[Gslug-general] iBook G4 Wireless -- Anybody solved this problem?

[Andrew Gray]

This is the part where I both hit myself over the head repeatedly and  
also say

I
LOVE
YOU

It works. Thank you.

--Andrew

On Jan 7, 2009, at 3:28 PM, Jarod Wilson wrote:

> On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 15:01 -0800, Andrew Gray wrote:
>> Hi Gsluggers,
>>
>> I recently obtained an iBook G4. It's nice because it has 786MB RAM
>> and battery is awesome despite its age, but the wireless won't work
>> despite the supposed support of Broadcom's wireless. I've found that
>> this problem is common in Mac users and even PC users.
>>
>> The model is 4306. I can't find the driver online, and nDisWrapper
>> isn't "make"-ing properly and their sourceforge site is down.
>>
>> My real question is, since I've seen a few Mac-ers at the meeting,
>> I'm wondering if anybody else has had and overcome this problem. I'm
>> bringing my lappy to the meeting so in case somebody's done this
>> before, help would be much appreciated.
>
> Pretty sure the bcm4306 is fully supported by the b43 driver  
> (reasonably
> sure that's exactly what's in my PowerBook G4, which works just fine
> under Linux). However, you do need to come up with firmware files and
> put them in the right place. They're not redistributable, so you  
> have to
> use b43-fwcutter to extract them from an appropriate 3rd-party driver
> package.
>
> Ah yes, see:
>
> http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43
>
>
>
> -- 
> Jarod Wilson
> jarod at wilsonet.com
>
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