[ale] Linux Live CD (WiFi Audit) for PPC?

[Barry Hawkins]

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Jay Loden wrote:
| On Wednesday 05 January 2005 5:16, Barry Hawkins wrote:
|
| Airport Extreme has zero support under Linux?  It will be pretty
unlikely for
| me to bother running Linux on a PowerBook if I can't have wireless,
and the
| 12inch has no pcmcia card slot to use, either. I had planned on dual
booting
| but maybe not...
|
| -Jay
Jay,
~    Yes, sadly, any 12" PowerBook is not a great idea, since they have
Airport Extreme and no PCMCIA slot. Airport Extreme is a mini-PCI NIC
with a Broadcom chipset.  Broadcom chipset == no way in hell, more or
less.  There's a petition online that you can sign, but we know how that
goes.  You can search the Debian PowerPC mailing list archives for lots
of talk about this[0].  If it is an nVidia-based 12", that's even worse.
~    For Linux on Apple hardware enthusiasts, the golden age of Apple
laptops was the last iBook G3 and the last Titanium PowerBook G4 (1GHz).
~ These have video cards that have supported sleep for a long time and
Airport cards which are fully supported in the stock kernel since way
back, which are typically the sore spots for us.
~    Sleep support is currently showing good results as a test patch from
Benjamin Herrenschmidt (the PowerPC Linux kernel guru) for ATI-based
Aluminum PowerBooks, but still no hope for Airport Extreme.  Most folks
usually snag a PCMCIA/CardBus NIC for wireless on the Aluminum PowerBook
15" and 17" series
~    Also Google for "debian powerbook install" and you will hit most of
the common URLs that are good resources.  I rolled some of them into a
weblog entry some time ago[1].

[0] - http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/
[1] - http://www.yepthatsme.com/blogarch/000009.html

Regards,
- --
Barry Hawkins
All Things Computed
site: www.alltc.com
weblog: www.yepthatsme.com

Registered Linux User #368650
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