[Sussex] Quick introduction

Iain Stevenson iain at iainstevenson.com
Sat Dec 13 21:50:21 UTC 2003


Geoff,

Have you asked the Mac/PPC kernel maintainer about the airport stuff etc?

Benjamin Herrenschmidt
E-Mail: benh at kernel.crashing.org

Ben's been very helpful in sorting out some PPC problems for me.

  Iain


--On Saturday, December 13, 2003 8:36 pm +0000 Geoff Teale 
<tealeg at member.fsf.org> wrote:

> Hi Heather,
>
> Glad to have you on the list.
>
> It's interesting that you run Linux on an iBook - I've been doing a bit
> of research on this platform as the 12.1" iBooks are a lot cheaper than
> the Dell X300's we roll out one configuration of our product on right
> now.  Unfortunately I've found that the stumbling point from our point
> of view is the crappy modem they put in and the lack of support for
> airport-extreme.  The modem problem is equally as bad with every other
> laptop manufacturer - I just thought that iBook might have more Linux
> people developing drivers for it's hardware than any other laptop.
>
> I'm kind of tempted to buy one for myself though.. I don't have a laptop
> anymore since "Frankenstein's Monster" died last year and this little
> 12.1" boxes are grabbing some aesthetic nerve somewhere deep within me.
>
> --
> Geoff Teale
> tealeg at member.fsf.org
> Free Software Foundation.
>
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