Richard Michael wrote: > Hello, > > I recently installed Fedora 9 PPC on a Powerbook G4 Titanium. I have > been trying to configure the Airport Extreme wireless card without > success. The b43 loads, and the interface is available, but after > installing the firmware, the system freezes and requires a hard reboot. > > At first, I thought I should use b43 and new firmware, since this is > kernel 2.6.25 (and Fedora wanted to use that driver!). Although, > perhaps I should use b43legacy and old firmware, since this is a > "BCM4306 ... rev(03)" card. > > Has anyone got this card working? > > Below is the entire procedure I went through already, trying both > drivers and firmware; sorry for the long post. :)
A BCM4306 rev 03 is used my Michael Buesch, the main developer of b43, and I think he uses it on PPC hardware. If not, he will let us know. The correct driver to use is b43. If you had a rev 2 BCM4306, it would use b43legacy. The choice of b43 versus b43legacy is made by ssb and is dependent on the revision level of the 802.11 core located on the Sonics Silicon Backplane. That rev level cannot be seen from the outside. I repeat - b43 is the correct driver. Your initial choice of firmware was correct. It should be extracted from the 4.150.10.5 driver. One should _NEVER_ link /lib/firmware/b43 to /lib/firmware/b43legacy. After you did that, you tried to load V3 firmware, which does not work with b43, thus the "TOO OLD" message. As to why your system locked up, I don't know. To help debug this, use a 'sudo strace ifup' command to start bringing up the interface. This produces a lot of output, but hopefully it will reveal something useful on the screen when it freezes. To get the most output, maximize the terminal in which you issue the command. This sounds like a problem in the PPC port of F9. I hope you have looked at the Fedora forums. Larry _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
