MacBook Pro (5,1) wireless card is not recognized? Also will not restart properly.

WazzuCoug · #1 9th April 2009, 04:51 AM

Right now I am triple booting the macbook pro I just purchased using rEFIt (Vista, OSX, and Fedora 10). I cannot get my wireless card to be recognized however. I have installed the broadcom-wl driver through the RMPFusion repo and it still will not work. Here is the output from lspci:

Code:

[username@localhost ~]$ lspci | grep Broadcom -i
04:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4322 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller (rev 01)

and dmesg:

Code:

[username@localhost ~]$ dmesg |grep 04:00.0 -i
PCI: 0000:04:00.0 reg 10 64bit mmio: [df200000, df203fff]
pci 0000:04:00.0: supports D1
pci 0000:04:00.0: supports D2
pci 0000:04:00.0: PME# supported from D0 D3hot D3cold
pci 0000:04:00.0: PME# disabled
pci 0000:04:00.0: restoring config space at offset 0xf (was 0x100, writing 0x10a)
pci 0000:04:00.0: restoring config space at offset 0x4 (was 0x4, writing 0xdf200004)
pci 0000:04:00.0: restoring config space at offset 0x3 (was 0x0, writing 0x40)
pci 0000:04:00.0: restoring config space at offset 0x1 (was 0x100000, writing 0x100006)

and ifconfig (to show there is no eth1/wireless card recognized:

Code:

[username@localhost ~]$ ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:25:00:A3:76:02  
          inet addr:192.168.1.35  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::225:ff:fea3:7602/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:5976 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:5249 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:5843585 (5.5 MiB)  TX bytes:724667 (707.6 KiB)
          Interrupt:22 Base address:0xa000 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:800 (800.0 b)  TX bytes:800 (800.0 b)

Is there another step to activating the broadcom driver I am unaware of? I have restarted and the akmod-wl was rebuilt to match the kernel. Not sure where to go from here.

Thanks.

Also, this might be because of the triple boot setup or something, but when I restart it will get all the way until it says "machine restart" and then it just sits there until I hold the power button down. Any ideas? Normal shutdown works fine. No problems with either shutdown or restart in Vista or OSX.

WazzuCoug · #2 9th April 2009, 05:21 AM

Ok, I don't know what happened, but I restarted yet again and the magic happened. It restarted fine without hanging on "machine restart" and the wireless card started working.

So, all is great!