Airport Extreme (different approach)

[ramsejc]

Has anyone tried qemu->NDISWRAPPER->BCM4306 Windows Drivers? The 1300 Truemobile uses the Broadcom 4306 chipset. In fact, all the PC devices that use this chipset that are listed on the NDISWRAPPER compatibility page show that the id for each device is identical: 14E4:4320. According to http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/pip ... 14534.html, this can be done with the instructions given within. Just wondering if anyone has tried it...

[StarKnight83]

ive heard that the ndiswrapper has some big/little endian problems as far as processor compatability. It was designed for the x86 platform so i have to think that itll have at least a few issues w/ running on a risc system. But i know that there is a way to use mol or its libs to get the airport card up and running w/ net

[ramsejc]

That is what the 'qemu' program does. You use it to emulate an x86 processor, so that NDISWRAPPER will run.

[StarKnight83]

yeah sorry didnt see the qemu part; yeah that might work; though im not sure about the overhead and mem usage. If you manage to reduce the qemu part to the minimum thats needed to run the ndiswrapper then i think the overhead might be minimised and i would like a tutorial on how to do it so i can try it on my machine


another approach would be to create a minimilistic version of mol for just running the osx driver

[ramsejc]

I'm new to PPCLinux. I've not yet obtained a copy of YDL 4.0, so I'll have to wait until it's release before I can try it. I'll write up a howto if I get it working.

[Craks]

i have tried to make ndiswrapper, and it can't compile, someone said on the ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net that the driver is built under i386, and can't be used used ppc, maybe this is the reason

[StarKnight83]

Thats what the endian stuff i was talking about earlier is