sumarise ppc problems

[volvoguy]

On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 15:19:14 -0500, Eric Dunbar <eric.dunbar at gmail.com> wrote:

> Airport Extreme is at present unsupported by anyone but Apple. The
> specs for the chipset are a tightly guarded secret and no one has been
> able to reverse engineer them. If you're interested in wireless access
> on an Airport Extreme-based Macintosh you do have a few options:
> (laptops with PCMCIA slot) 802.11b/g/a card; wireless USB adapter;
> wireless-to-ethernet bridge device. The Airport card in my PowerBook
> G3 "Pismo" worked 'out of the box'. During the install Ubuntu
> recognised and properly configured it for access and used it to d/l
> everything during the install process.

Yeah. That kinda stinks. Is it definitely Apple's fault and not the
chip maker (or "real" Airport Extreme maker, since Apple probably
doesn't make them in-house). If so, just for the record I'd like to
email them about it. One email won't do much, but maybe if lots of
LinuxPPC users are doing it....

You started to answer my next question already. :o) I didn't see any
specifics on the supported hardware page in the wiki yet. Do we know
of any USB 802.11 g/b (I only have a "b" access point) adapters that
will definitely work? I know they go on sale super cheap sometimes and
it would still be better than fighting with a cat5 cable in my
hospital bed.



> > it on and off - not what it actually does. Now, that said, 3D
> > acceleration *seems* to be working here. All of the 3D screensavers
> > perform at an acceptable speed.
> 
> I would suggest you search through the YellowDogLinux general and
> newbie mailing list archives... something like a Google for...
> site:terrasoftsolutions.com x.org

Awesome. Thanks! I'll check that out.


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Aaron

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