Derick, Still no good. Here is what I did:
1) I found an old install disk for Airport Extreme. I used Pacifist (a cool utility) to extract the package contents from the cd. 2) I used version 006 of the fwcutter program to extract the drivers from AppleAirport2 into /lib/firmware 3) Made the following ifcfg-eth1 file DEVICE=eth1 ONBOOT=no HWADDR=00:0d:93:7f:4c:c3 NETMASK= DHCP_HOSTNAME= IPADDR= DOMAIN= TYPE=Wireless ESSID='B&MLocal' CHANNEL=6 MODE=Managed RATE=Auto USERCTL=yes IPV6INIT=yes PEERDNS=yes BOOTPROTO=dhcp 4)rebooted 5)/sbin/ifconfig eth1 SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory 6)dmesg (relevant part) b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43/ucode5.fw" not found or load failed. b43-phy0 ERROR: You must go to http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware and download the correct firmware (version 4). 7)/sbin/iwconfig eth1 Warning: Driver for device eth1 has been compiled with version 22 of Wireless Extension, while this program supports up to version 20. Some things may be broken... eth1 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"" Mode:Managed Channel:0 Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=0 dBm Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2346 B Encryption key:off Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0 Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 Any ideas? There appears to be some problem with the drivers. Thanks again for all of your help. Barry On Aug 7, 2008, at 7:21 PM, Derick Centeno wrote: > Hi Barry: > > I found that you don't need the latest version of OS X; actually Tiger > (10.4.6) is quite good enough. As Apple chose to drop the PPC, I'll > be > eventually switching to Windows so that I could do decent work and > dual > boot between Windows and YDL running on a 4 core Cell. So it's just > as > well that your question comes up now. > > Read carefully the instructions provided in the link discussing > Airport > Extreme, it tells you where the file you question is found. Please > note > that Airport Extreme was a special installation option I chose at the > time I bought my G4 - so on my PB it is installed. > Keeping that in mind the following can be executed from within the > Terminal application found in Utilities within OS X. > > Here is what a Terminal session looks like revealing a portion of the > directory in question; I'm showing a partial listing. Note that ... > means something precedes and something follows: > > arakus:/System/Library/Extensions aguila$ ls > > ... > AppleADT746x.kext > AppleAirPort.kext > AppleAirPort2.kext > AppleAltiVecDVDDriver.bundle > ... > > As far as the fwcutter application is concerned I stayed with the > version listed in the example, the update or current version didn't > work > within YDL. So I stayed with what works. > > All the best... > > Barry Hembree wrote: >> Derick, >> >> Thanks for your response. I went ahead and installed Mac OS X back on >> my computer and upgraded it to the latest version. I don't seem to >> have an AppleAirport2 file. I only have a AppleAirport file. I think >> the AppleAirport2 file is pre-Leopard. The fwcutter program (I have >> tried two different versions) does not seem to want to extract the >> file I have. Any suggestions? >> >> Barry >> >> On Aug 6, 2008, at 9:00 PM, Derick Centeno wrote: >> >> >>> Hi Barry! >>> >>> I've got the same type of computer you do. According to the >>> references I found >>> on-line regarding wl-4.80.53.0, for whatever reason, it is buggy and >>> doesn't >>> work. The only way around this is to have OS X running such that >>> fwcutter can >>> extract the firmware from it. >>> >>> I understand your feelings regarding OS X, I commiserate. However, >>> a running >>> version which is used such that a viable version of the firmware >>> becomes >>> extracted from it is the best way to insure the quality of firmware >>> you acquire >>> and import into YDL. I don't envy the work ahead; I can only state >>> that once >>> you pass that stage you may find that the effort was worth it. >>> >>> The instructions on this page still work: >>> http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/support/solutions/ydl_5.x/airport-extreme.shtml >>> >>> Problems I found: >>> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] b43-fwcutter-009]# ./b43-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware/ >>> \/mnt/macosx/Sys*/Libr*/Ex*/Ap*/Con*/Ma*/AppleAirPort2 Sorry, the >>> input file is >>> either wrong or not supported by b43-fwcutter. This file has an >>> unknown MD5sum >>> 85c71d658b650fd2ef546d1d81b113a0. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] b43-fwcutter-009]# >>> >>> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] bcm43XX-fwcutter-006]# ./bcm43XX-fwcutter -w /lib/ >>> firmware/ >>> \/mnt/macosx/System/Library/Extensions/AppleAirPort2.kext/Contents/ >>> MacOS/AppleAirPort2 >>> Sorry, the input file is either wrong or not supported by bcm43XX- >>> fwcutter. >>> This file has an unknown MD5sum 85c71d658b650fd2ef546d1d81b113a0. >>> >>> The above was resolved by NOT copying over the ifcfg-eth1 file with >>> the >>> ifcfg-eth0 file. Also the HWADDR variable in ifcfg-eth1 != the >>> HWADDR variable >>> in ifcfg-eth0. Anaconda creates both files with different >>> definitions for the >>> hardware location accessed for Ethernet (eth0) and Wireless (eth1). >>> >>> What follows is the ifcfg-eth1 file settings located in /etc/sys*/ >>> net*scripts: >>> >>> # Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller >>> DEVICE=eth1 >>> ONBOOT=no >>> BOOTPROTO=dhcp >>> HWADDR=00:11:24:90:c3:d8 >>> NETMASK= >>> DHCP_HOSTNAME=arakus >>> IPADDR= >>> DOMAIN= >>> TYPE=Wireless >>> ESSID=off/any >>> CHANNEL=1 >>> MODE=Managed >>> RATE=Auto >>> USERCTL=yes >>> IPV6INIT=yes >>> PEERDNS=yes >>> >>> After reboot, it is then possible to do the standard manual >>> invocation of eth1 >>> via the terminal. >>> >>> The sequence anywhere else entails looking/scanning for signals and >>> using the >>> essid which are available and/or to those essid's key i've been >>> given to use >>> (in the event of an encrpted network: >>> >>> 1. #ifconfig eth1 up >>> 2. #iwconfig eth1 >>> 3. #iwlist eth1 scanning >>> 4. #iwconfig eth1 channel 6 txpower on rate auto essid ???????????? >>> 5. #dhclient eth1 >>> >>> Explanation: ? represent #'s and letters identifying a router or >>> password. >>> In the event a router's signal has a name line 4 should be: >>> >>> #iwconfig eth1 channel 6 txpower on rate auto essid 'xxxxxxxxx' >>> key ????????????????? >>> >>> where x are the char forming the name and the key is the password >>> sequence to >>> that protected router. >>> >>> Of course if you decide to use wpa-supplicant -- a good idea as it >>> is better >>> security, then the sequence of initiating connection between airport >>> extreme >>> and the router will be different. >>> >>> All the best... >>> >>> >>> On Wed, 6 Aug 2008 09:26:53 -0500 >>> Barry Hembree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Hi All, >>>> >>>> I recently installed ydl 6.0 on my g4 powerbook. I am having a hard >>>> time getting the wireless interface to work. I followed the >>>> instructions in the various threads but still no luck. Here are the >>>> step I took: >>>> >>>> 1) bownloaded and compiled the fwcutter program (I have the wired >>>> ethernet connection working) >>>> 2) downloaded wl-4.80.53.0 and extracted into /lib/firmware (I >>>> don't >>>> have Mac OS X on my computer anymore) >>>> 3) Tried various combination of editing configuration files by hand >>>> and using the network-config app. >>>> >>>> I do get an error message when I try to activate the device as >>>> follows: >>>> >>>> Error wireless request "Set Mode (8B06)" >>>> >>>> any help at this point would be gratly appreciated. I have spent >>>> far >>>> too many hours on this. >>>> >>>> Thanks >>>> Barry >>>> >>> ===== >>> "If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often >>> think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms >>> of >>> music. ... 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