wl-5.100.138.tar.bz2
sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter
sudo b43-fwcutter -w "/lib/firmware" broadcom-wl-5.100.138/linux/wl_apsta.o
Note that you should have kernel 3.2 or newer for the above to work. See http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43/ for more details.
In this case you don't need firmware-b43-installer and can safely remove it.
answered Jul 22 '12 at 6:13
vitautvitaut
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answered Jul 22 '12 at 6:13
vitautvitaut
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answered Jul 22 '12 at 6:13
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answered Jul 22 '12 at 6:13
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