Plover
Plover is a "Late 2013" MacBookPro with Retina display. Model number A1502
The screen delaminated when it was about 2 years old, but it's still usable. I missed out on getting Apple to fix it for free.
When I had ArcGIS installer here I ran Parallels on Plover.
Number of cores = 2, but they are hyperthreaded, so they appear as 4 CPUs in Linux.
History
2022-12-20 -- Got the new TP-Link wifi going.
2022-12-10 -- It's now running Elementary OS, with 2 small problems. The charge indicator never goes above 61%, and Wifi driver.
Support for OS upgrades stopped.
2019-??-?? -- I have Mojave on it now
2018-Jul-23 -- Removed ESRI software, personal license is now on Murre, developer license is history.
2016-Sep-02 -- Installed updates this morning and now it can't find any apps. See below
2016-Jan-16 -- I put El Capitan on it yesterday.
Software
Windows 7 in Parallels for various things like Visual Studio and ham radio programs
Broadcom (built-in) WiFi
WiFi - I failed to find the right magic to make the built-in WiFi work with Elementary OS. For a week I used an Alfa USB device which is bulky and slow. Then the new TP-Link arrived and I had to do the dance to make it work.
lspci -vnn | grep -i net shows the builtin interface, which I don't have working yet.
03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries BCM4360 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter [14e4:43a0] (rev 03) Subsystem: Apple Inc. BCM4360 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter [106b:0112] Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0 Memory at b0600000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32K] Memory at b0400000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2M] Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 3 Capabilities: [58] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+ Capabilities: [68] Vendor Specific Information: Len=44 <?> Capabilities: [ac] Express Endpoint, MSI 00 Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting Capabilities: [13c] Device Serial Number 3c-15-00-ff-ff-00-00-01 Capabilities: [150] Power Budgeting <?> Capabilities: [160] Virtual Channel Capabilities: [1b0] Latency Tolerance Reporting Capabilities: [220] Resizable BAR <?> Kernel modules: bcma
Accordingly I need to install the "wl" driver, see https://wiki.debian.org/wl#Debian_7_.22Wheezy.22
Should be here since this is Ubuntu not Debian Wheezy. https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bcmwl
The table there gives me "14e4:43a0 bcmwl-kernel-source bcmwl-kernel-source"
So I need to do the kernel thing. I dutifully installed the bcmwl-kernel-source package, it built the drivers, but they won't load because they say there is a symbol missing. Like this: "insmod: ERROR: could not insert module brcmsmac.ko: Unknown symbol in module"
Don't use insmod.... ooohhh.... !!! Use modprobe, like this,
modprobe -v brcmsmac insmod /lib/modules/5.15.0-56-generic/kernel/drivers/bcma/bcma.ko insmod /lib/modules/5.15.0-56-generic/kernel/lib/math/cordic.ko insmod /lib/modules/5.15.0-56-generic/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmutil/brcmutil.ko insmod /lib/modules/5.15.0-56-generic/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmsmac/brcmsmac.ko
TP-Link AC1300 Wifi adapter
I forget the exact commands I used to get the TP-Link AC1300 "Archer T3U Nano" (2357:012e) going. This is an approximation.
Find the current kernel number then install the headers. I have to do this again every time the kernel gets upgraded.
uname -a sudo apt install linux-headers-5.15.0-58-generic sudo apt install rtl8812au-dkms sudo modprobe 8812au sudo reboot
Camera
The built-in camera does not work. I am trying to fix it by foillowing instructions here: https://github.com/patjak/facetimehd/wiki/Get-Started#devvideo-not-created
Clear DNS cache
sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder
Dual displays
Apple does a superlative job of supporting multiple displays, I can plug in 2 external monitors and get 3 total separate displays or I can use external mouse and keyboard working with the lid closed on the Mac.
- Plug in a cheap Firewire/Thunderbolt DVI adapter on the left side of Plover.
- Connect monitor #1 (Dell 20") to the adapter.
- Connect monitor #2 (Acer 23") to the DVI port on the right side of Plover
- Connect Plover to AC power and close the lid.
- Set the monitors to separate mode (not mirrored) using icon in Menu bar.
Use with either USB or Bluetooth keyboard and mouse.
Voila! 2 big screens. Cables running all over heck.
Update fail
Was able to log in using Julie's account. Trying this: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7376445 I see "mdworker deny(1) file-read-data" errors in /var/log/system.log
This worked:
find /private/var/folders |grep com.apple.LaunchServices | grep csstore > /tmp/foo
Now delete each of those files.
for i in `cat /tmp/foo`; do sudo rm -f $i; done
And reboot. All should now be well. I wonder what those files do and how that guy figured out what to do.
Details
Model Name: MacBook Pro
Model Identifier: MacBookPro11,1 Processor Name: Intel Core i7 Processor Speed: 2.8 GHz Number of Processors: 1 Total Number of Cores:2 L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB L3 Cache: 4 MB Memory: 16 GB Boot ROM Version: MBP111.0138.B16 SMC Version (system): 2.16f68
APPLE SSD SM1024F:
Capacity: 1 TB (1,000,555,581,440 bytes) Model: APPLE SSD SM1024F Revision: UXM6JA1Q Serial Number: S1K6NYAF516200 Native Command Queuing: Yes Queue Depth: 32 Removable Media: No Detachable Drive: No BSD Name: disk0 Medium Type: Solid State TRIM Support: Yes Partition Map Type: GPT (GUID Partition Table) S.M.A.R.T. status: Verified
