Re: Using wireless on a PowerBook G4

[Christopher Jones <flawless.void@gmail.com>]

Hi all,

Thanks for all of your help.  I got things working.

Using lspci I was able to see that in fact I needed a BroadCom  
driver.  I used a wired connection to apt-get bcm43xx-fwcutter.  (I'm  
using kernel 2.6.18-6-powerpc).

Then modprobe bcm43xx, then I checked iwconfig and finally `ifconfig  
eth2 up`.  Basically after a while I was able to follow the directions  
on wiki.debian.org:

http://wiki.debian.org/bcm43xx

One last thing:  I tried to apt-get a newer kernel version, and I  
successfully installed 2.6.24 (apt-get install linux-image-2.6.24- 
etchnhalf.l-powerpc linux-headers-2.6.24-etchnhalf.l-powerpc), but  
when I logged out and back in, uname -r told me that I was still  
running 2.6.18-6.  How can I update to the kernel that should've been  
installed?

Thanks!

On Jan 31, 2009, at 12:31 AM, Amit Uttamchandani wrote:

> On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:42:10 -0500
> Christopher Jones <c_jones@MIT.EDU> wrote:
>
> > Hi all, just installed Etch on my PowerBook G4.  I can't activate the
> > wireless.  My /etc/network/interfaces looks like
> >
> > auto lo
> > iface lo inet loopback
> >
> > allow-hotplug wlan0
> > iface wlan0 inet dhcp
> > wireless-essid (my network name)
> >
> > When I try to connect with wifi-radar, I just get errors ("Interface
> > doesn't support scanning : No such device").  Any advice for a  
> > newbie?
> >
> > Chris Jones
> > c_jones@mit.edu
>
> Which version of the PowerBook is it? This would help identify which
> wireless card is built in. Also, try running the following command.
> This lists all the network interfaces installed/detected and paste the
> output here.
>
> $ lshw -class network
>
> If you don't have lshw installed you can install it from aptitude  
> (sudo
> aptitude install lshw).
>
> Amit
>
>
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