Re: Airport Extreme via QEmu

2005-03-06 Thread Ben Hill
On Sun, 2005-03-06 at 14:52 +0100, Colin Leroy wrote: > > > True, but if the driver was open sourced on Darwin, it might be > > > easier to port to Linux > > > > If the driver were released under Darwin it would make it much > > easier.. > > I think this depends more on Broadcom than on Apple, as

Re: Airport Extreme via QEmu

2005-03-06 Thread Colin Leroy
On 06 Mar 2005 at 10h03, Ben Hill wrote: Hi, > On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 21:26 +, Wee-Jin Goh wrote: > > True, but if the driver was open sourced on Darwin, it might be > > easier to port to Linux > > If the driver were released under Darwin it would make it much > easier.. I think this depend

Re: Airport Extreme via QEmu

2005-03-06 Thread Ben Hill
On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 21:26 +, Wee-Jin Goh wrote: > True, but if the driver was open sourced on Darwin, it might be easier > to port to Linux If the driver were released under Darwin it would make it much easier.. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: Airport Extreme via QEmu

2005-03-05 Thread David Pye
On Saturday 05 March 2005 21:26, Wee-Jin Goh wrote: > On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 20:53 +0100, Maximilian Gerlach wrote: > > True, but if the driver was open sourced on Darwin, it might be easier > to port to Linux. However, since no one has does this, I doubt that the > driver is available for Darwin.

Re: Airport Extreme via QEmu

2005-03-05 Thread Wee-Jin Goh
On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 20:53 +0100, Maximilian Gerlach wrote: > > Does Darwin have drivers for Airport Extreme? I thought that they > > didn't. There were only the closed source Apple drivers that are > > available only for Mac OS X. > Well, Wee-Jin, it's the same situation as with the Windows NDIS

Re: Airport Extreme via QEmu

2005-03-05 Thread Maximilian Gerlach
> Does Darwin have drivers for Airport Extreme? I thought that they > didn't. There were only the closed source Apple drivers that are > available only for Mac OS X. Well, Wee-Jin, it's the same situation as with the Windows NDIS drivers. You have closed source drivers for a non-Linux kernel. To us

Re: Airport Extreme via QEmu

2005-03-05 Thread Wee-Jin Goh
On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 19:24 +0100, Maximilian Gerlach wrote: > > Don't you think that it's easier start writing a wrapper for darwin's > > KEXTs ? Maybe you could also have some support from gnudarwin people. > Well - do you think? > Since I don't have any idea how to do the one or the other it > u

Re: Airport Extreme via QEmu

2005-03-05 Thread Maximilian Gerlach
> Don't you think that it's easier start writing a wrapper for darwin's > KEXTs ? Maybe you could also have some support from gnudarwin people. Well - do you think? Since I don't have any idea how to do the one or the other it unfortunately doesn't matter to me what actually *is* easier to do :( R

Re: Airport Extreme via QEmu

2005-03-05 Thread Luca Bigliardi - shammash
On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 06:12 PM, Maximilian Gerlach wrote: > So - the only thing left is to find someone familiar with qemu, kernel > developing, too much time and an Airport Extreme ;) Don't you think that it's easier start writing a wrapper for darwin's KEXTs ? Maybe you could also have some s

Re: Airport Extreme via QEmu

2005-03-05 Thread Maximilian Gerlach
> Rats. There goes that idea :-( That makes sense that ndiswrapper works > in kernel space. Well - thats not perfectly true. If you search a bit more (try "qemu ndiswrapper", e.g.) than you find that _theoretically_ there is a possibility to write a driver that uses qemu to load i386 modules into

Re: Airport Extreme via QEmu

2005-03-05 Thread Wee-Jin Goh
On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 14:33 +0100, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote: > On Saturday 05 of March 2005 13:12, Wee-Jin Goh wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I was searching Google on information regarding Airport Extreme on Linux > > and came across this posting on the Yellow Dog Linux mailing list. > > http://l

Re: Airport Extreme via QEmu

2005-03-05 Thread Ben Hill
On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 14:52 +0100, Maximilian Gerlach wrote: > I know. Thats was qemu is for - it's able to run i386 binaries on ppc. I > just don't know if it is able to make an ndiswrapper module for a ppc > kernel :/ Right, sounds very interesting then - I didn't read the link properly! ;-) Ch

Re: Airport Extreme via QEmu

2005-03-05 Thread Ben Hill
On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 13:56 +0100, Maximilian Gerlach wrote: > http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/pipermail/yellowdog-general/2004-December/017120.html > I'm having a Powerbook G4 with an AE. I'm more than willing to try this. > Anyone here with qemu experience? Thats something I haven't experimen

Re: Airport Extreme via QEmu

2005-03-05 Thread Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
On Saturday 05 of March 2005 13:12, Wee-Jin Goh wrote: > Hello all, > > I was searching Google on information regarding Airport Extreme on Linux > and came across this posting on the Yellow Dog Linux mailing list. > http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/pipermail/yellowdog-general/2004-June/0 >14534.

Re: Airport Extreme via QEmu

2005-03-05 Thread Maximilian Gerlach
http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/pipermail/yellowdog-general/2004-December/017120.html I'm having a Powerbook G4 with an AE. I'm more than willing to try this. Anyone here with qemu experience? Thats something I haven't experimented with until now.. Maxi Am Samstag, den 05.03.2005, 12:12 +