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Re: Which Kernel for Airport Support?



On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 05:49:32PM +0000, Ben Hill wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 12:46 -0500, Barry Hawkins wrote: 
> > The critical issue is your hardware rather than the kernel version;
> > support for AirPort goes way back with the kernel, particularly the
> > Debian kernels.  As mentioned before, AirPort Extreme is a no-go thanks
> 
> It is an Airport Extreme unfortunately - looks like I'm SOL...

Well ... you can either reverse engineer the mac os x driver, or run it under
emulation of some kind. The other idea would be to do our own airport extreme
replacement, using the ralink chip(9with GPLed drivers) but that needs some
work yet.

Friendly,

Sven Luther



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