802.11g (Airport Extreme) progress?

[Derick Centeno]

Hey Paul:
As you are not into building kernels yet it may interest you that this 
public link has the kernel already prepared here:

http://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com/pub/yellowdog/betas/airportextreme/


Be sure to follow the directions.

In general, compiling kernels remain pretty much the same throughout Linux.  Here are some detailed instructions:

http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/support/solutions/ydl_general/kernels.shtml

Be sure to select the options you want active in your kernel carefully.  

Recommendation: Read the instructions for compiling kernels several times first.  Make sure you understand it.

Note: Although the instructions address building an older kernel; the same procedures apply to modern kernels.

Good Luck.... Derick.

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Paul Higgins wrote:
> Has anyone been able to get the Airport Extreme (Broadcom 802.11g) cards in 
> the various Apple products (e.g. iBook G4) working with YDL?  Someone managed 
> to reverse-engineer the Broadcom chipset, which is reportedly used not only 
> in the Apple cards, but also in other products e.g. PCI cards from Linksys.  
> Anyway, I imagine some people have seen this site:  
>
> http://bcm43xx.berlios.de/
>
> Here are a couple more links with some helpful info:
>
> http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/archive/index.php/t-87925.html
> http://digg.com/linux_unix/Finally,_a_linux_driver_for_the_Airport_Extreme_
>
> I saw it claimed somewhere that YDL 4.1 shipped with a beta driver, but I've 
> never seen the driver myself.  Is it on one of the CDs somewhere?  I also 
> understand that the Broadcom drivers have been integrated into the kernel 
> since 2.6.17-rc2.  Unfortunately, I'm running an earlier kernel (as are most, 
> probably):
>
> $ uname -a
> $ Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.15-rc5.ydl.1 #1 Wed Jan 4 16:25:38 EST 2006 
> ppc ppc ppc GNU/Linux
>
> FFI on kernel-integrated drivers (also on the bcm43xx site):
> http://www.yellowdog-board.com/viewtopic.php?t=1296
>
> I know that I could get the source for a new kernel at kernel.org; however, 
> getting a new kernel compiled is way over my head right now.
>
> For the moment, I'm using a wireless Ethernet bridge to connect my iBook G4 to 
> my Airport base station.  However, that's not really the ideal solution when 
> I need to be mobile (the bridge requires its own power supply, etc.).  Anyone 
> know of a kernel package that can simply be installed by yum?  I've been kind 
> of spoiled by Synaptic (Debian package manager), which lets me install 
> multiple kernels and choose one on startup.
>
> -PRH
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