Macbook pro 7,1

[Pogprogrammer]

Oh I'm sorry, I tried both modules. They both had a similar output and so I forgot to switch back to the open source driver. I'll follow back up in a bit but the outputs were very similar.

On April 26, 2023 8:59:42 PM UTC, Larry Finger <Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net> wrote:
>On 4/25/23 19:47, Pogprogrammer wrote:
>> [   17.153826] wl: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel.
>> [   17.153837] wl: module license 'MIXED/Proprietary' taints kernel.
>> [   17.153838] Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
>> [   17.164164] wl: module verification failed: signature and/or required key missing - tainting kernel
>> [   17.215776] wlan0: Broadcom BCM432b 802.11 Hybrid Wireless Controller 6.30.223.271 (r587334)
>> 
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>I was hoping that the log stuff would not do to all the members on the Linux wireless mailing list, but at least the log was not too large.
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>In the section quoted above, it tells us that you are using wl - the proprietary driver from Broadcom. As that is distributed as pre-compiled binary without source code, there is nothing that we can do to help you. As you wrote on the b43 ML, I expected that you were using b43.
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>Sorry, but you are on your own. I do not expect that Broadcom would provide help for this legacy product. If you had any other brand, I would suggest that you change the wifi chip. On a Mac, that is not an option. You might try getting a USB dongle, but that can be tricky to get one with a Linux driver.
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>Larry
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