Comment 9 for bug 912941

Hi Jose Manuel

Your laptop should be 8.2 (x.3 are 17" models).

I packaged wireless module for Ubuntu 11.10 only. So, try that stable
version

Remember to carry on installation in bios mode, not EFI

Marco
Il giorno 17/mar/2012 09:10, "josemanuel" <email address hidden> ha
scritto:

> Dear Marco, after many trials I am not able to apply your solution. I
> have a macbook pro 15'' of December 2011 (8.2? 8.3?). I feel
> absolutely frustrated with the broadcom 4331. After several re-
> installations of ubuntu 12.04 alpha, beta, I just got working
> (miraculously) the wireless after some patching + update, but it messed
> up afterwards and I had to reinstall from scratch. No more luck
> afterwards.
>
>
> I see linux-backports-modules-cw-3.2-3.0.0-14-generic in one of your
> subdirectories but I dont know how to load it ( when I try "sudo apt-get
> install linux-backports-modules-cw-3.2-3.0.0-14-generic" it isn't found)
>
> I would extramely appreciate any help.
>
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> Title:
> Broadcom 4331 is not supported
>
> Status in “b43-fwcutter” package in Ubuntu:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> MacBookPro 8.x (late 2011) have BC 4331 which is supported by latest
> firmware by Broadcom, but not properly managed by current version of
> the firmware-b43-installer.
>
> I managed to get it working using the latest driver 5.100.138 and
> fixing postinst script for firmware-b43-installer
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