[SOLVED]Trying to use WIFI on my old Macbok Pro

[Charlie Brown]

So, we can eliminate that :)

[PhantomTramp]

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Device-2: Broadcom BCM43224 802.11a/b/g/n vendor: Apple AirPort Extreme driver: wl v: kernel
    modules: bcma pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 14e4:4353
    class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>

I have a MacBook 6,1 that works. He has BCM43222 and the kernel module looks different.

I have b43, b43 legacy and a host of other drivers blocked by default in MX Network Assistant..

The Tramp

[BitterTruth]

What does these show:

ip link

cat /etc/network/interfaces

[Charlie Brown]

...
I have b43, b43 legacy and a host of other drivers blocked by default...

Yep, by default wl is enabled and /etc/modprobe.d/broadcom-sta-dkms.conf looks like this:

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# wl module from Broadcom conflicts with the following modules:
blacklist b43
blacklist b43legacy
blacklist b44
blacklist bcma
blacklist brcm80211
blacklist brcmsmac
blacklist ssb

[Charlie Brown]

... @Griffy

on yours it shows:

driver: wl ... modules: ssb

is ssb not blacklisted as above? (if so, you can either edit the file to look like the above, or use the MXNA to do that)

[Griffy]

ip link

1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
link/ether 00:23:df:9e:cf:74 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
3: wlan0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state DORMANT mode DORMANT group default qlen 1000
link/ether 00:23:6c:97:a5:05 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

cat /etc/network/interfaces
# interfaces(5) file used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8)

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface

[BitterTruth]

The dormant state is like a power saving state. Let's see if we can set it to the default state:

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sudo ip link set wlan0 mode default

[Griffy]

Didn't appear to do anything.

[BitterTruth]

Now do:
sudo ip link set wlan0 up

and then post the output from ip link again

[Griffy]

ip link
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
link/ether 00:23:df:9e:cf:74 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
3: wlan0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state DORMANT mode DORMANT group default qlen 1000
link/ether 00:23:6c:97:a5:05 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff