As I’ve mentioned in other posts, I have the Airport Extreme wireless card in my Apple iBook G4 working. I also mentioned, however, that I had to run through a certain process to get it to come up and connect to the network. At the time I originally posted on this subject, I could not get any graphical configuration program to work with it. Instead, I wrote a script and used hotkeys to implement it. That is good, as long as I am only going to and from work, but when I go other places, I’d have to make new scripts.
Anyway, problem solved. NetworkManager does the trick. Now, before you say, “You dork, NetworkManger isn’t new,” I know that, but I never got it to work until I read a post on the ubuntu forums suggesting to comment out everything in: /etc/network/interfaces [EDIT: Comment out only the devices you want NetworkManager to manage. In other words, don't comment out the lo (lookback) device. You'll run into problems.]
For those of you new to GNU/Linux, you can comment out lines in a configuration file by putting a # sign in front of them.
Anyway, on Kubuntu Dapper, I simply installed KNetworkManager (an Opensuse project, KDE frontend for NetworkManager).
As soon as I installed it and commented out the above-mentioned file, it detected wireless networks and allowed me to connect effortlessly.
The other problem I faced, however, is that the wireless interface is down after resuming from Suspend-to-RAM. To fix that, I found this blog post and installed this modified version of the fellow’s script. [make sure to change the interface name from "eth1" to whatever yours is...you can run ifconfig to find out.]
Now, wherever I go, I can effortlessly connect to wireless networks. It remembers the networks you’ve connected to and saves the important info, so you can connect automatically the next time.
On another related note, I installed Kpowersave, another Opensuse project which is much better than Klaptop, in my opinion.
GNU/Linux on the the laptop has arrived, folks.
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Assalamu ‘Alaykum
I was wondering, when you got your airport extreme working, did it work as b or g?
wa ‘alaikumussalaam
Interestingly, it always sits right at 35 Mb/s. Is that b or g…or somewhere in between?
Maybe it’s where your router is?
I dunno much about wireless except that mine is operating as b!!!!
Well for the internet it doesn’t really matter because I only have 256k download
*sigh*
assalamu ‘alaykum