[Gllug] Linux on Mac Resources

[Pete Stean]

Actually, I've had no problems with ndiswrapper in the current version of
Ubuntu (7.04) - installation etc is painless, although it was flaky in
previous distributions.

And yes, I know it's my fault for not checking the chipset of the wireless
card I picked up, and I therefore have to use a windows binary blob. Next
time I need a wireless card it will have a natively-supported intel chipset
I promise (if I can work out from the product notes what chipset I'm
actually buying of course! I don't understand why suppliers are so cagey
about the provenance of wireless chipsets, they're not like that about
almost everything else...)

Pete

On 31/07/07, Daniel P. Berrange <dan at berrange.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 03:41:06PM +0100, Panos Savvas wrote:
> > > installed Fedora 6 on my Intel Mac Mini & wireless works just fine if
> you
> > > use madwifi - i just installed it from rpm.livna.org YUM repository.
> There
> > > should be no need to go anywhere nere the nsdiswrapper crap.
> >
> > Maybe fedore 6 is more bleeding edge than ubuntu :)
> > My macs wireless is not supported in madwifi 0.93 and 0.94 is not
> released
> > and not in debian/ubuntu repositories, so building 0.94 seems to be my
> only
> > choice or wait for 0.94 to be released.
> > I hear reports of other mac's wireless just working. I think the chipset
> > changed aruond nov 2006 which might explain it as mine is feb 07. When
> did
> > you get your mac?
>
> End of Jan 07, but I'm in the US, so its possible they have a different
> spec'd chip in the UK or something. I'm using
>
>   madwifi-0.9.3.1-1.lvn6.i386.rpm
>
> In mine, along with NetworkManager and its quite happy.
>
> > > The only issue I had was setting up Xorg config - that was only a
> problem
> > > for me though because I was connecting to a LCD TV
> >
> > Is this mac specific do you think? I can run ubuntu on my thinkpad to a
> LCD
> > TV and the only conf I needed to do was add the higher resolution to
> > xorg.conf. I had to do this also on my macbook.
>
> Yeah, pretty sure its the fault of my TV, rather than the graphics card
> or driver. There's no much you can do if the TV returns no EDID timing
> data except fallback to some crappy 'standard'  vesa resolution rather
> than the TV's native widescreen.
>
> Dan.
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