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marlier
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 Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2003 6:42 pm Post subject: Airport extreme card drivers? |
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| I have an airport extreme card in my machine, but it doesn't seem to be recognized under linux. I tried the standard airport driver, and that doesn't work...any thoughts on drivers? Do they even exist? |
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FlashLight
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| Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2003 8:53 pm Post subject: |
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| I think at the moment there isn't any support for the Airport Extreme, although there's a group working on it. Nothing solid yet though. Your only other option would be to get a USB wireless adapter. |
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Crypto
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| Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2003 12:13 am Post subject: .... |
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That's right, there is not Airport Extreme support under linux, and I think it's there won't be anytime soon.
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ozonator
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Location: Ontario, Canada
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| Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2003 3:40 am Post subject: |
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| FlashLight wrote: | | Your only other option would be to get a USB wireless adapter. |
Or a PCMCIA card, if you're using a PowerBook that has a slot for one. And, there's also those wireless bridge devices that will plug into any regular ethernet slot (e.g., from d-link), but I have no idea how well they work. |
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codepupil
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Joined: 18 Dec 2003
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| Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2003 5:36 am Post subject: how can I help |
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I want to help with the work going on with this driver and from what I gather this would basically be Disassembling the driver (not sure how I would go about doing this in osx). I'm willing to learn (read: read books work by self once given a idea where to start).
Problem is no one seems to *_know_* anything about this group of people working on this. The guys over at linux-bcm4301 seem to be working on some thing similar but with ndiswrapper working this site is all but dead. Speaking of ndiswrapper I know that this will not work on the ppc arch, but does anyone have a clue on how hard it would be to port to ppc/osx? (Not sure what apple uses that would compare to ndis if anything)? Sorry about my rant  just hope some one can point me in the right direction
Thanks for any help and just as a side note the gentoo-ppc community is great thanks to all who help for the sweat and tears to make my PBG4 greet me with a XDM login ever day  |
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