Airport on a G5 Mac

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Airport on a G5 Mac

Postby blockrocker » 13 Aug 2013, 13:44

Hi!

I'm trying to get airport to work on a G5 Power PC Mac that just got Yellow Dog Linux on it.

I'm trying to follow some instructions I found on doing just that, but as a total Linux newbie I get stuck in the part in which the instructions tell me to download some new software files. I can't download anything on that Mac because Airport is my only way to internet on it. I can access internet on other computers and transfer files to the mac with a usb stick. But how should I reflect that in the terminal code of the tutorial? So how should the code below get changed so that I can install the files in question from a usb stick instead of internet?

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Download, extract and build b43-fwcutter software version 011, which will be used to extract the Broadcom drivers:
wget http://bu3sch.de/b43/fwcutter/b43-fwcutter-011.tar.bz2 [ENTER]
tar xjf b43-fwcutter-011.tar.bz2 [ENTER]
cd b43-fwcutter-011 [ENTER]
make [ENTER]
The make command above should generate output similar to the following:   cc -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -std=c99 -Wall -pedantic -D_BSD_\
SOURCE-DFWCUTTER_VERSION_=006   -c -o fwcutter.o fwcutter.c
   cc -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -std=c99 -Wall -pedantic -D_BSD_\
SOURCE-DFWCUTTER_VERSION_=006   -c -o md5.o md5.c
   cc -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -std=c99 -Wall -pedantic -D_BSD_\
SOURCE-DFWCUTTER_VERSION_=006 -o bcm43xx-fwcutter fwcutter.o md5.o
... and you should be left with a binary executeable called b43-fwcutter.
Type:
cd .. [ENTER]
Download and use fwcutter software to extract the Broadcom proprietary driver:
wget http://mirror2.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.tar.bz2 [ENTER]
tar xjf broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.tar.bz2 [ENTER]
b43-fwcutter-011/b43-fwcutter -w "/lib/firmware" broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5/driver/wl_apsta_mimo.o [ENTER]
The b43 within the /lib/firmware directory should contain files:   [root@localhost ~]$ ll /lib/firmware/ [ENTER]
   a0g0bsinitvals4.fw
   a0g0bsinitvals5.fw
   a0g0bsinitvals9.fw
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Re: Airport on a G5 Mac

Postby gom » 15 May 2015, 13:21

Hello,

You should get http://bu3sch.de/b43/fwcutter/b43-fwcutter-011.tar.bz2 onto the usb stick

Then copy the file in the working directory and skip the wget line and execute the others.
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