Thanks Grant! Following these links helped immensely. I'm now running off my wireless card. So far, PureDyne is everything I've been wanting in an OS. I'm going to keep playing and see if I can get all the programs working to my liking.
Clifford Dunn Flutist/Composer http://www.clifforddunnmusic.com http://www.myspace.com/clifforddunn http://www.youtube.com/user/beatleboy07 On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 10:41 AM, grant centauri <gcenta...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 <beatlebo...@gmail.com> 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 >> --- >> Puredyne@goto10.org >> http://identi.ca/group/puredyne >> irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne > > > --- > Puredyne@goto10.org > http://identi.ca/group/puredyne > irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne > --- Puredyne@goto10.org http://identi.ca/group/puredyne irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne
