New device in MacBook Pro, yet unsupported?

[Rafał Miłecki]

2011/3/27 Christian Schäfer <schaefer at rostlab.org>:
> Hi there,
>
> I've got here a recent 13" MacBook Pro (8,1), running Ubuntu on it (natty).
> The wireless device seems to be currently unsupported by the b43 driver (as
> of kernel 2.6.38). It seems to be a bcm4331, lspci -vn gives the following:
>
> 03:00.0 0280: 14e4:4331 (rev 02)
>    Subsystem: 106b:00d6
>    Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
>    Memory at a0600000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
>    Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
>    Capabilities: [58] Vendor Specific Information: Len=78 <?>
>    Capabilities: [48] 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 83-0e-47-ff-ff-36-e0-f8
>    Capabilities: [16c] Power Budgeting <?>
>
> To my current knowledge, the only way to get it working is by means of
> ndiswrapper. Are there any plans already to get this device supported
> natively? Please let me know if you need further information regarding the
> device.

What about

modprobe b43
dmesg | grep b43
?

This is new card without real entry in pciid, someone just typed some
dumb BCM4331 in http://pci-ids.ucw.cz/read/PC/14e4/4331

-- 
Rafał