I will watch it, if it crashes I'll report.
Also, BCM4360 *was* listed down at the end (4360 Dualband 0x14e4Đx43a0), so lets keep our toezies crossed that this newest attempt at a driver works for Mint 17. The newest package off of Broadcom's page (above) supports up to 3.11.x. The one in Mint's Driver Manager supports up to 3.8 but we're all running Rebooted, logged in.took a few seconds to connect, but I'm up. I went to: and downloaded, compiled and installed their latest and greatest wl.ko. As far as blacklisting: b43 had its own, personal blacklist file obviously the great minds don't want us using it. Oddly enough, b43 wasn't listed in the "lsmod", but wl was. Would it do any good to try the card under Mint Debian, instead of Qiana? Would it do any good to compile the beast myself? I'm guessing not. Would using ndiswrapper work? Don't know much about it other than the descript never used it before and I believe it isn't supported any more? But worth a shot? Snd 69238 21 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hwdep,snd_timer,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_pcm,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_seq_device,snd_seq_midi Snd_seq 61560 2 snd_seq_midi_event,snd_seq_midi Snd_page_alloc 18710 2 snd_pcm,snd_hda_intel Snd_pcm 102099 3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel Snd_hda_codec 192906 3 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel For those interested in battery life and other non-graphics tests, that will come in another article now that the 2013 MacBook Air Linux issues are resolved.Code: Select all ~ $ lspci -vvnn |grep 14e4Ġ2:00.0 Network controller : Broadcom Corporation BCM4360 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter (rev ~ $ lsmod
Besides testing Xubuntu 14.04 in its stock configuration of Mesa 10.1 with the Linux 3.13 kernel, I also did a second run when upgrading to the Linux 3.14 Git kernel and Mesa 10.2-devel code to see the very latest Intel Linux graphics driver for this HD Graphics 5000 GPU.
In this article I have some OpenGL gaming benchmarks to share between OS X 10.9.2 and Xubuntu 14.04. When booted into (X)Ubuntu 14.04, no other pressing issues were encountered after overcoming the Broadcom BCM4360 802.11ac WiFi and Apple boot issue! This is much better than last year when kernel panics and other graphics-related problems were present, etc. Once this UEFI boot manager was installed, at boot time it was easy to select between booting OS X or Ubuntu Linux. Fortunately, that issue was easily corrected by installing rEFInd.
There were no other immediate issues and I was moving on to installing the Xfce version of the Ubuntu "Trusty Tahr" on this Apple hardware.Īfter the install and rebooting, the system continued to boot into OS X and when forcing the boot mode at start-up, the Ubuntu partition wasn't to be seen. As soon as that was installed, the wireless network was working flawlessly, while until then I was using a USB wired network adapter due to the MacBook Air's lack of Ethernet. Fortunately, it's an easily correctable problem (both last year and now) by installing the bcmwl-kernel-source package from the Ubuntu archive. The problem comes down to the firmware for the BCM4360 not being present on the Ubuntu image.
The first problem run into though was the Broadcom 802.11ac WiFi adapter not working. When booting Xubuntu 14.04 LTS off USB, the system quickly booted and the Xfce session started up straight away without running into any problems using the Haswell HD Graphics 5000. When trying out Ubuntu 14.04 LTS last week on the same hardware, the experience went much better. Last year in trying out Ubuntu on the MacBook Air shortly after it was released, the WiFi didn't work, there were frequent graphics issues with the HD Graphics 5000 adapter, and other problems.
Not only is Ubuntu Linux now running on the MacBook Air without show-stopping issues, but its OpenGL performance can even beat Mac OS X 10.9.2. While last year I wrote how running Ubuntu is messy on the 2013 MacBook Air, when trying out Ubuntu 14.04 LTS on the Intel Haswell-based MacBook Air with HD Graphics 5000, it's a very different story.