Comments on: Fedora Core 5 on Apple Powerbook G4

By: Anshul

Anshul — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 23:24:20 +0000

Sasidhar: Did you try modprobe bcm43xx_mac80211? I am not sure if your Mac Mini will have a Broadcom chipset. A good place to go for help is the channel #fedora-ppc on freenode; they can usually help you out.

By: sasidhar

sasidhar — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 19:37:40 +0000

hi Anshul..
I am a newbie for FC7 and Mac mini,as I have a mac mini on which i have to load FC7.
I have went through so many posts and installed FC7 on my mac mini,but there seems to be a problem with wireless card(Airport Extreme).

I have installed bcm43xx-fwcutter as posted in Fedora groups.
but I am not able to find device in iwconfig.
but i can see all bcm43xx_mac80211 modules in lsmod.
Since mine is a mac PC I have no windows drivers with me, so I have not tried ndiswrapper.

Please can you help me for this problem, this is very important for my project to continue.
thanks for help.

By: Rene

Rene — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 07:58:23 +0000

Found your site in google, and it has a lot of usefull information. Thanx.x

By: Anshul

Anshul — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 16:53:11 +0000

Marc: Try changing the “minspeed” and “maxspeed” options in the xorg.conf?

By: Marc

Marc — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 13:47:42 +0000

Hi, I’m curious about the trackpad… I installed Ubuntu 6.06 and later 6.10 but both times the trackpad is brutally slow. Do you have any such issues with Fedora?

By: Anshul

Anshul — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 04:45:56 +0000

james: I doubt it. There’s a whole new black art to getting things running on the Intel Macs, though there are quite a few resources on Google which should help with that. Good luck!

By: james

james — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 04:12:11 +0000

will your suggestion for making airport work, work on my intel macbook running fedora core 6?

By: Anshul

Anshul — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 23:45:00 +0000

Wolfram: Nope, I haven’t tried external monitor – been too scared to do so :)

Dan: Nothing much more to report except that I installed Fedora Core 6 later and got significantly fewer problems.

Geoman: wpa_supplicant doesn’t work for me either unfortunately

By: Geoman

Geoman — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 21:50:27 +0000

Hey..

Having pretty much the same result as Dan, Wireless worked a couple of times, but when I installed wpa supplicant…bye bye Airport! Hoe is yours working?

George

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 06:19:56 +0000

Thanks for the information! I recently put Ubuntu on my iBook G4 and decided to put Fedora on it instead for pretty much the same reason that you did. The stuff you listed helped a lot. I ran into almost all the same problems and I was able to get through most of them painlessly with your help.

I’m still having problems getting the wireless to work but I haven’t had much time to tinker with it yet. Any other information you might have that would help would be great…