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I’m currently surfing with Airport Extreme on my Powerbook, running Ubuntu. This is how I got it to work on Ubuntu Dapper (Flight CD 3) - please don’t just cut and paste, try to understand it and convert it to your system:

• wget http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/contrib/ (new line) b/bcm43xx-fwcutter/bcm43xx-fwcutter:20060108-3_powerpc.deb
• sudo dpkg -i bcm43xx-fwcutter_20060108-3_powerpc.deb
• sudo mkdir /media/OSX
• sudo mount -t hfsplus /dev/hda5 /media/OSX/
• sudo cp /media/OSX/System/Library/Extensions/ (new line) AppleAirport2.kext/Contents/MacOS/AppleAirPort2 ./
• bcm43xx-fwcutter AppleAirPort2
• sudo cp bcm* /lib/firmware/
• sudo ifconfig eth1 down
• sudo ifconfig eth0 up
• sudo iwconfig eth0 channel 6
• sudo iwconfig eth0 rate 11M
• sudo iwconfig eth0 essid Vintergatan
• sudo iwconfig eth0 key s:MySecretWepKey
• sudo route add default gw 192.168.0.1

Comments: Remove ” (new line) “, they are there as breakers so I don’t get too long lines. “MySecretWepKey” needs the “s:”-prefix if it is an ASCII key, remove it if the key is in HEX. “Vintergatan” is the name of my wireless network. I dualboot with OS X on /dev/hda5, but from what I have heard, you could also download the Apple Airport2-module from Apple.com. (Update 2006-02-13: Download from Apple and unpack it with pax.) Oh, and if you wanna surf, make sure you have added a working DNS to /etc/resolv.conf.

Please understand that those instructions helped me, but won’t necessary help you. I take no responsibility whatsoever for any harm or damage this may cause to you, your computer or anything else.

Good luck!

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