Re: Ubuntu on Mac Laptops

Airport Extreme works, but it's alpha quality software at this stage
-- not for the faint of heart as Jack wrote.

Patience (this code has been a few years in the making) :-). I'm sure
there are a _lot_ of hackers (and maybe even a programmer or two)
frenetically trying to get Airport Extreme (aka Broadcom chipset)
working flawlessly and _easily_.

Eric.

On 1/17/06, jack jackson <jackson.linux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Bob, were you agreeing with my question that it's important for the airport
> to work, or was that an enthusiastic YES, meaning that indeed it works?
>
> On 1/14/06, Bob Nielsen <nielsen@xxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Jan 14, 2006, at 7:42 AM, jack jackson wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > Also, with current kernels(2.6.15) you can get the airport extreme to
> > > work, but it is kinda hard and not for the faint of heart.
> >
> > YES! My dual-boot mini doesn't get much use out of breezy without a
> > driver for AirPort.
> >
> > > Can you point to a How to? I am desperate to get this to work
> > > because if I can depend on it working I can have my work buy me a
> > > new iBook and I can load Breezy on it - the best of all worlds.
> > > Also I remember with my powerbook and hoary there were issues with
> > > the mouse because it used a USB mouse which wasn't supported. I
> > > guess that's solved?
> >
> > The USB mouse works perfectly for me.

--
ubuntu-users mailing list
ubuntu-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Ubuntu on Mac Laptops
    ... not for the faint of heart but doable and it seems to work alright. ... After that you should have a working airport extreme driver. ...
    (Ubuntu)
  • Re: Ubuntu on Mac Laptops
    ... with current kernelsyou can get the airport extreme to ... but it is kinda hard and not for the faint of heart. ... driver for AirPort. ...
    (Ubuntu)
  • Re: Airport Extreme and Hard Drive???
    ... This is the ONLY MAC device I have on my Windows Network. ... The USB port is for printers only. ... Hard drive support was added in the next generation of Airport Extreme, ...
    (comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc)
  • Re: Ubuntu on Mac Laptops
    ... but it is kinda hard and not for the faint of heart. ... After that you should have a working airport extreme driver. ...
    (Ubuntu)
  • Re: Networking a HD
    ... On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:12:05 GMT, Graeme Wood ... older 802.11g Airport Extreme and all Airport Express models have a USB ... port which can only be used to share a printer.) ... Can you attach a USB hub and do both? ...
    (uk.comp.sys.mac)