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Re: Which Kernel for Airport Support?



On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 01:33:29AM +0100, Peter 'p2' De Schrijver wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 07:49:41PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> It's might be easier and better to make a 'strange airport extreme' to
> mini-PCI adapter so you can use any cheap available mini PCI card. This
> saves you hassle with RF certifications, obsolete chips etc. It also
> lets people decide which chipset they want. It's probably easier to
> design as well as you don't have to bother with the RF part.

A, good idea, the only thing you may have problems with, is the space problem.
Can someone with access to the actual hardware can tell us if there would be
space for such a connector ? 

Friendly,

Sven Luther



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