Macbook pro mid 2010 wifi driver download ubuntu

I am the proud owner of a Macbook Pro 17' from mid but installing Linux on an Apple can be a daunting task. After lending my laptop out for a year or so, I just got it back yesterday and had to go through the painful experience of installing Linux on it again. In this post I am going to share my experiences, and the ultimate guide to installing Linux on your MacBookPro6,1 yourself. Actually, installing linux on it works just fine, but you end up with the open source video drivers that are a bit clunky and tend to crash your system now and then.

If you are like me and want to squeeze every last bit out of your PC, you choose to install the proprietary NVIDIA driver for the GT M card, but upon restart you find yourself facing a black screen. What you see is X crashing, crashing hard that is. Whatever the case, the only solution that works is to use a hybrid MBR and syslinux!

This strategy has worked wonderfully for me for many years, but since Ubuntu After having made the Hybrid MBR and installing and configuring syslinux I got greeted with the message "boot error" so I went on the internet and found that other people were having the same problem, saying that syslinux v6.

The solution? Since I have been spelunking in my system for a whole night not the first time and handcrafting the syslinux.

Hopefully, you have enough luggage to start the journey with confidence if you print out this blog post. Guides on how to backup your files, or create a ubuntu installer are all over the internet and I feel confident that you will be able to figure that out by yourself.

Tried every guide in this forum Ask Question. Asked 4 years, 9 months ago. Active 4 years, 8 months ago. Viewed 3k times. I recently clean installed LXLE Followed the: sudo modprobe -r b43 sudo modprobe b43 sudo rfkill unblock all commands.

I blacklisted everything that has to do with bcm43 in blacklist. I'm using my smartphone USB tethering option to share internet to my laptop. Improve this question. Community Bot 1. Vasilis Stergiou Vasilis Stergiou 11 1 1 silver badge 5 5 bronze badges. Please edit your question and add output of lspci -knn grep Net -A3 terminal command. Done Pilot6 Thank you very much — Vasilis Stergiou. Welcome to AskUbuntu! Could you please run the network diagnostics when your wireless card fails and edit your question to include a link to the result?

I know it may seem a bit overwhelming for a novice but your info so far is a bit vague and the diagnostics will likely cover all options that may cause your issue.

This guide is about wifi and graphics card drives for Ubuntu on Macbook Pro mid similar devices might have a similar solution. This guide is not about how to install ubuntu. OS: Ubuntu Installing the default drivers would result in a non working WIFI and a black screen. But these steps should work for most people out there. Ubuntu, or Lubuntu, seems to be missing drivers for the Broadcom network hardware installed on a Macbook — which leads to the problem of no WiFi.

You need to get the drivers appropriate for your device. WiFi is obviously not working on this device yet, but if you have any other means of obtaining connectivity on this Macbook, then that simplies things a lot. Just type the following commands:.

It may or may not work for some systems. I found firmware-binstaller to be more reliable.