AirPort Extreme (was Re: FROM LIST ADMIN - Re: Ubuntu Ubuntu Ubuntu)

[Daniel Gimpelevich]

There's nothing off-the-wall about the qemu/ndiswrapper combination. I
have it on good authority that this is in fact possible to do. I have
posted such a proposal to this list before. Qemu has a system-level
emulation component that can be compiled directly into other programs,
such as Darwine. In this case it could be compiled into ndiswrapper, and
then ndiswrapper will run on YDL. There is no real reason AirPort Extreme
can't be supported under Linux in this manner. It's just that somebody
that has a machine with AirPort Extreme (which I don't) needs to invest
the time and energy into making it work.

On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 17:51:34 +0000, Cian Duffy wrote:

> On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 17:48:00 +0000, Cian Duffy <myob87 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 09:40:19 -0800, Owen Stampflee
>> <ostampflee at terrasoftsolutions.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > > If you can get Airport Extreme support from somewhere, you'll make a
>> > > lot of *Book users extremely happy :-)
>> > I wish we could make it happen... but right now, a USB key is going to
>> > remain the best method until someone figures out how to reverse engineer
>> > it. I forgot to mention that we were the first distro with sleep support
>> > for AlBooks and iBookG4s :D
>> >
>> 
>> Off the wall idea - as a company, TSS have more of a chance of talking
>> Broadcom into giving out specs. If you agreed to completely go against
>> OSS philosophies you could have a binary kernel module...
>> 
>> Either way, I'm looking for a Prism USB key now, as my x86 OS - BeOS -
>> just got support for them too.
> 
> 
> Even more off the wall idea (I'm in spam-o-matic mode tonight): QEMU.
> NDIS_wrapper. Broadcoms Windows drivers. No idea if QEMU's Linux app
> host-cpu-emulation will work that low the system, its probably
> userland only, but if not, it might work....
> 
> Cian
>> Cian
>>
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