I’ve been running a Manjaro partition for quite awhile in my '12 desktop with ethernet connection, more or less w/o issue. Today I ran a fresh install of Manjaro using ethernet on my '09 Mac Book Pro and it went quickly and system booted up.
After rebooting and upgrading I find no place in Network Manager to “enable wifi”?? I looked at a few threads and saw one where “b43” was mentioned. I checked “lsmod” and I see it mentioned in a few places, but when I disconnected ethernet, wifi doesn’t take over??
What else would I need, or need to do to get wifi enabled??
Other concurrent issue, compared to the Leap 15.5 install I had in the machine before this new install, Manjaro seems to have the fan blowing rather loudly?? I know historically some linux distros don’t seem to do Mac temperature control too well, but I’d like the machine to be quieter on the use of fan, if possible??? Anything to adjust to get that to happen??
It’s probably the open source nouveau driver if it’s the nvidia mbp. What desktop are you using? Avoid gnome, kde and cinnamon, install xfce or mate. Stay with 5.4 and 5.10 LTS kernels.
Sorry, didn’t get an email notification on replies, so thanks for the data about “wl” . . . and glad to hear someone else is still running an 09 MBP . . . actually a very nice machine, especially with an Samsung EVO SSD and . . . Crucial RAM.
Stuff to do this morning, but I’ll check into it in a day or so . . . precerate it.
The linked instructions you provided seemed to be promising, ran through some of the commands, but it gets murky around here:
But that's not all. We need to add a module loading option under /etc/modprobe.d. This is similar to what we did with the Realtek Wireless card to make it work on older 3.X kernels. You need to create a configuration file with the following format: "module name".conf. In this case, b43.conf. Inside this file, we need the allhwsupport option:
options b43 allhwsupport=1
I tried to nano into the /etc/modprobe.d . . . but they dont show how to add the “b43.conf” name/title . . . and where to add in the “options b43 allsupport=1” data. When I nano’d into /etc/modprobe.d it shows in red letters, “this is a directory” and it shows something like “new buffer” . . . so what is the “new buffer”??? I can follow detailed instructions, but when it goes, “like we did it with the Realtek situation” . . . I get lost asap.
sudo modprobe -r wl
[sudo] password for n:
modprobe: FATAL: Module wl not found.
[n-macbookpro54 ~]$ sudo modprobe b43
[n-macbookpro54 ~]$ sudo modprobe b43 allhwsupport=1
[n-macbookpro54 ~]$ sudo nano /etc/modules-load.d/modules.conf
[n-macbookpro54 ~]$ sudo cat /etc/modprobe.d/b43.conf
cat: /etc/modprobe.d/b43.conf: No such file or directory
[n-macbookpro54 ~]$ sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d
[n-macbookpro54 ~]$ sudo cat /etc/modprobe.d
cat: /etc/modprobe.d: Is a directory
[n-macbookpro54 ~]$ sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d
This is a MATE DE install . . . haven’t messed with the kernels.
OK, well, that is what I am asking, how is that being “created”??? I see that I would be “naming” it something “b43.conf” and I would be adding that “options” into it.
I can do nanoing into a file and edit what is there, but the “creating” is escaping my mind or memory right now, old guy syndrome . . . I can’t remember if I know or ever knew, or never knew. Hence the request for help on it.
Do it in the caja file browser. Right click on the etc/modprobe.d directory, pick ‘open as administrator’. Do a right click in the new ‘modprobe.d (as superuser)’ window, pick ‘create Document’ >> ‘Empy File’, name it ‘b43.conf’, copy the line options b43 allhwsupport=1
in it and ‘Save’.
Thanks for that, I got as far as right-click in caja, but I didn’t have the option of “open as administrator” . . . . I just have “open” and when I right-click in that window “create Document” is greyed out, no “empty file” option . . . . I had “open in terminal” but is that what you mean??