ibook G4 post-july 2004 model

[Trent Lloyd]

On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 08:31:21AM -0600, Michael Moore wrote:
> > One of my complaints about Apple since I got my iBook in December of
> > 2004. Maybe it's just me, but I get this vibe that Apple assumes all
> > their customers are idiots, and therefore doesn't really need to
> > publish tech specs, *ahem, Airport Extreme*.
> 
> <Apple Apologist Mode>
> I don't know if Apple would even if it could, but they didn't make AE
> themselves. The reason the original Airport works so well in Linux is
> the card they chose had a supported chipset in it. The AE card's chip
> is Broadcom's, and has Broadcom's intelectual property in it.
> </Apple Apologist Mode>
> 
> I don't know that Apple would bother publishing specs even if they
> could, but I'd put money on them not being able to due to them not
> being theirs, but Broadcom's. Apple may not be very helpfull in this
> case, but Broadcom is the real culprit.

AIUI, its something to do with the card being a programmable radio and
specs could allow people to mis-use it for generating other
communications and stuff (the idea is potentially military or otherwise
interfering), so they can't release the specs.

Not that this isn't silly, its not hard to make radios to do whatever,
but there you go.

That could be totally wrong of course, but thats just what I heard from
some wireless gurus.

Cheers,
Trent

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Trent Lloyd <lathiat at bur.st>
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