b43 and late 2008 model Apple MacBook

[Stuart Longland]

On 06/05/11 10:08, Stuart Longland wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've been battling the wireless card in this late-2008 model MacBook
> which dual-boots Mac OS X (which works fine on wireless) and Gentoo
> Linux, which has been giving me no end of grief.

Apologies, should have mentioned the lspci output:
> 03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4322 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller (rev 01)
>         Subsystem: Apple Computer Inc. Device 008d
>         Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 23
>         Memory at 93100000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
>         Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
>         Capabilities: [58] Vendor Specific Information: Len=78 <?>
>         Capabilities: [e8] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
>         Capabilities: [d0] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
>         Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
>         Capabilities: [13c] Virtual Channel
>         Capabilities: [160] Device Serial Number b6-b7-6c-ff-ff-83-00-23
>         Capabilities: [16c] Power Budgeting <?>
>         Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge
Regards,
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