Turn wifi on for a mac book pro how to#
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Turn wifi on for a mac book pro pro#
Turn wifi on for a mac book pro Pc#

Neither of our Apple 'super drives' (hows THAT for cynical branding, btw?) work reliably (i.e.

Turn wifi on for a mac book pro Pc#

(fwiw, non-tech me had ZERO problems setting it up as a dual-boot in the PC / Windows environment on a Dell I'd had at the time, although that ease probably had a lot to do with having had a cooperative CD burner at the time).Īgain - I am not a super tech-savvy guy. I'd tried it several years ago and really liked it. I was determined to return it to a state of usefulness. It's still a super beefy rig (4g dual core half gig storage - very well suited for creative content production), excepting of course for the Cupertino Colossus' insistence upon abandoning their own still-working hardware.

Turn wifi on for a mac book pro pro#

Inherited my mom's mid-2009 15' MB Pro when she passed a few years ago. I created a GitHub account just now for the express purpose of returning here to say: holy crap, it worked! thankyouthankyouthankyou

Remove webfs and the temp dir by typing sudo apt-get remove -y webfs and sudo rm -rf /var/www/b43-firmware/ on your Ubuntu/Linux machine afterwards.

See for other instructions, such as enabling Sensors.

Run sudo reboot and then check if you can connect to Wi-Fi.

Run the command echo 'SUSPEND_MODULES='b43 bcma'' | sudo tee -append /etc/pm/config.d/modules.

Run the command echo 'blacklist ndiswrapper' | sudo tee -append /etc/modprobe.d/nf.

Run the command sudo dpkg -i ~/Desktop/b ( replace b with the firmware-b43-installer deb file name).

Run the command sudo dpkg -i ~/Desktop/b ( replace b with the b43-fwcutter deb file name).

Restart the web server sudo /etc/init.d/webfs restart (you may need to use sudo systemctl restart webfs if your system uses systemd).

Run the command sudo sed -i -e 's/web_port=''/web_port='80'/' /etc/nf.

Run the command sudo sed -i -e 's/web_root='/var/www/html'/web_root='/var/www'/' /etc/nf.

Run the command sudo mv ~/Desktop/.bz2 /var/www/b43-firmware/.

Run the command sudo mkdir -p /var/www/b43-firmware.

Run the command sudo dpkg -i ~/Desktop/b ( replace b with the webfs deb file name).

Open a terminal and run the command echo '127.0.0.1 | sudo tee -append /etc/hosts.

Copy the files from the flash storage to your Ubuntu/Linux machine's desktop.

Save these downloaded files to flash storage and then insert flash storage into your Ubuntu/Linux machine.

Download webfs (repeat same note as above).

Download firmware-b43-installer (repeat same note as above).

Download b43-fwcutter ( replace 'sid' in the URL as needed - scroll down to 'Download' section and choose based off your architecture, and then select a mirror/FTP link to download from on the next page that appears).

If you're using jessie for example, then replace all sid with jessie in the links below. To find which version you should use, you can view the chart at. In the instructions below, you will need to replace sid in the download URL's with the proper version of Debian your version of Ubuntu/Linux is using.

Turn wifi on for a mac book pro install#

Most instructions online (such as this one from the official Ubuntu docs ) suggest to use sudo apt-get and install these packages from the PPA.īUT you don't have Internet so you can't use apt-get! Instead you can use a different computer to download the packages, then transfer them over.

Turn wifi on for a mac book pro how to#

How to Enable Wi-Fi on MacBook, Mac Mini, MacBook Air for Ubuntu/Linux OSīy default older Mac computer models have driver issues with the Broadcom Wi-Fi chip.