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#1 2005-05-26 12:34 pm
- Fatum
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Linux distro for Powerbook
I'm looking for a distro that supports most if not everything that is in it. Running PowerBook G4 1.33GHz. Mostly looking for a way to get wifi to work with the airport extreme card. I do have experence with linux not a lot but I can get around with the command line without a problem. I was running yellowdog 3.0 on my old ibook and got wifi to work with that but that was just changing around some files. If I do put a distro on my Powerbook I would need Wifi to work just because it's the only way I get on the internet. Between full time work and full time school I don't have a lot of time to fiddle around to get it to work. So If it doesn't work out the box it would need to be working with minimal work. Thanks in advance for any replies
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#2 2005-05-27 1:53 am
Re: Linux distro for Powerbook
Fatum wrote:
Mostly looking for a way to get wifi to work with the airport extreme card.
Not going to happen - airport extreme uses broadcom chipset.
Only way to get broadcom to work in Linux is with NDISWrapper which requires x86 cpu.
Sorry.
You could get a pcmcia card for wireless - ask around on the ppc linux lists for a model the works with ppc linux, I believe atheros does (through madwifi driver) - I know it does on x86 (I use it) but I don't know that it works on ppc, I think it does though.
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#3 2005-05-27 6:16 pm
- Fatum
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Re: Linux distro for Powerbook
I'm on a 12" Powerbook sorry for not stating that before. So can't really get a PCMCIA wireless card. I'm thinking that maybe if I just do mac on linux I wouldn't have to reboot everytime I needed to get on the internet. The only problem with that is on my ibook I was never able to get it to work. So I'm really not sure if that's the way I'd want to go.
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#4 2005-06-06 6:24 pm
- smd3
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Re: Linux distro for Powerbook
I was just going to ask something similar about running Linux on my PB. I'm so depressed about the switch to Intel I want to ditch OSX, at least as a main OS and run MOL when I need it.
Now I really feel crappy.
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#5 2005-06-16 10:55 am
- laughinol
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- Registered: 2003-09-20
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Re: Linux distro for Powerbook
that's rediculous. you're depressed over a corporate move ? wow. that's sad. depressing even.
so suddenly your hardware and software just has no point of existing ? wow.
for the reasonable question:
YellowDogLinux, Fedora, Gentoo, Debian, prolly a few hundred other distros do a fine job on ppc. Oh, they do a fine job on amd, intel, arm, amd_64, ppc, and a few other arch's too, so you don't have to get depressed about that either. 
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