Re: iBook WLAN

[Obino <graziano@cs.ucsb.edu>]

> > Hello,
> > 
> > after I saw some iBooks on the Linuxdays at Karlsruhe, I descided to buy one
> > by myself. Because I don't want to be dependant of a cable, I descided to
> > use the built-in AirPort.
> > Now I have 2 questions:
> > 1. Does the AirPort run on linux or should i use another card?
> > 2. Because I don't have another WLAN card on one of my PCs, i thought buying
> > an access point would be fine, as soon there will be more laptops in my
> > family. But the apple access point costs 400 EUR which is extremely
> > expensive compared to an standard access point e.g. from Snogard.de
> > (cheapest is 209 EUR). So my question is, if it is possible without too much
> > of effort?
> > 
> > Sorry if I am off topic (am I?).
> > 
> > Greetings and thx in advance, Johannes

I got an iBook working about 3 weeks ago. The airport card work
flawlessy (there is support in the kernel) and I used a linksys as
access point and some other AP at work (not sure, I believe they are
Lucent).

-g


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