On Saturday 18 November 2006 18:56, Marco wrote:
> Hi all,
> i have just reinstalled Ubuntu Edgy on my ibook g4 (12'') with an
> Airport Express card.
> 
> The first thing that puzzled me is that the fwcutter doesn't recognize
> the AppleAirport2 file from MacOS X to get the firmware to be put in
> /lib/firmware/(kernelversionoptionally).
> 
> I can provide extended information as needed, as now i am just
> investingating known issues.
> 
> The second thing is that, even if i get the firmware in place (taken
> from wl_apsta.o and extracted with fwcutter), i can't use the Airport
> Express: at boot time (and everytime i modprobe the module) dmesg
> states bcm is found and ieee802whatelse is in place, but issuing
> iwconfig eth1 essid *myessid*
> 
> isn't working,

Isn't working isn't a bugreport.

> it doesn't change a thing. 
> 
> Where's the problem? Where should i look into?

dmesg

> TIA for you help,
> 
> marco
> 
> PS
> Using kernel version 2.6.17, bcm43xx-fwcutter version 20060501

Upgrade the kernel.
We can only support current stable kernel.

-- 
Greetings Michael.
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