Re: Is there such a thing as a Debian blend for a MacBook Air 1,1 and/or Mac boxes in general? ...

[Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org>]

Albretch Mueller wrote: 
>  However, I don't see the wireless card being activated (its LED
> blinking) nor do I see the network-manager showing me any connections
> and, of course, if I reboot that laptop I will lose those folders.

Copy them to a USB stick? There's nothing system-specific about
them; they're just binary blobs.

>  Is there a way to activate the network card without rebooting?

sudo modprobe b43 

dmesg should show you the kernel loading the firmware, and then

ip l

should show a new wireless interface.

>  Is there such a thing as an "init 2" cheat code in Debian?

You can override all of the system startup post-kernel by
telling the kernel

init=/bin/sh

It should mount root read-only and then stop with a shell
prompt.

mount -o remount,rw /

will make it writable

Then you can disable any init startups that you want to remove,
and run

sync

and then reboot.

-dsr-