I'm running macOS on a macbook pro from late 2013 but am reading the Arch wiki on and focusing on the first part: the first part is to identify and ensure the correct driver for your wireless device is installed My goal is to get a better understanding of how to figure out: • What is the physical wifi device on my machine? • What drivers do I need to make it work? • Will it work with linux? There may be two reasons why the wiki page shows fewer features. First, simply because the Linux driver does not support the feature that the Mac driver has.

In that case, it will be shown as unsupported even if the device does support it with a proper driver. The open source driver simply wouldn't be able to 'speak' that feature. Second possible reason is simply the because wiki may have obsolete data. It's seldom a good idea to look for specialised up-to-date technical information on Wikipedia. Try the distros' wikis for more up-to-date data, or (if available) the driver's readme file. – Mar 4 at 21:58. What is the difference between the Card Type and the Firmware Version?

I believe I am running the same card: AirPort Extreme (0x14E4, 0x8E). Firmware Version: Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (5.106.98.100.24). Actually Sierra WILL run on the 2008 Mac Pro, but the standard wifi card will not work, but you can install a wifi dongle and it will all work. Be sure the correct modules are blacklisted and occasionally it may be necessary to blacklist the brcm80211 drivers if accidentally detected before the wl driver is loaded. Furthermore, update the modules dependencies depmod -a, verify the.

Seems to be there is a serious bug in BCM43xx adapter firmware (MacBook Pro 15 mid 2014) resulting in failed S3 resume initialization (wake-up from Sleep) under Windows 10. Detection algorithm: 1. Using Device Manager completely uninstall Broadcom 802.11ac network driver with option.

The Card Type field shown in 'About this mac' appears to be broken. It seems to be combining the card's vendor ID with the subsystem vendor ID, which may or may not uniquely identify the card, and even if it does, only to the system vendor's native operating system. The firmware version is the version of the firmware running on the device. A wireless card is sufficiently complicated that it has it's own CPU inside (for example, a microcontroller). The firmware version identifies the software running on the card's CPU. Is the Firmware Version another word for a Driver?

The operating system driver runs on the main CPU. It is responsible for interfacing the OS to the PCI bus. The firmware runs on the wireless card. It is responsible for interfacing the PCI bus to the actual wireless radio hardware.

It is kind of like a 'driver' in the end, except you don't want to call it that because it would cause more confusion. You can think of the PCI bus as a telephone line between a house (OS) and a nearby shed (wireless card). The driver is in the house talking on the telephone with the firmware, which is in the shed. The driver is subordinate to a chain of command in the house, but the firmware is king of the castle in the shed. The situation is further complicated by the fact that many cards do not include the firmware on the card itself; the card itself just has a kind of bootloader that can load the firmware over PCI and then execute it.

Download Free How To Program Keyless Remote For Eclipse more. So you have to have a compatible firmware file on the OS side and the OS driver needs to know how to feed it in to fully bring up the card. But the firmware does not run in the OS, it's just fed to the card without (too much) processing. Which terms in the output of lspci -k correspond to the output from 'About this mac'? None of them.

Intel Corporation WiFi Link 5100 should have PCI ID [8086:4232], and definitely not a match to PCI vendor 0x14E4 (Broadcom). You're hitting different hardware from MacOS as from Linux; the complete output of lspci -nn might reveal what is going on.

How do I know what driver to install? The card you did find in Linux has already been claimed by iwlwifi. If you can get running with that it's probably better to do that as the Intel cards have better Linux compatibility than the Broadcom ones.