Ok, I updated to 17.10 and my wireless driver no longer works. I guess I should not be surprised since I know that these old macbooks use a broadcom wireless adapter the drivers for which are sometimes not easily found. ifconfig
does not see the wireless adapter at all, but lshw -C Network
actually seems to see it just fine but lists it as UNCLAIMED
. I tried following this but I'm not able to find any linux-backports
packages at all.
lsmod | grep wl
returns nothing. grep ssb /etc/modprobe.d/*
returns
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-bcm43.conf:blacklist ssb
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf:# replaced by b43 and ssb.
(this is what I get after fixing the problem with
/etc/modprobe.d/broadcom-sta-common.conf:# wl module from Broadcom conflicts with ssb
/etc/modprobe.d/broadcom-sta-common.conf:blacklist ssb
modprobe
)
Does anyone know where I can get this driver for the kernel in Ubuntu 17.10?
sudo modprobe b43
and thensudo rfkill unblock all
does fix the problem... but weirdly I have to do this every time I reboot. Anyone know how I can make this solution permanent?lsmod | grep wl; grep ssb /etc/modprobe.d/*