sumarise ppc problems

[Eric Dunbar]

On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 04:01:39 -0500, volvoguy <volvoguy at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I suspect that Apple doesn't own the rights to AE chipset which is why
> > they won't be in any hurry to release that info to the community at
> > large (same reason they can't release OS 7.6 and later into the public
> > domain -- they don't have the rights to some key underlying
> > technologies). Keep your eye on YDL for solutions. They work closely
> 
> Ahh. I did not know that (about OS 7.6+). I've often wondered why they
> didn't just give the old stuff away for people with older machines.
> Prices have gone down a lot now, but about a year ago, people on ebay
> were getting $100+for OS 8 and 9.

I'm still amazed that Apple has gone as far as _providing_ people with
_free_ copies of older versions of the Mac OS! (try to imagine the
nameless monolith doing that with Windows 95... IIRC they don't even
provide downloads of patches for Win 95 anymore... or at least they
were going to stop providing free d/ls according to a document I read
in 2002).

$100 for OS 8 and 9! Someone was getting suckered. You could buy those
SHRINKWRAPPED for much less.

> > As for your cards... check out Orinoco's Gold or Silver cards. They're
> 
> Wouldn't you know - I finally got my hands on an Orinoco Silver card
> about a week before my Dell laptop died. It did work well though. :o)
> The new iBooks don't have any PCMCIA (or PC Card - whatever they call
> 'em now) slots. Just USB and Firewire. Since there wasn't a quick
> answer to this question, I'll start digging myself and report my
> findings back here.

Ahhh. An iBook! These are the consumer versions and, well, only a tiny
fraction of users use PC slots for anything other than wireless cards
so that's how Apple differentiates between the "pro" and "consumer"
models (and justifies the $$$ difference).

Your options are:
(1) learn how you can run all your favourite Xwindows apps on Mac OS
X's X11 (most will run with nothing more than a simple recompile, and
many are already available as binaries... OS X is a full fledged BSD
Unix-like OS afterall (same utilities that Linux uses)) and use
Airport Extreme natively;
(2) pay someone big bucks to reverse engineer you a driver for Linux;
(3) use an ethernet-wireless bridge (another Airport base station for
e.g.... Airport basestations are actually more advanced than the vast
majority of cheap "no name" (e.g. LinkSys, DLink, etc) 802.11b/g
routers since they allow for roaming and bridging all in one unit);
(4) use an USB wireless adapter.

> I also promised some log files. The most unusual info is in the dmesg
> log I believe - something about the ROM being wrong on my video card.
> *shrug* Sorry for the attachment, but I'm really sore and haven't been
> out of bed much in a few days.

Can't help you on that.

Eric.