dapper drake on ppc experience

[Tchize]

Recently i installed dapper drake flight 7 ppc on my ibook G4 (1.2Ghz).
Thought i like linux and ubuntu , here is the bad bad part of 
experience, making me feel ibook is not as well supported as x86 desktop.

1) wifi: The wifi driver are provided for the airport wifi card. 
However, those driver need firmware that are not provided. As a result, 
your card 'appear' to be working (no error message anywhere) but is 
unable to connect to network. The firmaware should be provided or 
downloaded by install script.
2) still no way to properly use WPA on wifi. I thought this was supposed 
to be made available in next ubuntu release. All configuration boxes are 
made for wep. The only exception is networkmanager, but networkmanager 
is simply unable to start properly the connection, even in wep mode.
3) Assuming you get a working wifi configuration (that is 
/etc/init.d/networking initialize properly wifi), going through a sleep 
/ wake up cycle does not restore connections. You have to do it manually 
with a networking restart. That's pretty cumbersome.
4) despite the fact my keyboard was recognized and working pretty well 
during installation (french mac usb keyboard), after installation am 
stuck in a standard EN_US mode, and there seems to be no specific 
keyboard for the ibook ?? Strange ocnsidering installation did use it. 
Same for kde, i still didn't manage to find a layout that activated all 
my key. Either alt-tab is not working, either i don't have access to 
character that need to do something like 'alt shift - N' (for the ~ 
character)
5) There is something (probably automount but not sure) that keep making 
my cd/dvd tray spinning and spinning and spinning. This useless motor 
using is consuming the battery fast
6) There is something named gamin installed (a replacement to fam?) 
which is consuming about 30% of CPU on a regular basis. Fam was not 
doing this. Especially at a time i am not modifying files.

Overall, it's unfortunately quite a pain to use kubuntu on ppc :/

I thinks those are area of improvements.

Ps: no flaming, this is quite a feeling on the support of ibook. Ubuntu 
is stil a very good distro imho. :)


regards
Tchize