Re: Macbook pro 7,1

Pogprogrammer <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.infradead.lists.b43-dev,org.kernel.vger.linux-wireless
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Oh I'm sorry, I tried both modules. They both had a similar output and so I forgot to switch back to the open source driver. I'll follow back up in a bit but the outputs were very similar.

On April 26, 2023 8:59:42 PM UTC, Larry Finger <[email protected]> wrote:
>On 4/25/23 19:47, Pogprogrammer wrote:
>> [   17.153826] wl: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel.
>> [   17.153837] wl: module license 'MIXED/Proprietary' taints kernel.
>> [   17.153838] Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
>> [   17.164164] wl: module verification failed: signature and/or required key missing - tainting kernel
>> [   17.215776] wlan0: Broadcom BCM432b 802.11 Hybrid Wireless Controller 6.30.223.271 (r587334)
>> 
>
>I was hoping that the log stuff would not do to all the members on the Linux wireless mailing list, but at least the log was not too large.
>
>In the section quoted above, it tells us that you are using wl - the proprietary driver from Broadcom. As that is distributed as pre-compiled binary without source code, there is nothing that we can do to help you. As you wrote on the b43 ML, I expected that you were using b43.
>
>Sorry, but you are on your own. I do not expect that Broadcom would provide help for this legacy product. If you had any other brand, I would suggest that you change the wifi chip. On a Mac, that is not an option. You might try getting a USB dongle, but that can be tricky to get one with a Linux driver.
>
>Larry
>

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