[ydl-gen] Airport Extreme Problem

Hal Martin hal.martin at gmail.com
Sun Mar 12 12:38:29 MST 2006


Hmm, ok. Any ideas on when TSS will complete the kernel with the driver?
Their website claims that it would be released to YDL enhanced members
shortly after the launch of YDL 4.1. Anyone here a YDL Enhanced member
have it working via the TSS solution?


Hal Martin

Derick Centeno wrote:
> Just my $.02 but could it be that the fellow writing the directions
> omitted stating that the reader (following his directions) is to create
> the directory on one's own via mkdir?
> 
> You did notice his caveat on the second line stating that the drivers
> are experimental and could "lead to an unusable system"?
> 
> Since your PB is brand spanking new, and still under warranty, why risk
> doing anything to it?  In other words. let TSS develop a solution their
> way.  And although I'm also interested in the utilization of Airport
> Extreme also (I have the earlier model PB -- without the DL drive); it
> seems to me that for the time being until TSS comes up with a solution,
> a reasonable compromise is to partition the PB drive so that you can
> utilize both YDL and OS X shifting from one environment to another
> according to what you use each OS for.
> 
> The other option, probably unpalatable, is to acquire and use a PCMCIA
> card while you are in YDL; a listing of supported devices is listed here:
> 
> http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/support/hardware/devices.shtml
> 
> On Mar 12, 2006, at 11:03 AM, Hal Martin wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> I'm new to YDL 4.1, but I've been using YDL for a long time. I recently
>> bought a PowerBook G4 15" DL, and noticed that my Airport isn't working.
>> I knew this would happen, so I set out to make a driver, using these
>> instructions...
>>
>> http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=87925
>>
>> Unfortunately, there is no ../driver directory in my softmac source
>> tree, and I was wondering if anyone else was able to get this working.
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Hal Martin
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