Re: Using wireless on a PowerBook G4

2009-01-31 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 01:58:43AM -0500, Christopher Jones wrote: > > One last thing: I tried to apt-get a newer kernel version, and I > successfully installed 2.6.24 (apt-get install linux-image-2.6.24- > etchnhalf.l-powerpc linux-headers-2.6.24-etchnhalf.l-powerpc), but when I > logged out

Re: Using wireless on a PowerBook G4

2009-01-31 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Sat, 31 Jan 2009 01:58:43 -0500 Christopher Jones wrote: [snip] > > One last thing: I tried to apt-get a newer kernel version, and I > successfully installed 2.6.24 (apt-get install linux-image-2.6.24- > etchnhalf.l-powerpc linux-headers-2.6.24-etchnhalf.l-powerpc), but > when I logged

Re: Using wireless on a PowerBook G4

2009-01-30 Thread Christopher Jones
Hi all, Thanks for all of your help. I got things working. Using lspci I was able to see that in fact I needed a BroadCom driver. I used a wired connection to apt-get bcm43xx-fwcutter. (I'm using kernel 2.6.18-6-powerpc). Then modprobe bcm43xx, then I checked iwconfig and finally `ifcon

Re: Using wireless on a PowerBook G4

2009-01-30 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:42:10 -0500 Christopher Jones wrote: > Hi all, just installed Etch on my PowerBook G4. I can't activate the > wireless. My /etc/network/interfaces looks like > > auto lo > iface lo inet loopback > > allow-hotplug wlan0 > iface wlan0 inet dhcp > wireless-essid (my net

Re: Using wireless on a PowerBook G4

2009-01-30 Thread Christopher Jones
Thanks, this does get me started in the right direction. I tried to do "apt-cache search b43 bcm43" and nothing came up. I don't know how to find my wireless chip type; when it was running OS X, it just ran AirPort (which hid all the important details I guess). I guess the easiest soluti

Re: Using wireless on a PowerBook G4

2009-01-30 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
* Christopher Jones [2009-01-30 22:42:10 CET]: > Hi all, just installed Etch on my PowerBook G4. I can't activate the > wireless. My /etc/network/interfaces looks like > > auto lo > iface lo inet loopback > > allow-hotplug wlan0 > iface wlan0 inet dhcp > wireless-essid (my network name) > >

Using wireless on a PowerBook G4

2009-01-30 Thread Christopher Jones
Hi all, just installed Etch on my PowerBook G4. I can't activate the wireless. My /etc/network/interfaces looks like auto lo iface lo inet loopback allow-hotplug wlan0 iface wlan0 inet dhcp wireless-essid (my network name) When I try to connect with wifi-radar, I just get errors ("Interface