Re: joy. AirPort Extreme

2005-11-21 Thread Marcos Medeiros
Marcos Medeiros wrote: Jay States wrote: Yeah! That's great... once Airport Extreme works under Debian, I'll be using it a lot more! Keep up the good work... I'll be glad to be a tester J How?I'm used this is drive: broadcom43xx.tar.bz2 see this is error: cold:/# iwconfig eth0

Re: about apple centers [was: Re: joy. AirPort Extreme]

2005-11-10 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 09:31:00AM +1100, Dean Hamstead wrote: > yes good point ben and well said. > > im not sure why apple chose intel over amd, given that > sgi and sun both gave up their own lines in favour of > amd 64bit chips. Well, because of the arm chips used in the ipod, naturally. Fri

Re: about apple centers [was: Re: joy. AirPort Extreme]

2005-11-10 Thread Dean Hamstead
yes good point ben and well said. im not sure why apple chose intel over amd, given that sgi and sun both gave up their own lines in favour of amd 64bit chips. the best answer ive gotten is that intel are 'more professional'. but in the 'more professional list' i would definately put sun and sg

Re: about apple centers [was: Re: joy. AirPort Extreme]

2005-11-10 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> i have a friend who works there and since he did he has become > most unlikable. gloating about running macosx on pc hardware. > so i just tell him to be quiet and do something usefull like smuggle > me hardware specs to send to ben. which hasnt happened yet but > we can only hope. Bah, he got

Re: joy. AirPort Extreme

2005-11-10 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
On 2005-11-10 09:12:26, Johannes H. Jensen wrote: > Congratulations! Great work! > > Let me know if/when you need a tester :) Same here. I can't wait to pick up my new iBook tomorrow ;-) Felix -- Felix C. Stegerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from

Re: joy. AirPort Extreme

2005-11-10 Thread Johannes H. Jensen
Congratulations! Great work! Let me know if/when you need a tester :) -- Johannes H. Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> deworks signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: joy. AirPort Extreme

2005-11-09 Thread Hisham Muhammad
On 11/9/05, Milan Toth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello experts, > > can somebody help me to configure wlan interface on me iBook > G4. I mean AirportExtreme. I'm not experienced at this. >From the post on the top of this thread: "Now, don't check out the svn now and complain if nothing wo

Re: about apple centers [was: Re: joy. AirPort Extreme]

2005-11-09 Thread Dean Hamstead
Ah, perhaps this explains why they won't hire me at any Apple Stores! I mention GNU/Linux and that inquisitive look always crosses Apple people's faces (M$ Windows people just scowl). But you must start out on the sales floor if you want to get anywhere through the Apple Store.. they want you to

Re: about apple centers [was: Re: joy. AirPort Extreme]

2005-11-09 Thread Chadwick
On 11/9/05, Dean Hamstead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > be nice to the sales plebs. they dont know anything anyway. its > the tech guys that *should* know something that you can abuse. > Ah, perhaps this explains why they won't hire me at any Apple Stores! I mention GNU/Linux and that inquisitiv

Re: joy. AirPort Extreme

2005-11-09 Thread Milan Toth
Hello experts, can somebody help me to configure wlan interface on me iBook G4. I mean AirportExtreme. I'm not experienced at this. I compiled the kernel and module modprobe it. And now i'm at the extracting firmware from Apple drviver I try: $14:12 #1# [EMAIL PROTECTED] [~/trunk/fwc

Re: about apple centers [was: Re: joy. AirPort Extreme]

2005-11-08 Thread Dean Hamstead
have you contacted the hospital yet about having your arm and leg removed? i kind of missed the joke here. but no, fortunately not yet :-) i guess you meant they would be reluctant at doing it. as in they charge you an arm and a leg. ie heaps. those things off the shelf. and my ibook was j

about apple centers [was: Re: joy. AirPort Extreme]

2005-11-08 Thread Paul Brossier
Hi, (retitling to avoid polluting the good news too much :-) On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 03:25:03PM +1100, Dean Hamstead wrote: > have you contacted the hospital yet about having your arm and > leg removed? i kind of missed the joke here. but no, fortunately not yet :-) i guess you meant they would

Re: joy. AirPort Extreme

2005-11-08 Thread Dean Hamstead
have you contacted the hospital yet about having your arm and leg removed? apple repairs wanted to charge me au$500 for a replacement battery. which goes for au$180 on the au apple store. thats after charging me over $100 to install a $20 replacement power board (which i begrudgingly paid as you

Re: joy. AirPort Extreme

2005-11-08 Thread Paul Brossier
On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 06:01:56PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote: > Hi, > > Yesterday, the free driver for the first time received data. It was > obviously a version I had hacked up, but we spec'ed the remaining bits > now. It only worked in PIO mode, but the b44 driver has pretty much the > same DMA

Re: joy. AirPort Extreme

2005-11-08 Thread Jack Malmostoso
On Tue, 08 Nov 2005 18:10:25 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote: > Yesterday, the free driver for the first time received data. Cheers!!! -- Best Regards, Jack Linux user #264449 Powered by Debian PPC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EM

Re: joy. AirPort Extreme

2005-11-08 Thread Jay States
Yeah! That's great... once Airport Extreme works under Debian, I'll be using it a lot more! Keep up the good work... I'll be glad to be a tester J -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: joy. AirPort Extreme

2005-11-08 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
Johannes Berg wrote: > Hi, > > Yesterday, the free driver for the first time received data. > [snip] > I suppose it'll still be a few weeks until there's a driver that can > associate. And AP or ad-hoc mode will take much longer yet since we > still need to figure out what to do there. > Congrat

joy. AirPort Extreme

2005-11-08 Thread Johannes Berg
Hi, Yesterday, the free driver for the first time received data. It was obviously a version I had hacked up, but we spec'ed the remaining bits now. It only worked in PIO mode, but the b44 driver has pretty much the same DMA engine. Any kind of encryption isn't handled yet unless you want to do it