[off topic] Linux on laptop and all FLOSS?

[John Levin]

On 5 Apr 2005, at 09:19, Magnus Therning wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 06:31:32PM +0100, baza wrote:
>> Airport extreme wifi card does not work with Linux (any distro). 
>> That's
>> why I'm still using OSx on my iBook.
>
> Yes, yet again it seems it's the wireless device that doesn't work. :-(
>
> Looking at tuxmobil.org I get somewhat confused. There seems to be A 
> LOT
> of different iBooks and PowerBooks (AlBook, TiBook, etc...). How do I
> know which model is on sale at the moment,

 From the horses mouth:
www.apple.com
There's actually only a few models available at any time.

>  and more importantly exactly
> what is in it? (Any good pointers to sites where Mac-FANatics hang 
> out?)
>

If you have a mac (or even windows) you can get MacTracker 
(http://www.mactracker.ca/), which is  handy little database of every 
model of mac there's ever been.
For mac/linux fanatics, try:
http://www.penguinppc.org/
http://www.ppcnerds.org/index.html

> Also it seems that airport works on some models:
> http://cattlegrid.net/~christophe/titanium/#AIRPORT

That's the Airport card, which has been superceeded by Airport *Extreme*
I don't know where to get airport 'standard' cards - I'd very much like 
one for my ubuntu-ised ibook.

Hope this helps

John