Ubuntu on Mac Laptops

[Eric Dunbar]

Airport Extreme works, but it's alpha quality software at this stage
-- not for the faint of heart as Jack wrote.

Patience (this code has been a few years in the making) :-). I'm sure
there are a _lot_ of hackers (and maybe even a programmer or two)
frenetically trying to get Airport Extreme (aka Broadcom chipset)
working flawlessly and _easily_.

Eric.

On 1/17/06, jack jackson <jackson.linux at gmail.com> wrote:
> Bob, were you agreeing with my question that it's important for the airport
> to work, or was that an enthusiastic YES, meaning that indeed it works?
>
> On 1/14/06, Bob Nielsen <nielsen at oz.net> wrote:
> >
> > On Jan 14, 2006, at 7:42 AM, jack jackson wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > Also, with current kernels(2.6.15) you can get the airport extreme to
> > > work, but it is kinda hard and not for the faint of heart.
> >
> > YES!  My dual-boot mini doesn't get much use out of breezy without a
> > driver for AirPort.
> >
> > > Can you point to a How to? I am desperate to get this to work
> > > because if I can depend on it working I can have my work buy me a
> > > new iBook and I can load Breezy on it - the best of all worlds.
> > > Also I remember with my powerbook and hoary there were issues with
> > > the mouse because it used a USB mouse which wasn't supported. I
> > > guess that's solved?
> >
> > The USB mouse works perfectly for me.