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TyEv129 · Joined:Sun Nov 28, 2010 3:29 am Posts:4

Everytime i try it it shows up with this:
/tmp $ mv orinoco.fw /lib/firmware/agere_sta_fw.bin
mv: try to overwrite `/lib/firmware/agere_sta_fw.bin', overriding mode 0644 (rw-r--r--)?

and i don't know what to do from there.

linuxopjemac · Joined:Fri Oct 08, 2010 3:45 pm Posts:2744

When do you see this? During instalaltion ? Which version are you installing ?

t00sl0w · Joined:Thu Jan 20, 2011 4:43 am Posts:28

anymore support figured out for the airport extreme?

linuxopjemac · Joined:Fri Oct 08, 2010 3:45 pm Posts:2744

Quote:

anymore support figured out for the airport extreme?

What version of mint-installer did you use ?

ant2ne · Joined:Fri Nov 05, 2010 3:30 pm Posts:212

TyEv129 wrote:

Everytime i try it it shows up with this:
/tmp $ mv orinoco.fw /lib/firmware/agere_sta_fw.bin
mv: try to overwrite `/lib/firmware/agere_sta_fw.bin', overriding mode 0644 (rw-r--r--)?

and i don't know what to do from there.

try

Code:

sudo mv orinoco.fw /lib/firmware/agere_sta_fw.bin

ant2ne · Joined:Fri Nov 05, 2010 3:30 pm Posts:212

Note on the orinoco driver...

In the 9.2 script, the debian non-free package includes the orinoco driver.
(this section)

Code:

wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/non-free/f/firmware-nonfree/firmware-linux-nonfree_0.28_all.deb
dpkg -i firmware-linux-nonfree_0.28_all.deb

You shouldn't need to get the orinoco driver separately anymore. In fact that part of the 9.2 script is commented out. But for those who would still like to fetch the orinoco driver manually you can still
do it like this.

Code:

wget http://computerant.com/downloads/iBook_orinoco.fw.tar.bz2
tar -xvjf iBook_orinoco.fw.tar.bz2
mv orinoco.fw /lib/firmware/agere_sta_fw.bin
modprobe airport
cat /etc/modules | grep airport || echo airport >> /etc/modules

aloys · Joined:Sat Apr 02, 2011 8:52 pm Posts:25

anything new on airport classic and wpa?
I'm running mintppc on an ibook g3 800mhz, 640MP Ram. I tried all possible solutions but always failed on optaining an IP-address.
I compiled a 2.6.38 kernel, but still no luck...

linuxopjemac · Joined:Fri Oct 08, 2010 3:45 pm Posts:2744

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Linuxopjemac, I really appreciate you doing that. I couldn't get wpa1 to work in lxde debian lenny with original airport card (fresh install) [though everything else seems to be working]. I changed my sources.list in /etc/apt to point to squeeze, did apt-get update, followed by a apt-get upgrade --no-upgrade xorg. I rebooted and everything seems to be working the same as in Lenny [though resolvconf broke my dnsnameserver in resolv.conf (I use a static ip), I did a apt-get remove resolvconf and now nameserver is working.
Next I did dpkg -i firmware-linux-nonfree_0.28_all.deb.
Then I did apt-get install wireless-tools wpasupplicant wicd. But I still couldn't get my wireless to work. I removed wireless-tools, wpasupplicant, and wicd.
Next I did apt-get install xorg xserver-xorg. I did dpkg --configure -a. Then dpkg -i firmware-linux-nonfree_0.28_all.deb. But then X wouldn't launch, but I noticed that WPA was enabled in the text when booting (This wasn't there before, but was there with Mint install when WPA worked). The fix for X was to do apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-ati. Then X worked. Next I apt-get install wicd wpasupplicant wireless-tools. Still not seeing any of the symptoms I saw in the previous two clean Mint installs.
Wireless could now see the router as WPA1 (making progress), but wicd was messed up and wouldn't do anything when trying to connect. Next I did apt-get install wicd wicd-daemon wicd-curses wicd-cli. Everything appears to be working beautifully on my pismo (wireless wpa1-psk included), thanks so much for the help with squeeze.
One comment I have from upgrading from lenny is everything is snappy as in lenny when doing an apt-get update upgrade. But I noticed that after doing an apt-get dist-upgrade, things tended to slow down and installed a bunch of extra programs that I don't need.

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try it out and report please

aloys · Joined:Sat Apr 02, 2011 8:52 pm Posts:25

thank you, i will...

ant2ne · Joined:Fri Nov 05, 2010 3:30 pm Posts:212

Quote:

Linuxopjemac, I really appreciate you doing that. I couldn't get wpa1 to work in lxde debian lenny with original airport card (fresh install) [though everything else seems to be working]. I changed my sources.list in /etc/apt to point to squeeze,....

So,.. Basically this guy installed lenny, and wicd with wpa1 didn't work. Which I knew it wouldn't without upgrading the kernel to 2.6.32. (see linky below) He then upgraded to squeeze which gave him the needed kernel. I don't understand the remove and reinstall of wicd etc, unless that was so those programs 'noticed' the new kernel. Honestly, I can't see how you have to go through all of these steps if you install squeeze the first time. Unless I'm completely missing something. Frankly, everyone should wipe lenny and just install squeeze from a blank hard drive. IMO, everything just works in fresh squeeze install. I tried the lenny thing, it isn't worth it.

Notice the word lenny in this linky...
http://blog.computerant.com/2010/05/03/debian-lenny-with-mint-on-the-ibook-g3-%E2%80%93-getting-it-all-to-work/