wireless extreme cards

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wireless extreme cards

Postby kamika » 26 Jun 2004, 00:46

i have heard that the broadcom wireless extrem cards
don't work with linux.

new g4 series.

is this also true for yellowdog?

broadcom giving driver or specs?

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wireless extreme

Postby StarKnight83 » 12 Jul 2004, 16:16

Right now there are very few wifi G cards that work under linux right now-the companies are being a little protective of the proprietary code thats in the drivers for thier chipsets. And as far as Broadcom is concerded they're the worst-they havent even released stats on their 802.11b chips So unfortunatly no airport extreme doesnt work right now.
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prism54 cards work great!

Postby OctaneZ » 09 Aug 2004, 15:21

Intersil Prism's GT, Duette, and Indigo chips all work.
You can check out the project at http://www.prism54.org/

Support for the card was included in the mail kernel tree beginning with 2.6.5.

-OZ
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Airport Extreme under YDL 4.0?

Postby FriedDylan » 23 Aug 2004, 04:10

Is there ANY information on whether or not YDL 4.0 supports the Airport Extreme card for my Powerbook G4 12" 1Ghz? Its basically the only thing keeping me from switching to YDL over OS X 10.3.5. Thanks for your assistance.
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unfortunatly no

Postby StarKnight83 » 23 Aug 2004, 13:32

i just checked the hardware support listing-no YDL 4 doesnt support airport extreme (reasons listed in previous posts). I was hoping that by some miricale they had either made a deal with broadcom or managed to hack the interface but no luck. It is possible to set up MOL so that OSX can use the wifi card and pipe it back to linux-though i have no experience doing this myself. any hints tips or whatever from those that have done this?
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