Christopher Adkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am 07.08.05 08:57:31: > > Greetings, > > I have a powerbook 12"/667mhz which duel boots to Ubantu 5.04. The > Ubantu side currently has doesn't recognize the Airport Extreme card > because of the infamous broadcom security issue. > > As a result I'm looking for a cheap USB wireless adapter which will > function on the Ubantu side. > > Does anyone have any advice on what brands will actually work? I've > looked through some compatibility sites but what I would really like to > hear is advice from people who currently have similar systems and a USB > wireless adapter that works with PPC and ubantu/debian (2.6 kernel). >
Hello Christopher, I'm quite happily using the DLink DWL-122 USB adaptor. It works well under my Debian ibook running a self-compiled Linux 2.6.12 kernel. But it's just an 802.11b (11Mbit) adaptor, not a 11g one. For using it on your Powerbook, you obviously must also compile your own kernel, in order to compile and install the linux-wlan-ng kernel modules: Unfortunately, the linux-wlan-ng-modules package is not provided in Debian for powerpc. Bye the way: Does anybody know, why it is not there for powerpc? The source code is available under ftp://ftp.linux-wlan.org/pub/linux-wlan-ng/. I'm using the latest one (linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1-pre26.tar.gz). If you have the kernel source tree for you compiled kernel, compilation of the linux-wlan-ng kernel module is straightforward. Vivenzio PS: You can also use this adaptor under MacOSX, even though every now and then it causes a kernel panic, there. Uncomfortable, but still usable if you are patient enough ;-) _________________________________________________________________________ Mit der Gruppen-SMS von WEB.DE FreeMail können Sie eine SMS an alle Freunde gleichzeitig schicken: http://freemail.web.de/features/?mc=021179
