[Nottingham] Changing OSx for Linux

[Ben Crowe]

Hi all thanks for the advice. I will have alook in to yellowdog, as I 
have used ubuntu and debain before (not on mac) and fancy exploring 
another distro. Again Cheers for the advice and I look forward to seeing 
you all at the next meet/social.

Ben

On 21/06/2010 21:43, James of the Family Moore wrote:
> On 21/06/2010 21:22, Joshua Lock wrote:
>    
>> If I remember correctly from my iBook owning days the airport cards
>> are Broadcom based.
>>
>>      
> I had a G4 iBook, you would be right: the Airport Extreme is Broadcom based.
>
>    
>> If so you'll need some extra firmware which is reasonably easily
>> acquired, there always used to be plenty of documentation for this a
>> short Google away.
>>
>> If you go for Yellowdog I'd be surprised if there installation didn't
>> handle this, as iirc the class of hardware you have is their target
>> market.
>>
>>      
> <snipped>
>
> Again, right: Yellowdog installs without the need for a firmware update
> to get the Airport working. I had some trouble getting the Airport
> working under Debian/PPC, I can't remember if it necessitated a firmware
> update but I did eventually get it sort of working (it wouldn't connect
> to my Belkin router, that might have been down to the router)
>
> Cheers
>
> Jim
>
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