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Tinycore 14.0 64bit: Macbook Air Wifi - Broadcom 4360 WLAN - wl not found
pek:
Hi all.. I'm back again with more questions :)
This time, I loaded these to my initial failed attempts to make wifi on a macbook air working.
dbus.tcz
firmware-broadcom_bcm43xx.tcz
wifi.tcz
When i typed iwconfig, no wlan adapter was found.
This is what i get in dmesg that i think related to it
--- Code: ---[ 16.037321] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.3: SMBus using PCI interrupt
[ 16.037555] i2c i2c-0: 2/2 memory slots populated (from DMI)
[ 16.072354] loop30: detected capacity change from 0 to 1528
[ 16.104450] platform regulatory.0: Direct firmware load for regulatory.db failed with error -2
[ 16.104457] platform regulatory.0: Falling back to sysfs fallback for: regulatory.db
[ 16.108967] cfg80211: failed to load regulatory.db
[ 16.159657] b43-phy0: Broadcom 4360 WLAN found (core revision 42)
[ 16.160887] b43-phy0 ERROR: FOUND UNSUPPORTED PHY (Analog 12, Type 11 (AC), Revision 1)
[ 16.160895] b43: probe of bcma0:1 failed with error -95
[ 16.160918] Broadcom 43xx driver loaded [ Features: PNLS ]
--- End code ---
So, I could't make the wifi work.
Then I tried other distro which also failed.
After some random google searching, I found a suggestion that makes wifi works on other distro. By doing this
--- Code: ---$ modprobe -r b43
$ modprobe -r bcma
$ modprobe -r wl
$ modprobe wl
--- End code ---
When I tried to replicate this with Corepure64, I'm stuck at
--- Code: ---$ sudo modprobe wl
--- End code ---
It says wl not found in modules.dep
Here's the lsmod
--- Code: ---Module Size Used by Not tainted
b43 339968 0
mac80211 331776 1 b43
cfg80211 237568 2 b43,mac80211
ssb 40960 1 b43
i2c_i801 20480 0
i2c_smbus 12288 1 i2c_i801
mmc_core 86016 2 b43,ssb
cordic 12288 1 b43
cpufreq_userspace 12288 0
cpufreq_conservative 12288 0
cpufreq_powersave 12288 0
squashfs 36864 31
apple_mfi_fastcharge 12288 0
hid_apple 16384 0
sbs 12288 0
sbshc 12288 1 sbs
mei_hdcp 12288 0
video 45056 0
wmi 16384 1 video
pcspkr 12288 0
xhci_pci 12288 0
xhci_hcd 102400 1 xhci_pci
ac 12288 0
xhci_pci_renesas 12288 1 xhci_pci
apple_bl 12288 0
thunderbolt 143360 0
loop 20480 62
backlight 12288 2 video,apple_bl
mei_me 20480 1
lpc_ich 24576 0
mei 49152 3 mei_hdcp,mei_me
bcma 32768 1 b43
--- End code ---
What should I do from here?
Thank you.
Juanito:
The first thing to check with lsusb or lspci is what hardware you have.
The last time I compiled wl it literally needed 10 patches..
pek:
Hi Juanito,
--- Quote ---The first thing to check with lsusb or lspci is what hardware you have.
--- End quote ---
Actually I loaded all available firmwares/drivers for wifi from Tinycore64 repo.
And when i dmesg, it found this Broadcom 4360 :D
So, I guessed this was correct.
I will run lspci later again though, to do it proper way and educate myself.
I don't think it's related to lsusb, because it's a built in wifi module. But I will also run lsblk out of curiosity.
I'll post back after I get more details of these.
--- Quote ---The last time I compiled wl it literally needed 10 patches..
--- End quote ---
I hope this is not about kernel compiling again :-X
I'm still far out of league about that for now.
Juanito:
Apparently there are two versions of the 4360:
14E4:4360 no linux driver
14E4:43A0 wl driver
Use “lspci -vnn | grep -i net” to find which you have.
pek:
lspci -vnn | grep -i net gave me
--- Code: ---03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Limited BCM4360 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter [14e4:43a0] (rev 03)
--- End code ---
so, it's wl then.. :-[
So, do i have to recompile kernel for this?
or
Is there a way to make a tcz for this? (I prefer this if possible though)
And.. btw
--- Quote ---14E4:4360 no linux driver
14E4:43A0 wl driver
--- End quote ---
How did you figured out one is "no linux driver" and the other is "wl" just by looking at those numbers? :o
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