On Thu, Jul 06, 2017 at 10:54:07AM -0700, Andrew Dance wrote: > Hi all! > > I've been tinkering with LFS on my Macbook Pro Retina and have managed to > get it booted up. However, I'm having trouble getting my wifi card to work. > > It's a Broadcom bcm4360. There are 2 flavors, evidently. Standard b43 > drivers don't work on mine, so I have to use something called 'wl'. > > On my Ubuntu installation, I did... > > *apt-get install bcmwl-kernel-source* > > and then followed with.. > > *modprobe wl* > > This worked great for Ubuntu. > > Questions is; how do I replicate this process in LFS without a package > manager like 'dpkg' > > I tried unpacking the debian package but could make any sense of it. > > Many thanks in advance. > > Andrew
Perhaps the suggestions at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/broadcom_wireless have something to help (in particular, not building the upstream b43 drivers, or unloading them, if they really don't work). There seem to be a lot of reports of failure with the upstream drivers for broadcom on macs, so I assume that loading the required firmware would probably be a waste of your time and you probably do need the nonfree drivers from broadcom (linked from that wiki page). An out-of-tree module needs to be compiled against the kernel on which you wish to use it. If you google for the Arch package source files it should give some indication of how to compile it. It seems that apple do their best to keep everybody within their walled garden. ĸen -- I live in a city. I know sparrows from starlings. After that everything is a duck as far as I'm concerned. -- Monstrous Regiment -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this list. A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
