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Contents of README:Airport Extreme Driver README Owen Stampflee <ostampflee@terrasoftsolutions.com> Installation instructions ========================== 1. Install new kernel and udev rpm -ivh kernel-2.6.16-1.ydl.1.ppc.rpm rpm -Uvh udev-084-3.ppc.rpm 2. Download and Extract firmware The firmware download location is in the FIRMWARE_DOWNLOAD file. (please note, this is a third party location, TSS does not distribute the bcm43xx firmware, only points you to it) bcm43xx-fwcutter ./wl_apsta.o You will now have the following files: bcm43xx_initval01.fw bcm43xx_initval07.fw bcm43xx_microcode4.fw bcm43xx_initval02.fw bcm43xx_initval08.fw bcm43xx_microcode5.fw bcm43xx_initval03.fw bcm43xx_initval09.fw bcm43xx_pcm4.fw bcm43xx_initval04.fw bcm43xx_initval10.fw bcm43xx_pcm5.fw bcm43xx_initval05.fw bcm43xx_microcode11.fw bcm43xx_initval06.fw bcm43xx_microcode2.fw Put them in /lib/firmware 3. Reboot Usage Instructions =================== The bcm driver is a tad more difficult to setup than other drivers, and the order is more important. /sbin/modprobe bcm43xx /sbin/ip link set eth1 up /sbin/iwconfig eth1 essid <YOUR ESSID> key <YOUR KEY> channel <YOUR CHANNEL> rate 11M You may have to run kwifimanager to get the card to associate with your Access Point. You can now run dhclient or use ifconfig/route to bring up the network. |
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