Apple Updates?

[Pete Graner]

John Summerfied wrote:
> Pete Graner wrote:
>> John Summerfied wrote:
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>>> Pete Graner wrote:
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>>>> 17" that I'm having the following issues with:
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>>>> Sound modules won't load
>>>> Once modules are loaded sound won't work:
>>>> Can only get X to run with FBDev not ati or radeon driver
>>>> Currently wireless both the BCM and airo drivers are hosed
> 
> Pete's response surprised me considerably, so I've renewed my research; 
> I have a powerbook and I would like Linux on it, but I've never tried 
> hard because of the wireless issue.
> 
> This also surprised me, but wasn't much help (wireless "just works," 
> more surprising as it's Debian). 
> http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~unclem/linux/installing_debian_powerpc.html 
> 

John,

It was discussed (and has been) numerous times on this list. The 
original post was by David Woodhouse here:

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2005-December/msg00820.html

Since that time the bcm43xx driver has been in all the Fedora kernels 
with varying degrees of success. In fact I'm using it now on my powerbook :)


Pete

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> It has info that might help with the other problems though.
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>>> Airport is not going to work any time soon. Not even with 
>>> ndiswrapper. If you want working (11g) wireless with Linux, best 
>>> prospect is probably a wireless card labelled "atheros." d-link and 
>>> netgear have such, but of course the nice OS X software configuration 
>>> won't work with those. Probably they won't even work at all on OS X 
>>> without some work.
>>>
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>> The airport extreme (bcm43xx) *does* work has worked in the past. 
>> Recently its gone to pot with newer kernels and Network Manager since 
>> wpa was added. I can get it to work by forcing the rate to 11Meg with 
>> our cisco gear at work at home it works at 54Meg.
> 
> Okay.
> I looked at this a couple of months ago: 
> http://linux-bcom4301.sourceforge.net/go/progress and this is what lead 
> me to my statement above.
> 
> There are lots of folk who, like me, think it doesn't work, won't work 
> soon. You will find some here, and whether it does work for you or not, 
> you might like to help beat Apple into submission on this. 
> http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/archives/2004/10/12/airport-extreme-vs-linux/ 
> 
> http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/archives/2004/10/12/airport-extreme-vs-linux/feed/ 
> 
> It's Apple that chooses the chipset, and it's Apple that agrees to any 
> NDAs that prohibit it from releasing specs and/or source.
> 
> This seems to be about the best guide to getting it to work, but it's 
> not for Every User:
> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-409194.html
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