Airport Extreme Driver README Owen Stampflee Installation instructions ========================== 1. Install new kernel and udev rpm -ivh kernel-2.6.16-1.ydl.1.ppc.rpm rpm -Uvh udev-084-3.ppc.rpm 2. Download and Extract firmware The firmware download location is in the FIRMWARE_DOWNLOAD file. (please note, this is a third party location, TSS does not distribute the bcm43xx firmware, only points you to it) bcm43xx-fwcutter ./wl_apsta.o You will now have the following files: bcm43xx_initval01.fw bcm43xx_initval07.fw bcm43xx_microcode4.fw bcm43xx_initval02.fw bcm43xx_initval08.fw bcm43xx_microcode5.fw bcm43xx_initval03.fw bcm43xx_initval09.fw bcm43xx_pcm4.fw bcm43xx_initval04.fw bcm43xx_initval10.fw bcm43xx_pcm5.fw bcm43xx_initval05.fw bcm43xx_microcode11.fw bcm43xx_initval06.fw bcm43xx_microcode2.fw Put them in /lib/firmware 3. Reboot Usage Instructions =================== The bcm driver is a tad more difficult to setup than other drivers, and the order is more important. /sbin/modprobe bcm43xx /sbin/ip link set eth1 up /sbin/iwconfig eth1 essid key channel rate 11M You may have to run kwifimanager to get the card to associate with your Access Point. You can now run dhclient or use ifconfig/route to bring up the network.