[ILUG] Slightly OT - Linux PPC CD's or DVD's

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Martin List-Petersen (martin+ilug at list-petersen.net):

> As far as I know, they were ported from BSD, not running on a wrapper,
> but I haven't looked at the source code, so I wouldn't be able to say
> that for sure. What I know is, that the Linux driver actively is being
> developed and the HAL is unavoidable due to FCC regulations (but that is
> a completely different discussion).

I'd heard that prism54 variants are the only modern (802.11g-capable)
wireless cards for which there are completely open-source drivers.  (In
that case, you still need to lob the equivalent of a firmware into it
at boot time, but it's OS-neutral.)

If that's available in MiniPCI form factor, then it might be a solution
for owners of recent iBooks.  (Mine has an Orinoco, so I have no
problem, as long as I'm happy with 802.11b)

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