Comments on: How To Enable Wireless Networking on the Macbook : Ubuntu 7.10

By: Gray

Gray — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 05:30:26 +0000

You’re a God.
I love you so much.

You need to update the links though :X
Had to do a bit of researching

By: Joe

Joe — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 08:16:02 +0000

thanks a lot, it works like a charm

By: Rick Bodey

Rick Bodey — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 03:14:32 +0000

Thanks so much works so great!!! Perfect.

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 03:04:05 +0000

I’m running Ubuntu on my Intel MacBook using the virtualization software Parallels. I couldn’t get the wireless to work in Ubuntu, so I changed the settings in Parallels to use the AirPort’s wireless signal for the internet while virtualizing. In Ubuntu it says I have a wired connection but it is actually using the AirPort connection. Hope this helps you.

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:25:42 +0000

When I entered the commands after “make install,” I got nothing. Terminal just jumped to the next line without doing anything. “make install” worked just fine, but after that it seems that the other commands aren’t doing anything.

I’m running the second-gen Intel MacBook with Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04.

By: techiehenry

techiehenry — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 09:18:04 +0000

I was able to install Ubuntu Hardy just a while ago on my MacBook.

Followed your instructions on how to enable the wi-fi adapter, and now I can surf wirelessly.

Thanks!

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:35:42 +0000

Thank you. It worked perfectly.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 18:49:29 +0000

Jared,
I’m not certain how these things work with Mac, but it’s not uncommon for hardware manufacturers to quietly change chips on you. As far as Santa Rosa goes, the “official” Intel Santa Rosa chipset includes (no surprises) the Intel Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN. The wireless card however is a common deviation from the Intel mainline since it can be easily switched via the MiniPCIe slot (probably under your keyboard).

The problem with the madwifi drivers is that they only support the Atheros AR5418 chipset in the highly unstable development snapshot that must be installed as outlined above and is plagued also with the above problems in addition to not supporting 11n mode.

You’re not going to see AR5418 support in Ubuntu until madwifi officially releases it. That however is unlikely to happen any time soon as madwifi development has shifted over to the ath5k drivers which are all open source (rather than hal based). Basically someone has to hack the AR5418 to see what makes it tick and Atheros are not going to be of any help. If you have Santa Rosa, it might be worth investigating an upgrade to the Intel chip which is natively supported in the kernel.

As for a less drastic solution than reboot to the flaky wireless, you could try just putting the computer to sleep and then waking it up. Depending on your platform, this should look pretty much like a reboot to your wireless card.

Also, if you’re using a 32 bit kernel, I highly recommend using ndiswrapper with the windows driver that can be found on the Lenovo website listed below.

Here’s the Thinkwiki article for the wireless card in Thinkpads that uses the same chip: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkPad_11a/b/g/n_Wireless_LAN_Mini_Express_Adapter.

By: Jared

Jared — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 06:01:03 +0000

Umm.. I was told that I have the Santa Rosa… I guess whoever told me that was wrong, because that link says the Santa Rosa has a broadcom card. I have an atheros card and use madwifi.
lspci returns:
0b:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5418 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)
I got this new laptop a little over a week ago, so it’s whatever the newest one is called.. I guess that’s not Santa Rosa..?

By: Christer Edwards

Christer Edwards — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 05:29:30 +0000

For those of you using the new Santa Rosa chipset I would suggest reading the instructions here:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBook_Santa_Rosa