Re: Airport Extreme Linux support [was: Apple iBook G4 & GNU/Linux (Debian) compatibility?]
> > > - Airport Extreme: not working, and apparently, might never work
> > > (no drivers, no specs, uncaring broadcom company). Any information on an
> > > open-source driver/work-around (with binary driver from OS X or
> > > something!?)?
> >
> > Nope, nothing yet, could never work.
>
> :[
>
> For those who do not know, there's an online petition (even though I
> seriously doubt it ever has effect - petitions are generally useless in
> militant struggles) on http://www.petitiononline.com/BCM4301/petition.html
>
> I also came across this open-source driver project for Broadcom 4301 on
> http://linux-bcom4301.sourceforge.net/, which itself hasn't released
> anything yet, but points to a binary driver wrapper, available at
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/ndiswrapper/.
>
> Has anyone played with that already?
ndiswrapper uses the Windows drivers, so there's no luck it'll ever work
for linux/ppc.
--
Eric
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