Macbook Pro

[nucleus]

LiveCD BT3 beta, 700Mb works on Macbook Pro.

Tested: macchanger (works both on ethernet and airport), ethernet, airport (monitor mode with wlanconfig, injection works), native video resolution (1440x900), no video acceleration

Model Name: MacBook Pro
Model Identifier: MacBookPro3,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.2 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 4 MB
Memory: 2 GB
Bus Speed: 800 MHz
Boot ROM Version: MBP31.0070.B02
SMC Version: 1.16f8

Graphics:
Chipset Model: GeForce 8600M GT
Type: Display
Bus: PCIe
PCIe Lane Width: x16
VRAM (Total): 128 MB
Vendor: NVIDIA (0x10de)
Device ID: 0x0407
Revision ID: 0x00a1
ROM Revision: 3175

Wireless Card Type: AirPort Extreme (0x168C, 0x87)
Wireless Card Locale: Worldwide
Wireless Card Firmware Version: 1.2.2

[r0v0s]

do you see any reason why BT3 could not run with the small mac book, because i am planning to buy one in the very far future and with BT working that would be incredible fantastic

[mscsnoopy]

your wireless card is an airport extreme, but only your chipset is of interest try to boot in windows xp and go to the hardware manager, it will show you the name of your chipset... in my macbook there is an atheros 5006X chipset. i guess you will have something like atheros 5008EXS (this was used in the previous macbook pro version with ATI graphics)

would be nice if you can post the name of your chipset. did you have to set any boot options like "boot noacpi irqpoll acpi=force" ? i had to use this boot parameters to boot bt2... otherwise any keystroke had been displayed twice ^^ instead of "root" i wrote "rroooott"

[nucleus]

do you see any reason why BT3 could not run with the small mac book, because i am planning to buy one in the very far future and with BT working that would be incredible fantastic

I would suggest you to search the forum and wiki. I don't have an experience with the Macbook but I remember there were some problems with it. Moreover, Apple has updated the Macbook models recently. If the future is very far, I would not think about the particular hardware The best is just to grab your .iso, go to the nearest shop and try it.

Peace and love

[nucleus]

your wireless card is an airport extreme, but only your chipset is of interest try to boot in windows xp and go to the hardware manager, it will show you the name of your chipset... in my macbook there is an atheros 5006X chipset. i guess you will have something like atheros 5008EXS (this was used in the previous macbook pro version with ATI graphics)

would be nice if you can post the name of your chipset. did you have to set any boot options like "boot noacpi irqpoll acpi=force" ? i had to use this boot parameters to boot bt2... otherwise any keystroke had been displayed twice ^^ instead of "root" i wrote "rroooott"

Don't have windows on my laptop and not going to get/install it BT3 has started without any extra boot options. It loads madwifi drivers for the airport and gives you a device ath0. However, you are right: airport extreme means nothing. Only the chipset name is the solid ground

[mscsnoopy]

yes ath0 is used in bt2 as well. can you type in a shell "lspci" and search for "airport extreme" or something with atheros in it?

[r0v0s]

I would suggest you to search the forum and wiki. I don't have an experience with the Macbook but I remember there were some problems with it. Moreover, Apple has updated the Macbook models recently. If the future is very far, I would not think about the particular hardware The best is just to grab your .iso, go to the nearest shop and try it.

Peace and love

that is a good idea. i will try the iso on a macbook as soon as i am near a shop

[mscsnoopy]

but i guess they wont let you boot backtrack here in germany (if they have any clue about bt...)
its even illegal to HAVE backtrack

[nucleus]

yes ath0 is used in bt2 as well. can you type in a shell "lspci" and search for "airport extreme" or something with atheros in it?

lspci:
0b:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5418 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)

0c:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Marvell Yukon 88E8058 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 13)

lsmod:
Module Size Used by
snd_seq_dummy 6660 0
snd_seq_oss 32768 0
snd_seq_midi_event 10112 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 49872 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device 10508 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss 42656 0
snd_mixer_oss 17920 1 snd_pcm_oss
pcmcia 35244 0
pcmcia_core 36628 1 pcmcia
capability 7304 0
commoncap 9344 1 capability
fuse 41876 0
lp 13864 0
parport_pc 27940 0
parport 34888 2 lp,parport_pc
pcspkr 6400 0
psmouse 38792 0
wlan_scan_sta 16128 1
ath_rate_sample 17280 1
snd_hda_intel 20248 0
snd_hda_codec 211712 1 snd_hda_intel
ath_pci 111400 0
wlan 201776 4 wlan_scan_sta,ath_rate_sample,ath_pci
snd_pcm 71428 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
intel_agp 25500 1
joydev 12096 0
ath_hal 281312 3 ath_rate_sample,ath_pci
i2c_i801 11536 0
agpgart 31304 1 intel_agp
ata_generic 9220 0
snd_timer 22276 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
sky2 42248 0
appletouch 11904 0
snd 46692 9 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd _mixer_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm,snd _timer
sg 30364 0
shpchp 33300 0
soundcore 9824 1 snd
evdev 12032 6
snd_page_alloc 11400 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
aufs 106372 1
squashfs 48388 12
sqlzma 6916 1 squashfs
unlzma 8576 1 sqlzma

[nucleus]

but i guess they wont let you boot backtrack here in germany (if they have any clue about bt...)
its even illegal to HAVE backtrack

then move to Switzerland!