iBook / WLan

2003-08-14 Thread Martin List-Petersen
Hi, i would like to know what wlan cards can be installed in a Apple iBook (500 MHz G3). As far as i can see, it lookes like a PC-Card, that get's installed under the keyboard. Any experiences there ? Regards, Martin List-Petersen martin at list-petersen dot dk -- A woman's place is in the

iBook / WLan

2003-08-10 Thread Martin List-Petersen
Hi, i would like to know what wlan cards can be installed in a Apple iBook (500 MHz G3). As far as i can see, it lookes like a PC-Card, that get's installed under the keyboard. Any experiences there ? Regards, Martin List-Petersen martin at list-petersen dot dk -- A woman's place is in the

Re: iBook WLAN

2002-06-10 Thread J. Volkmann
Thanks for all your (prompt!) help, I will now look if I find a not too expensive Access Point. mfG Johannes pgpD3LBKDZL6Y.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: iBook WLAN

2002-06-10 Thread Philipp Schmidt
On Mon, 2002-06-10 11:14:03 -0600, Nate Duehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > You may want to e-mail PPC-specific questions to the debian-powerpc list > instead of debian-laptop. > The group is fairly active and lots of helpful folks are lurking around in > there... I'll

Re: iBook WLAN

2002-06-10 Thread J. Volkmann
Thanks for all your (prompt!) help, I will now look if I find a not too expensive Access Point. mfG Johannes msg08289/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: iBook WLAN

2002-06-10 Thread Alex Lau
If you think AP is alot more expensive you can buy a cheap ( any kind ) Prism2 driver card to replace the AP. (In PC) the Driver work find and it work both way as a access point or client. Alex J. Volkmann : >Hello, > >after I saw some iBooks on the Linuxdays at Karlsruhe, I descided to buy one

Re: iBook WLAN

2002-06-10 Thread Obino
good point! Sorry to not have mention that (the first email on Moday morning is always bad!). I installed woody and then I went to sid. I use to compile my own kernel and at a certain point (before giving up the iBook) I tried a 2.4.19 pre-release. -g On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 12:26:45PM -0600, Na

Re: iBook WLAN

2002-06-10 Thread Nate Duehr
Obino said: > I got an iBook working about 3 weeks ago. The airport card work > flawlessy (there is support in the kernel) and I used a linksys as > access point and some other AP at work (not sure, I believe they are > Lucent). I assume you're using Woody? (Always remember to mention that -- ma

Re: iBook WLAN

2002-06-10 Thread Philipp Schmidt
On Mon, 2002-06-10 11:14:03 -0600, Nate Duehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > You may want to e-mail PPC-specific questions to the debian-powerpc list > instead of debian-laptop. > The group is fairly active and lots of helpful folks are lurking around in > there... I'l

Re: iBook WLAN

2002-06-10 Thread Obino
> > Hello, > > > > after I saw some iBooks on the Linuxdays at Karlsruhe, I descided to buy one > > by myself. Because I don't want to be dependant of a cable, I descided to > > use the built-in AirPort. > > Now I have 2 questions: > > 1. Does the AirPort run on linux or should i use another card?

Re: iBook WLAN

2002-06-10 Thread Alex Lau
If you think AP is alot more expensive you can buy a cheap ( any kind ) Prism2 driver card to replace the AP. (In PC) the Driver work find and it work both way as a access point or client. Alex J. Volkmann : >Hello, > >after I saw some iBooks on the Linuxdays at Karlsruhe, I descided to buy one

Re: iBook WLAN

2002-06-10 Thread Nate Duehr
You may want to e-mail PPC-specific questions to the debian-powerpc list instead of debian-laptop. The group is fairly active and lots of helpful folks are lurking around in there... I'll cross-post this for you, but definitely sign up for that list if you're going to be using PPC Debian. It's wor

Re: iBook WLAN

2002-06-10 Thread Obino
good point! Sorry to not have mention that (the first email on Moday morning is always bad!). I installed woody and then I went to sid. I use to compile my own kernel and at a certain point (before giving up the iBook) I tried a 2.4.19 pre-release. -g On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 12:26:45PM -0600, N

Re: iBook WLAN

2002-06-10 Thread Nate Duehr
Obino said: > I got an iBook working about 3 weeks ago. The airport card work > flawlessy (there is support in the kernel) and I used a linksys as > access point and some other AP at work (not sure, I believe they are > Lucent). I assume you're using Woody? (Always remember to mention that -- m

Re: iBook WLAN

2002-06-10 Thread Obino
> > Hello, > > > > after I saw some iBooks on the Linuxdays at Karlsruhe, I descided to buy one > > by myself. Because I don't want to be dependant of a cable, I descided to > > use the built-in AirPort. > > Now I have 2 questions: > > 1. Does the AirPort run on linux or should i use another card

Re: iBook WLAN

2002-06-10 Thread Nate Duehr
You may want to e-mail PPC-specific questions to the debian-powerpc list instead of debian-laptop. The group is fairly active and lots of helpful folks are lurking around in there... I'll cross-post this for you, but definitely sign up for that list if you're going to be using PPC Debian. It's wo

Re: iBook WLAN

2002-06-10 Thread Jacques L'helgoualc'h
J. Volkmann a écrit, dimanche 9 juin 2002, à 21:46 : > Hello, Hi! > [...] > 2. Because I don't have another WLAN card on one of my PCs, i thought buying > an access point would be fine, as soon there will be more laptops in my > family. But the apple access point costs 400 EUR which is extremely

Re: iBook WLAN

2002-06-10 Thread David Poisson
Hi Johannes, If the aircard is 802.11b compatible, you should have no problem using it with another 802.11b compatible access point. If memory serves me right, I don't think the iBook has a pcmcia slot, so I don't know how you'd go with anything else other than the aircard (unless the airca

Re: iBook WLAN

2002-06-10 Thread Jacques L'helgoualc'h
J. Volkmann a écrit, dimanche 9 juin 2002, à 21:46 : > Hello, Hi! > [...] > 2. Because I don't have another WLAN card on one of my PCs, i thought buying > an access point would be fine, as soon there will be more laptops in my > family. But the apple access point costs 400 EUR which is extremely

Re: iBook WLAN

2002-06-09 Thread David Poisson
Hi Johannes, If the aircard is 802.11b compatible, you should have no problem using it with another 802.11b compatible access point. If memory serves me right, I don't think the iBook has a pcmcia slot, so I don't know how you'd go with anything else other than the aircard (unless the airc

iBook WLAN

2002-06-09 Thread J. Volkmann
Hello, after I saw some iBooks on the Linuxdays at Karlsruhe, I descided to buy one by myself. Because I don't want to be dependant of a cable, I descided to use the built-in AirPort. Now I have 2 questions: 1. Does the AirPort run on linux or should i use another card? 2. Because I don't have ano

iBook WLAN

2002-06-09 Thread J. Volkmann
Hello, after I saw some iBooks on the Linuxdays at Karlsruhe, I descided to buy one by myself. Because I don't want to be dependant of a cable, I descided to use the built-in AirPort. Now I have 2 questions: 1. Does the AirPort run on linux or should i use another card? 2. Because I don't have an