[NTLUG:Discuss] Ubuntu and the Airport Extreme

[Will Senn]

Brad,

I love my Powerbook, and Ubuntu is very compact and nice, but... I sure 
wish they'd resolve that Airport Extreme driver issue - carrying around 
cat 5 is so Un-Mac :) 

Thanks for the link, looks like it backlinks to some other helpful info, 
vis a vis the Kernel Build Howto for PowerBook G4 (5,2).

Thanks,

Will

brad angelcyk wrote:

>Looks like other people are having problems with the Airport Extreme as well.
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>http://groups-beta.google.com/group/linux.debian.ports.powerpc/msg/ebb978e6272283fa
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>On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 10:13:27 -0600, Will Senn <will_senn at comcast.net> wrote:
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>>All,
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>>Anyone using Ubuntu with their Powerbooks (I just installed it)?
>>Everything's cool, dual boot and everything... except, I can't get the
>>Airport Extreme working and I hate to drag cat5 around. I googled and
>>everything seemed to indicate that Qualcomm hadn't 'opened' their spec.
>>Ubuntu is somewhat religious about Open, for instance, you have to
>>install your own choice of JDK because their isn't a 'free'
>>implementation that the Ubuntu guys/gals are comfortable with. Ubuntu is
>>Debian based so, I would guess that a Debian PPC driver for Airport
>>would work...
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>>Suggestions and comments appreciated.
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>>Thanks,
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>>Will
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