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I have a MacBookPro8,2 (15-inch, Early 2011) and have installed Ubuntu using wubi on the windows partition. I could never get the b43 wifi chip to work reliably and I ended up buying a belkin usb wifi F9L1001v1 which has a realtek chip with r8712u module. Life is way better but still connecting to wifi hotspot is so random and fail many times. It works at home.

I have no idea why and do not have the skills to debug it. ro

1> Why the dongle work at home by have trouble connecting to some hotspots?

2> Has anybody been able to get the b43 work RELIABLY on this mac? Here is the lspci output

03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4331 802.11a/b/g/n [14e4:4331] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Apple Inc. AirPort Extreme [106b:00d6]
Flags: fast devsel, IRQ 17
Memory at b0600000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [58] Vendor Specific Information: Len=78 <?>
Capabilities: [48] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
Capabilities: [d0] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
Capabilities: [13c] Virtual Channel
Capabilities: [160] Device Serial Number 27-b8-8f-ff-ff-08-e4-ce
Capabilities: [16c] Power Budgeting <?>
Kernel modules: bcma

Here is the kernel info

Linux ubuntu 3.8.0-44-generic #66~precise1-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jul 15 04:01:04 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

This is the instruction that I have followed.

http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43

3> I want to get a new laptop/mac but I hate the fact that I also need a dongle to use my Mac and with this horrible wifi experience makes me wonder if I should ignore apple if I want to use ubuntu only?

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