Has anyone been able to get the Airport Extreme (Broadcom 802.11g) cards in the various Apple products (e.g. iBook G4) working with YDL? Someone managed to reverse-engineer the Broadcom chipset, which is reportedly used not only in the Apple cards, but also in other products e.g. PCI cards from Linksys. Anyway, I imagine some people have seen this site:
http://bcm43xx.berlios.de/ Here are a couple more links with some helpful info: http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/archive/index.php/t-87925.html http://digg.com/linux_unix/Finally,_a_linux_driver_for_the_Airport_Extreme_ I saw it claimed somewhere that YDL 4.1 shipped with a beta driver, but I've never seen the driver myself. Is it on one of the CDs somewhere? I also understand that the Broadcom drivers have been integrated into the kernel since 2.6.17-rc2. Unfortunately, I'm running an earlier kernel (as are most, probably): $ uname -a $ Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.15-rc5.ydl.1 #1 Wed Jan 4 16:25:38 EST 2006 ppc ppc ppc GNU/Linux FFI on kernel-integrated drivers (also on the bcm43xx site): http://www.yellowdog-board.com/viewtopic.php?t=1296 I know that I could get the source for a new kernel at kernel.org; however, getting a new kernel compiled is way over my head right now. For the moment, I'm using a wireless Ethernet bridge to connect my iBook G4 to my Airport base station. However, that's not really the ideal solution when I need to be mobile (the bridge requires its own power supply, etc.). Anyone know of a kernel package that can simply be installed by yum? I've been kind of spoiled by Synaptic (Debian package manager), which lets me install multiple kernels and choose one on startup. -PRH _______________________________________________ yellowdog-newbie mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-newbie
