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linuxopjemac · Joined:Fri Oct 08, 2010 3:45 pm Posts:2751

You need to have a wired connection for the installation. Keep the airport card in while installing, setting up wireless should go automatically then. You could also install MintPPC using a wireless card, but that is not that easy. There is no firmware in the Debian installer that would enable the airport card to work. You would to have the firmware on a USB stick or something in case you want to go that route.

So, use wired for the installation. Reboot into your system and continue wirelessly.

rfchun · Joined:Sat Aug 27, 2011 4:26 pm Posts:3

Thanks. I've plugged it into the DSL modem directly.
It is now at the Partition disk step.
Looks like the "guided - use the largest continuous free space" doesn't work.
Am going to use "guided - use entire disk" ... that seems to be going and I guess that step will take a while....
Thanks for your efforts in crafting a linux to give older macs a new lease on life!

rfchun · Joined:Sat Aug 27, 2011 4:26 pm Posts:3

Okay! I'm writing this via Iceweasel using the direct ethernet plug into the dsl modem.

am trying to figure out how to have the computer talk to the wireless router via the airport.

in Mac OS X, it finds nearby signals and I can select one to join.

the connect and create wireless network icon didn't seem to find the signals....

thanks for any advice!

linuxopjemac · Joined:Fri Oct 08, 2010 3:45 pm Posts:2751

do you have an airport card? Can you give me the output of the following:

Code:

sudo iwconfig
lspci -vnn | grep 14e4

r.dale26 · Joined:Tue Sep 20, 2011 3:55 am Posts:8

Greetings, I'm enjoying my install of Mint PPC 9.3 on my Apple iBook G3 Dual USB. I think I've sorted through
all my issues with the exception of the wifi interface.

This iBook came with an Airport card, which had the firmware versions mentioned in earlier posts in this thread. Using both Network Manager and WICD in alternate installs, I was unable to get the Airport card to connect with either 802.11b WEP, WPA nor even unsecured wifi. In dmesg, I got a message about the firmware not supporting "manual roaming".

I pulled out the Airport card, without anesthesia, and using a USB wifi adapter from Trendnet have no problems connecting to the same wifi routers that failed earlier.

I'm curious if there is either a way to identify a working Airport card or a way to address the one that I have.

best wishes to all and thanks for your time.

linuxopjemac · Joined:Fri Oct 08, 2010 3:45 pm Posts:2751

r.dale: it's possible that your card uses the b43legacy driver:
http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43

r.dale26 · Joined:Tue Sep 20, 2011 3:55 am Posts:8

Your response is greatly appreciated.
I was under the impression that I didn't have a broadcom fireware from these:

Quote:

[ 12.013859] airport 0.15 (Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>)
[ 12.013983] airport: Physical address 80030000
[ 13.216706] airport 0.00030000:radio: Hardware identity 0005:0001:0001:0002
[ 13.223393] airport 0.00030000:radio: Station identity 001f:0001:0008:0046
[ 13.229791] airport 0.00030000:radio: Firmware determined as Lucent/Agere 8.70
[ 13.236870] airport 0.00030000:radio: firmware: requesting agere_sta_fw.bin
[ 13.384769] airport 0.00030000:radio: Hardware identity 0005:0001:0001:0002
[ 13.391296] airport 0.00030000:radio: Station identity 001f:0002:0009:0030
[ 13.397537] airport 0.00030000:radio: Firmware determined as Lucent/Agere 9.48
[ 13.403763] airport 0.00030000:radio: Ad-hoc demo mode supported
[ 13.409957] airport 0.00030000:radio: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported
[ 13.416161] airport 0.00030000:radio: WEP supported, 104-bit key
[ 13.422390] airport 0.00030000:radio: WPA-PSK supported

However, I will try the B43 firmware package. I'm assuming that the Debian specific instructions in your link are correct.

Thank you again.

linuxopjemac · Joined:Fri Oct 08, 2010 3:45 pm Posts:2751

You have an airport classic with orinoco/airport driver. B43 is not going to help you. What is the output of:

Code:

sudo lsmod
sudo iwconfig

r.dale26 · Joined:Tue Sep 20, 2011 3:55 am Posts:8

The error message I seem to get when the wifi fails to connect with the Airport card is:

Quote:

[ 105.686213] eth1: Lucent/Agere firmware doesn't support manual roaming
[ 110.976624] eth1: Lucent/Agere firmware doesn't support manual roaming
[ 116.210427] eth1: Lucent/Agere firmware doesn't support manual roaming
[ 121.423792] eth1: Lucent/Agere firmware doesn't support manual roaming
[ 126.610283] eth1: Lucent/Agere firmware doesn't support manual roaming

for lsmod:

Quote:

Module Size Used by
cpufreq_stats 5840 0
cpufreq_powersave 4138 0
cpufreq_userspace 5164 0
cpufreq_conservative 8952 0
uinput 10355 2
cpufreq_ondemand 10789 0
radeon 693951 2
ttm 46932 1 radeon
drm_kms_helper 24593 1 radeon
drm 142487 5 radeon,ttm,drm_kms_helper
parport_pc 28780 0
lp 10975 0
parport 32295 2 parport_pc,lp
sco 11568 2
bridge 48947 0
stp 4885 1 bridge
bnep 13774 2
rfcomm 37830 0
l2cap 32900 6 bnep,rfcomm
crc16 4475 1 l2cap
bluetooth 52378 6 sco,bnep,rfcomm,l2cap
fuse 58315 1
i2c_dev 8986 0
pmu_battery 4706 0
power_supply 10795 1 pmu_battery
snd_powermac 57831 1
loop 15961 0
firewire_sbp2 16027 0
scsi_mod 132114 1 firewire_sbp2
michael_mic 5246 4
snd_aoa_i2sbus 20637 0
snd_pcm_oss 42143 0
snd_mixer_oss 19030 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 65033 3 snd_powermac,snd_aoa_i2sbus,snd_pcm_oss
snd_page_alloc 9061 1 snd_pcm
snd_seq_midi 8216 0
snd_rawmidi 21199 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event 7956 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 51409 2 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer 20956 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 8405 3 snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
airport 6597 0
snd 52699 11 snd_powermac,snd_aoa_i2sbus,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
orinoco 61271 1 airport
soundcore 8003 1 snd
cfg80211 117641 1 orinoco
snd_aoa_soundbus 6669 1 snd_aoa_i2sbus
evdev 11760 24
i2c_powermac 6651 0
rfkill 18010 3 bluetooth,cfg80211
ext3 124888 1
jbd 40895 1 ext3
mbcache 8286 1 ext3
ohci_hcd 35431 0
ehci_hcd 44332 0
ide_cd_mod 28569 0
firewire_ohci 26176 0
cdrom 36699 1 ide_cd_mod
sungem 30897 0
usbcore 132431 3 ohci_hcd,ehci_hcd
firewire_core 44258 2 firewire_sbp2,firewire_ohci
crc_itu_t 4495 1 firewire_core
sungem_phy 12982 1 sungem
nls_base 8693 1 usbcore

for iwconfig:

Quote:

robin@debian:~$ sudo iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

eth1 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"SPQRNetwork"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.422 GHz Access Point: None
Bit Rate:11 Mb/s Sensitivity:1/0
Retry limit:8 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=0/70 Signal level=-122 dBm Noise level=-122 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

pan0 no wireless extensions.

Your time is most appreciated.

linuxopjemac · Joined:Fri Oct 08, 2010 3:45 pm Posts:2751

In the networkmanager you should be able to connect wirelessly with eth1. If you can't set it up, you might want to try wicd.