Can't "see" Airport Wireless

[Justin Tisserat]

Peter Stoddard wrote:

>On Sunday 18 December 2005 6:49 pm, ubuntu-users-request at lists.ubuntu.com 
>  
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>I have Ubuntu installed on an Apple PowerBook G4 with a PPC Processor
>>using Ubuntu Breezy Badger 5.10. During the installation process the
>>Ubuntu install sees and loads module support for the Airport WiFi card
>>in my laptop. However, once Ubuntu is installed and I log in I can't
>>seem to see the wireless interface. Being new to Linux I am at a loss as
>>to how to configure the WiFi card. I am familiar with the basics of
>>ifup/ifdown/ifconfig but with the WiFi card I'm not sure where to
>>start.  I have an Airport wireless (802.11b) not an Airport Extreme. I
>>don't mind the learning curve and would appreciate some feedback on
>>where to start. Thanks!
>>    
>>
>
>I have the same problem.  It turns out that I have a wireless Airport Extreme 
>network card manufactured by Broadcom (BCM4306).  I forget the command I used 
>to find that out -- maybe someone can tell you the correct command.  
>
>Broadcom devices are not supported in Linux because the source code has not 
>been made available by the manufacturer.  The driver has apparently been 
>reverse engineered, with details at:
>
>http://osnews.com/story.php?news_id=12886
>
>I downloaded an experimental driver but couldn't compile it.  Its a little 
>over my head at the moment.  
>
>I hope you have a simpler time of it.
>
>Pete
>
>  
>
Hi Pete, et. all,

I believe I have an older airport.

I checked and do see that that a device does show on the Gnome Device 
Manager under KeyLargo Mac I/O as eth1; I'm assuming thats the Airport 
since I already have a device under UniNorth GMAC (Sun GEM) as eth0 
which I know to be the wired ethernet.  When I checked 
/etc/network/interfaces I saw no entry for it so I added it as a DHCP 
device and issued an ifup command. Now eth1 happly starts up looking for 
DHCP.

Assuming eth1 is the Airport card I suppose now its a matter of 
configuring it properly. I am not sure if Ubuntu supports WPA. Thats 
what I have set up here at home.

- Justin