Working Wi-Fi on Macbooks with Ubuntu Linux

To use a MacBook’s Atheros wireless chipset on Linux, you need to use Ndiswrapper with the provided Boot Camp drivers.

1. Get the wi-fi driver at makel.org. The one you’re looking for is drivers/Atheros/AtherosXPInstaller.exe.
2. Install ndiswrapper from apt.
3. Install unrar from apt.
4. Extract the drivers with “$ unrar x AtherosXPInstaller.exe“
5. Install the drivers with “$ ndiswrapper -i net5416.inf“
6. $ sudo modprobe ndiswrapper
7. $ sudo echo >> /etc/modules “ndiswrapper”
8. Delete the temporary files
9. The wireless should start working immediately.