From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 09:30:38 -0500 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: PowerMac G4 and pcmcia flash cards Message-ID: <20000224093038.A13400@drow.res.cmu.edu> References: <38B47631.6FE88852@erols.com> <200002242101.QAA01570@marcus.pants.nu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <200002242101.QAA01570@marcus.pants.nu>; from flar@pants.nu on Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 01:01:59PM -0800 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 01:01:59PM -0800, Brad Boyer wrote: > > Nelson Abramson wrote: > > > Do you know what the feasability is of Linux support of Apple's > > > Airport bases and Airport cards? > > > > I imagine fairly possible...I would guess that with the release of mosX and the > > bsd device drivers for the airport, porting them to *nix would be pretty easy > > (hopefully).... > > Well, since Lucent released Linux drivers for the WaveLan cards, I suspect it > is much simpler than waiting for Apple to write drivers for Darwin. Apple > made an OEM deal with Lucent, so Airport cards have all the same guts as the > original Lucent cards. In fact, if you rip apart an Airport base station, you > will find a genuine Lucent card in a PCMCIA slot. There was a web site with > pictures of all the parts from a base station. > > Brad Boyer > flar@pants.nu > > P.S.: The wavelan drivers can be found at http://www.wavelan.com/support/software/ > but they claim that they only work with x86 laptops. The source is there, so it > should be possible to fix for ppc. No, actually. There are two wavelan drivers; the one there relies on a non-free (read: binary only) library. There's a similar one, which I believe Lucent funded in part, available from the contrib/ directory on the PCMCIA ftp site - wvlan_cs as opposed to wavelan2_cs. Dan /--------------------------------\ /--------------------------------\ | Daniel Jacobowitz |__| SCS Class of 2002 | | Debian GNU/Linux Developer __ Carnegie Mellon University | | dan@debian.org | | dmj+@andrew.cmu.edu | \--------------------------------/ \--------------------------------/ ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/