Well, ubuntu's kernel is buggy for the wireless card. You could try me kernel and it works great on my ibook.
http://www.cqis.ncku.edu.tw/~dbtsai/linux-image-2.6.19-rc6_1_powerpc.deb http://www.cqis.ncku.edu.tw/~dbtsai/linux-headers-2.6.19-rc6_1_powerpc.deb Marco 写道: > 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, it doesn't change a thing. > > Where's the problem? Where should i look into? > > TIA for you help, > > marco > > PS > Using kernel version 2.6.17, bcm43xx-fwcutter version 20060501 > _______________________________________________ > Bcm43xx-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev > > _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
