2013 MacBook Air Project

[Jason Birch]

On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 4:16 AM, Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:

> did you contribute this stuff back up to the linux driver?
>

I did not; I was simply following a few how-tos on a colleague's machine to
help her get a stable network connection. We never did fully crack that
nut; I quickly realised how far out of my depth I was :)

On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Lundberg, Johannes <
johannes at brilliantservice.co.jp> wrote:

> This is the info OSX gives me about the 11" 2013 MacBook Air.
>

After a little bit of Googling, it looks like the chip inside the mid-2013
MacBook Air is the Broadcom BCM4360 (Not the 4331 I've played with) which
is currently _not_ supported[1] by the legacy b43 Linux driver.
Additionally, it doesn't seem to be listed in the list of supported devices
of Broadcom's official open-source Linux drivers[2].

Broadcom's website seems a little helpful - they offer you the ability to
submit a request for driver help - but not for this model of chip. I think
your best bet will be to work from the sources of the bcmwl driver[3] -
which /might/ be related to the brcm80211 stuff? I've not dug any further.

[1] http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#Supported_devices
[2] http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/brcm80211#Supported_Chips
[3] https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bcmwl

JB