Thanks Scott and Eric. Eric, I understand that it's going to be a bit tricky but basically I wonder this: If I hand compile the driver and install it, will I be able at this stage to associate with a WiFi Access Point and communicate while WPA or at the very least WEP encrypted? I'm all for geeking and tweaking to get to that point, but if I can do that it would be great Thanks, JJ <div>On 1/17/06, Eric Dunbar <<a href="mailto:eric.dunbar@gmail.com">eric.dunbar@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 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 <<a href="mailto:jackson.linux@gmail.com">jackson.linux@gmail.com</a> > 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 <<a href="mailto:nielsen@oz.net"> nielsen@oz.net</a>> 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. -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users"> http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div>