On mer, 2003-12-31 at 17:15, vinai wrote: > Okay - so we're SOL if we go with Apple's 802.11g solution as far as > Linux support goes, as Broadcom does not want their driver specs "out > in the wild" > > But what about other mini-PCI cards ? Googling for "mini PCI 802.11g" > gave the company "Netgate" as the 2nd or 3rd option. And on this page: > > http://www.netgate.com/3054AriesMP.html > > the card is listed as being supported by one of the Linux WIFI drivers > (and heck, even a BSD driver). My question is, besides twiddling with > the driver to get it to work under PPC, what would be needed to get a > card like this working in an iBook G4, or any other laptop with a mini > PCI slot ?
The first question is: Would the card fit into an iBook or PowerBook ? I suspect that Apple's slot are not exactly mini-PCI... Beside this, I don't see any reason why it woudln't work. Hub -- "<erno> hm. I've lost a machine.. literally _lost_. it responds to ping, it works completely, I just can't figure out where in my apartment it is." -- http://www.bash.org/?5273
