Its a proprietary driver problem. MacBooks sometimes use a Broadcom card that requires firmware to be installed. Ubuntu must include it, but Puredyne doesn't since it is non-free.
try lspci | grep broadcom or just lspci and see what kind of wireless card you have. if broadcom then: I haven't done this in a while, and it is still a bit confusing. There are some broadcom related packages you can find if you add contrib and non-free to your /etc/apt/sources list. In debian, I was able to just install the package which takes care of all the steps of downloading the source, building the modules and installing them. If that doesn't work for you, try getting the source from broadcom and installing it manually. http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php see what you can figure out. If its not broadcom, then its probably some other proprietary card that needs a non-free driver. -grant On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Clifford Dunn <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! > > Very new to Puredyne, but somewhat familiar with Ubuntu but still > pretty new with Linux in general. > > I decided I like the way Puredyne works enough to install it on my > MacBook as a dual boot. So far, it works, but I haven't been able to > use my wifi. With Ubuntu, it works right out of the box....Google > seems to be leading me down paths that seem rather complicated. I'm > willing to follow complicated paths, but am I the only person using a > MacBook with this problem? > > Thanks! > Clifford Dunn > Flutist/Composer > http://www.clifforddunnmusic.com > http://www.myspace.com/clifforddunn > http://www.youtube.com/user/beatleboy07 > --- > [email protected] > http://identi.ca/group/puredyne > irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne >
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