Comment 28 for bug 343556

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joseche (joseche) wrote : Re: [Bug 343556] Re: MacBook rev3, rev4: Wireless works in 8.10 but not in Jaunty

Thanks Dave, that worked !

Just a note: update-initramfs updates the initrd for the first kernel
version it finds, not for the one are using.
I had to put it manually.

Tnx

2009/5/3 Dave Vasilevsky <email address hidden>

> As Lubomir mentions, this is the (well known?) problem of ssb
> interfering with wl. You should be able to just "rmmod wl ssb; modprobe
> wl" and wireless will work.
>
> To fix this more permanently, create a file /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-
> wl.conf containing the line "blacklist ssb". Then run "update-initramfs
> -u" so the initrd knows about the blacklist, and ssb will go away.
>
>
> As I mentioned in #367601, it would be great if either
> * ssb could be stopped from tryin load for the BCM4328, or
> * jockey could be told how to unload ssb so wl will work
>
> --
> MacBook rev3, rev4: Wireless works in 8.10 but not in Jaunty
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/343556
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