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Re: Fwd: Re: Airport Extreme Linux support [was: Apple iBook G4 & GNU/Linux (Debian) compatibility?]



On Sun, 2004-02-22 at 15:08, Le Sensei... wrote:
> I had just thought about that yesterday too !
> Having the airport extreme card used by macosx under mol and using the mol 
> machine as a gateway could probably be done. One would probably have to code 
> some bits to let macosx see the airport card through mol though, because for 
> the moment, macosx doesn't see the airport card.
> 
> On the same subject but on another front, the broadcom chipset used by apple 
> for the airport extreme is also used in the Linksys WAP54G wifi access point 
> ... which runs under linux. This of course means there is a kernel module that 
> drives the chip, and thus that either Linksys or Broadcom have code some 
> driver for it. It makes me angry to think they would have gone that far and 
> stopped there without considering their customers who care about running linux 
> on their apple hardware.
> 
> And thanks to the list for all the information I found here to have a nice 
> working AlBook (except of course 3D, sleep and ... airport) :)

And modem... :(

> 
> -- 
> Alain Perry
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