Apple Updates?
Pete Graner
pgraner at redhat.com
Mon Feb 6 02:55:35 UTC 2006
John Summerfied wrote:
> Pete Graner wrote:
>> John Summerfied wrote:
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>>> Pete Graner wrote:
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>>>> 17" that I'm having the following issues with:
>>>>
>>>> Sound modules won't load
>>>> Once modules are loaded sound won't work:
>>>> Can only get X to run with FBDev not ati or radeon driver
>>>> Currently wireless both the BCM and airo drivers are hosed
>
> Pete's response surprised me considerably, so I've renewed my research;
> I have a powerbook and I would like Linux on it, but I've never tried
> hard because of the wireless issue.
>
> This also surprised me, but wasn't much help (wireless "just works,"
> more surprising as it's Debian).
> http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~unclem/linux/installing_debian_powerpc.html
>
John,
It was discussed (and has been) numerous times on this list. The
original post was by David Woodhouse here:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2005-December/msg00820.html
Since that time the bcm43xx driver has been in all the Fedora kernels
with varying degrees of success. In fact I'm using it now on my powerbook :)
Pete
>
> It has info that might help with the other problems though.
>
>>>
>>>
>>> Airport is not going to work any time soon. Not even with
>>> ndiswrapper. If you want working (11g) wireless with Linux, best
>>> prospect is probably a wireless card labelled "atheros." d-link and
>>> netgear have such, but of course the nice OS X software configuration
>>> won't work with those. Probably they won't even work at all on OS X
>>> without some work.
>>>
>>
>> The airport extreme (bcm43xx) *does* work has worked in the past.
>> Recently its gone to pot with newer kernels and Network Manager since
>> wpa was added. I can get it to work by forcing the rate to 11Meg with
>> our cisco gear at work at home it works at 54Meg.
>
> Okay.
> I looked at this a couple of months ago:
> http://linux-bcom4301.sourceforge.net/go/progress and this is what lead
> me to my statement above.
>
> There are lots of folk who, like me, think it doesn't work, won't work
> soon. You will find some here, and whether it does work for you or not,
> you might like to help beat Apple into submission on this.
> http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/archives/2004/10/12/airport-extreme-vs-linux/
>
> http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/archives/2004/10/12/airport-extreme-vs-linux/feed/
>
> It's Apple that chooses the chipset, and it's Apple that agrees to any
> NDAs that prohibit it from releasing specs and/or source.
>
> This seems to be about the best guide to getting it to work, but it's
> not for Every User:
> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-409194.html
>
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