Airport Extreme card does not work with PCI proxying

[Mattias Nissler]

On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 22:06 +0000, Jörg Sommer wrote:
> Hello Mattias,
> 
> Mattias Nissler <mattias.nissler at gmx.de> wrote:
> > On Sat, 2006-10-21 at 22:30 +0000, Jörg Sommer wrote:
> >> OS X detects the card, but it detects no network. I've removed the
> >> bcm43xx module. Any ideas why it does not work?
> >
> > Have you applied the patch to the to the AppleAirportExterme kernel
> > extension that forces it to PIO?
> 
> No. I didn't know this.
> 
> > For more information, check this thread on the gentoo forum:
> > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-365647-start-0-postdays-0-postorder-asc-highlight-pciproxy.html
> 
> It was not possible to patch the driver of my 10.3, but I can patch the
> driver of a new 10.4. I don't have 10.4 installed and I don't know if I
> can use the new driver with my old 10.3. Are there any other options to
> enable PIO mode?

None that I know of. Of course, you could also try the native bcm43xx
driver for linux, included with recent kernels. Does not work for all
chipsets though.

Mattias