Ubuntu on Mac Laptops

[Scott J. Henson]

jack jackson wrote:

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>     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. 
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> 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?

Yes, you will need a 2.6.15 kernel as I said above.  You can get that 
from dapper(I would backport but you could just upgrade to dapper).  
Then youll need to go to http://bcm43xx.berlios.de/ and download and 
compile the driver.  Like I said, not for the faint of heart but doable 
and it seems to work alright.  I would go with the svn checkout and just 
follow the readme in trunk/driver and then do a 'make && sudo make 
install'.  After that you should have a working airport extreme driver.