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Cheers...

_Raju


On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 22:33:19 -0500, Barry Hawkins <barry at alltc.com> wrote:
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> Jay Loden wrote:
> | On Wednesday 05 January 2005 5:16, Barry Hawkins wrote:
> |
> | Airport Extreme has zero support under Linux?  It will be pretty
> unlikely for
> | me to bother running Linux on a PowerBook if I can't have wireless,
> and the
> | 12inch has no pcmcia card slot to use, either. I had planned on dual
> booting
> | but maybe not...
> |
> | -Jay
> Jay,
> ~    Yes, sadly, any 12" PowerBook is not a great idea, since they have
> Airport Extreme and no PCMCIA slot. Airport Extreme is a mini-PCI NIC
> with a Broadcom chipset.  Broadcom chipset == no way in hell, more or
> less.  There's a petition online that you can sign, but we know how that
> goes.  You can search the Debian PowerPC mailing list archives for lots
> of talk about this[0].  If it is an nVidia-based 12", that's even worse.
> ~    For Linux on Apple hardware enthusiasts, the golden age of Apple
> laptops was the last iBook G3 and the last Titanium PowerBook G4 (1GHz).
> ~ These have video cards that have supported sleep for a long time and
> Airport cards which are fully supported in the stock kernel since way
> back, which are typically the sore spots for us.
> ~    Sleep support is currently showing good results as a test patch from
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt (the PowerPC Linux kernel guru) for ATI-based
> Aluminum PowerBooks, but still no hope for Airport Extreme.  Most folks
> usually snag a PCMCIA/CardBus NIC for wireless on the Aluminum PowerBook
> 15" and 17" series
> ~    Also Google for "debian powerbook install" and you will hit most of
> the common URLs that are good resources.  I rolled some of them into a
> weblog entry some time ago[1].
> 
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&gt; Regards,
&gt; - --
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