Re: [ilugd] apple airport express on ubuntu with foss apps?

2009-04-20 Thread Linux Lingam
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Arun Khan kn...@yahoo.com wrote: On Monday 20 Apr 2009, Linux Lingam wrote: [snip] meanwhile, kishore hastily hides behind his shiny new macbookpro running terminals in hi-res. :-) In Mac OS X or a Linux variant? hehhee. ask him, last i checked, he had a

Re: [ilugd] apple airport express on ubuntu with foss apps?

2009-04-19 Thread Linux Lingam
[snip] meanwhile, kishore hastily hides behind his shiny new macbookpro running terminals in hi-res. :-) mark shuttleworth pores over every pixel to find inspiration for his next release of ubuntu. Countless foss developers join him to develop muktified slices of the apple experience. steve

Re: [ilugd] apple airport express on ubuntu with foss apps?

2009-04-19 Thread Arun Khan
On Monday 20 Apr 2009, Linux Lingam wrote: [snip] meanwhile, kishore hastily hides behind his shiny new macbookpro running terminals in hi-res. :-) In Mac OS X or a Linux variant? now, i.ll get back to making airport express stream audio using foss. Because this personal itch is way too

Re: [ilugd] apple airport express on ubuntu with foss apps?

2009-04-18 Thread Harish Pillay
Even simpler solution for the G**gle-challenged: if it's from Ale, don't buy it because they go out of their way to prevent FOSS from interoperating with their products. Curious: how do they do that? -- Harish Pillay h.pil...@ieee.org gpg id: 746809E3 fingerprint: F7F5 5CCD 25B9 FC25 303E

Re: [ilugd] apple airport express on ubuntu with foss apps?

2009-04-18 Thread Raj Mathur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 18 Apr 2009, Harish Pillay wrote: Even simpler solution for the G**gle-challenged: if it's from Ale, don't buy it because they go out of their way to prevent FOSS from interoperating with their products. Curious: how do they do

Re: [ilugd] apple airport express on ubuntu with foss apps?

2009-04-18 Thread Harish Pillay
Even simpler solution for the G**gle-challenged: if it's from Ale, don't buy it because they go out of their way to prevent FOSS from interoperating with their products. Curious: how do they do that? Some examples: Circa 2004: Ale threatens sarovar.org (the Indian

Re: [ilugd] apple airport express on ubuntu with foss apps?

2009-04-17 Thread Karanbir Singh
Linux Lingam wrote: dear all, anybody has any experience in running apple's airport express under ubuntu or any other flavour? http://www.apple.com/airportexpress/ I might be missing something but isnt that just a wireless AP ? why would you need an OS take on that ? - KB

Re: [ilugd] apple airport express on ubuntu with foss apps?

2009-04-17 Thread Shiv
anybody has any experience in running apple's airport express under ubuntu or any other flavour? http://www.apple.com/airportexpress/ The airport express card used in most Macbooks uses the Broadcom chipset (which is not well supported in Linux). This link might help you a little (It's

Re: [ilugd] apple airport express on ubuntu with foss apps?

2009-04-17 Thread Abhishek Nandakumar
On 17-Apr-09, at 2:55 PM, Shiv wrote: The airport express card used in most Macbooks uses the Broadcom chipset (which is not well supported in Linux). I think the Broadcom chipsets used in MacBooks don't work out of the box on Ubuntu but they work flawlessly using madwifi. If you have

Re: [ilugd] apple airport express on ubuntu with foss apps?

2009-04-17 Thread Linux Lingam
dear all, thanks for your responses. i am talking about the apple airport express base station. specifically, this router has a neat little 'audio-output' port built into it. here's the horrendously-cryptic url: http://store.apple.com/us/product/MB321LL/A i've connected my JBL speakers to the

Re: [ilugd] apple airport express on ubuntu with foss apps?

2009-04-17 Thread Abhishek Nandakumar
You may find this thread useful: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=192806 On 17-Apr-09, at 4:05 PM, Linux Lingam wrote: dear all, thanks for your responses. i am talking about the apple airport express base station. specifically, this router has a neat little 'audio-output' port

Re: [ilugd] apple airport express on ubuntu with foss apps?

2009-04-17 Thread Linux Lingam
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 11:08 PM, Abhishek Nandakumar cont...@xabhishek.com wrote: You may find this thread useful: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=192806 thanks. had spotted it earlier, but did not see the thread ran into 6 pages. it is quite a kludge of a solution. will do some

Re: [ilugd] apple airport express on ubuntu with foss apps?

2009-04-17 Thread Raj Mathur
On Saturday 18 Apr 2009, Linux Lingam wrote: thanks. had spotted it earlier, but did not see the thread ran into 6 pages. it is quite a kludge of a solution. will do some more tests around this. Simpler solution: before buying a product, check if it interoperates with Linux or not. If it

[ilugd] apple airport express on ubuntu with foss apps?

2009-04-10 Thread Linux Lingam
dear all, anybody has any experience in running apple's airport express under ubuntu or any other flavour? http://www.apple.com/airportexpress/ since you can connect wired speakers to airport express, and then use wi-fi to stream music to them, am looking for a FOSS app that can do that. so far,