linux-wlan on OS X

Matt Zimmerman mdz at ubuntu.com
Mon Jan 24 05:10:51 UTC 2005


On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 07:11:15PM -0500, Richard Sperling wrote:

> Small problem. Ubuntu Linux PPC doesn't support the Airport Extreme 
> wireless card on my Apple Powerbook G4. So I've got no Internet access 
> at the moment. I have another USB wireless card, but it needs the 
> linux-wlan driver to make it work. I need configured kernel source, 
> however, in order to compile linux-wlan. So my question is how I can 
> manually download and install the kernel source? Running uname -r 
> yields 2.6.8.1-3. I know there's  a kernel security update available, 
> but I'd like to get linux-wlan working first. Once that's done, then I 
> can use apt-get to grab the updates. Any help is appreciated.

http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/faq/compile-kernel-module

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 - mdz




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