Airport Extreme support?

Atro Tossavainen yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Fri Dec 5 01:50:03 2003


> So after much digging and slapping myself in the forehead for not picking
> up on it on the supported hardware page I found out that there is no
> linux support for Airport Extreme.
> 
> Please someone tell me I'm wrong and there is something out there?  A hack or
> otherwise?

No, unfortunately you are right.  There is no support at all, because
the chipset manufacturer, Broadcom, won't release the necessary
information to write a driver and they won't provide driver code
themselves, either.

See <URL:http://www.petitiononline.com/BCM4301/petition.html>

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