linux newbie - some issues

Peter Garrett peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au
Fri Aug 26 17:28:00 UTC 2005


On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 10:28:23 -0400
Alvin Thompson <alvin-ubuntu at thompsonlogic.com> wrote:

> whoops, i forgot. precede all of those commands with 'sudo'. so it's
> stuff like 'sudo ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf'
> -alvin
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 10:22 -0400, Alvin Thompson wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 22:52 -0400, Larry Grover wrote:
> > > There's your problem.  You have an airport *exreme* card (broadcom 
> > > chip).  It is not supported under linux.
> > 
> > not true, i'm using that chipset right now. you just need to use
> > NDISWRAPPER, 
> 
As far as I know, ndiswrapper can't be used for Airport Extreme on a PPC machine like my iBook G4. I thought it was only usable on PC architectures? Hope I'm wrong, but this seems to be what my research indicates...

Peter
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