No wireless on Macbook Pro 17"

[Aternian]

Was really hoping this would be fixed with the BT3 Final release (or its already working and Im just retarded).

Ive got the most recent Macbook Pro (Late Feb 08) release...17" model (custom built...shouldnt make a difference though)

Ive had no luck using this with BT3...it just plain doesnt see the wireless device if I run iwconfig

Now, Im fairly new to linux....well...Ive been using it for years...just never in the console - just basic use...mainly to run graphics programs.

The wireless card (as described by System info under OSX) is:

Wireless Card Type: Airport Extreme (0x14E4, 0x8C)
Wireless Card Firmware Version: Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (4.170.46.7)

So...any advice on how I can get this working?

[Aternian]

....Anybody?

surely someone else in here has the same machine I do =\

[Barry]

....Anybody?

surely someone else in here has the same machine I do =\

Most people wouldn't waste their money on a 17" MacBookPro(or Air). Unfortunately Mac folks are a minority. Mac folks using BackTrack are even more scarce. I'd check around on other linux forums to see if they got the wireless card working. You're most likely only going to get it to work with a ndis driver, which is useless for anything but web browsing with BackTrack.

[Aternian]

Guess Im buying an EEE-PC again then

Bugger

Ah well, cheers.

[Aidan]

Most people wouldn't waste their money on a 17" MacBookPro(or Air). Unfortunately Mac folks are a minority. Mac folks using BackTrack are even more scarce. I'd check around on other linux forums to see if they got the wireless card working. You're most likely only going to get it to work with a ndis driver, which is useless for anything but web browsing with BackTrack.

Hey I have 2 17" macbook pros and they both tripple boot, and know plenty of people with macbooks running linux, myself included.

Mine both have ar5008 atheros cards, which work great.

For the broadcom driver, you're probably going to need to update the kernel to ~2.6.23 or higher, so that you can install the compat-wireless wireless drive modules. If you use a kernel before 2.6.26, make sure to get compat-wireless-old, if you use an up to date kernel then the regular one is for you. Look for the subversion snapshots.

Hope that helps!

[hatake_kakashi]

Was really hoping this would be fixed with the BT3 Final release (or its already working and Im just retarded).

Ive got the most recent Macbook Pro (Late Feb 08) release...17" model (custom built...shouldnt make a difference though)

Ive had no luck using this with BT3...it just plain doesnt see the wireless device if I run iwconfig

Now, Im fairly new to linux....well...Ive been using it for years...just never in the console - just basic use...mainly to run graphics programs.

The wireless card (as described by System info under OSX) is:

Wireless Card Type: Airport Extreme (0x14E4, 0x8C)
Wireless Card Firmware Version: Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (4.170.46.7)

So...any advice on how I can get this working?

That isn't useful at all, broadcom produces many bcm43xx devices so you have to boot up linux and paste a proper lspci output.