ARCH LINUX MACBOOK PRO RETINA MID 2014 INSTALL
ARCH LINUX MACBOOK PRO RETINA MID 2014 DRIVERS
ARCH LINUX MACBOOK PRO RETINA MID 2014 UPDATE

ARCH LINUX MACBOOK PRO RETINA MID 2014 INSTALL

If you want to install it go here.Ī major drawback of this method is that you cannot use an initramfs, so if you have lvm or encryption then you must use rEFInd. I can confirm that is works well with OS X Mountain Lion however it is untested on OS X Mavericks which it hasn't been tested on. There is longer any active development for it. Refit it is very easy to install however be aware that it is dead. NB: Refit is no longer supported by OS X Yosemite, this due to changes in the OS X boot loader now treats local installation as quasi LVM. However there are two option for you: rEFIt and rEFInd. Currently Apple's Bootcamp does not support Linux. Now you must choose your a EFI boot manager. Now, choose a bootloader to boot the liveUSB and the kernel to be made later.

From kernel version 4.3 onward Thunderbolt hot-plugging should work on recent Apple hardware so it is no longer necessary to have the Thunderbolt Ethernet adapter plugged in during boot. Apple Thunderbolt to Gigabit Ethernet Adapter) or USB adapter is needed. To connect to Ethernet a Thunderbolt (e.g. Note: if full disk encryption exists, it will necessary to temporarily disable it (takes a while) to make any changes to the partition table. Use MacOS Disk Utility to resize the MacOS partition on the fly, which by default takes up most of the disk, and behind it create a Linux root partition of the size you desire. To bootstrap using Ubuntu, grab a mac image and flash it to a USB drive. I have not tried this yet but you can read about it on the rEFIt website. A single boot installation could be performed, but you will need to use the rEFIt instructions for installing rEFIt to the EFI system partition using bless instead of to the MAC partition (which is the default). These instructions will perform a Dual Boot setup with MacOS.

6.1 Resetting the System Managment Controller (SMC).

4.5 Turn off backlight when screen closed.

Now the Wi-Fi device should work just fine. You may need to load the wl module: $ sudo modprobe wlĪnd add it to modules loaded at boot in /etc/modules: lp rtc wl The installation process is quite simple, just follow this order: $ sudo dpkg -i libfakeroot_1.20-3ubuntu2_b $ sudo dpkg -i fakeroot_1.20-3ubuntu2_b $ sudo dpkg -i dkms_2.2.0.3-1.1ubuntu5.14.04_all.deb $ sudo dpkg -i bcmwl-kernel-source_6.30.223.248+bdcom-0ubuntu0.1_b The version numbers will differ from one distribution version to another so check them.

ARCH LINUX MACBOOK PRO RETINA MID 2014 UPDATE

This is what you can see in dmesg for the Wi-Fi device: Broadcom Corporation BCM4360 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter (rev 03)īut this Macbook does not have any Ethernet port so… How can you install the drivers? If you have access to an USB-Ethernet adapter just connect it to the network and install: $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install bcmwl-kernel-sourceīut in case you don’t have one, it’s posible to download all the deb packages (from another computer and copy them to an USB drive) and install them manually.

Ubuntu 14.04 doesn’t install by default any driver suitable for the Wi-Fi device in the Macbook Pro 13' Retina display mid 2014 (A1502 model or MacBookPro11,1).

ARCH LINUX MACBOOK PRO RETINA MID 2014 DRIVERS

Install BCM4360 Wi-Fi drivers in Ubuntu for Macbook Pro 13' Retina display mid 2014

Arch linux macbook pro retina mid 2014