Hi there list, I have bought very recently an Airport Extreme for my iBook G4 and I am very satisfied with it: it worked without effort on the first shot using the normal kernel on my Debian Sid install. I am using the firmware that debconf suggested me to download after installing fwcutter (it comes from a wl_apsta.o file).The performance is excellent (I managed 1.5MB/s downloads from Debian servers ).
Two little problems (that arguably have the same solution) bother me though: 1) Sometimes when I boot my system, the airport is locked and gives the error: SIOCGIFFLAGS error: no devices found I have read around it should be a firmware problem (btw, fwcutter complained about "getting a newer firmware version": any idea where to find that?). I have tried removing the bcm43xx kernel module, reinserting it and restarting the networking but it does not work, the device remains unavailable. The only cure is a reboot. 2) I can put my iBook to sleep (suspend to ram) and wake it without having problems in resuming the connection (very impressive btw!!!). But if I move out of the range of the AP I was connected prior to sleep, on wakeup the card does not find any signal and I am forced (again) to reboot. So I guess the question is: what is the right way to reinitialize the card from scratch, without having to force a reboot? Thanks for your help! -- Best Regards, Jack Linux User #264449 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux on AMD64 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
