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Re: cheap subnotebook



Yeah its a reverse engeneering issue, 
the wifi card in an ibook ( or powerbook) is a broadcom chipset, they
dont have a kernel module compatible with linux.
So stay clear of broadcom based anything for linux compatibility reasons...





On 5/1/05, David Mandelberg <mandelbergd@eth0.is-a-geek.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-05-01 at 09:58 +0930, Felix Hudson wrote:
> > I would not recommend the ibook as the ONLY wifi card you can use with
> > it has no linux driver, and never will
> 
> Just wondering: why? Does it just need some reverse engineering, or is
> it a legal issue?
> 
> 
>



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