After a clean install and installing the various packages one by one I found that it has nothing to do with depmod apparently. I just happen to always install fglrx along with kernel restricted modules. All that it is is that the restricted modules are needed in order for the wireless networking to work.
So to get wireless networking working on this machine it was a simple: sudo apt-get install linux-generic which brings in all the linux-restricted-modules-generic stuff. We should probably change the bug description to reflect this. linux-restricted-modules-generic required for wireless networking on MacBook Pro. -- wireless card not detected/enable by default on MacBook Pro https://launchpad.net/bugs/87249 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
