Apple iBook - 1.42 GHz

Specs

1.42 GHz Power PC G4 Processor

2 GB SD-RAM

93 GB Hard Drive

Superdrive

12.1 inch TFT LCD Display (1024x768)

10/100/1000 Ethernet, two USB, firewire, S-VGA output with special cable

Software 56k Modem off of USB

Airport Extreme Card - with reversed engineered drivers, doesn't work though

I bought the iBook through the Apple Online Store. Since it is different fromthe G3 series, it is setup for dual boot instead of triple boot. Mac OS 9 doesn't boot. I loaded Fedora Core 6 onto the machine.

Everything works except for the Airport Extreme. It is a Broadcoam chip which Broadcom refuses to this day to release the specs in order for Linux to work on it. There are pages out there to get the firmware and to use fwcutter to extract the infor from it. If you do a ifconfig -a, it shows up but setting up fails.

When you boot into Linux for the first time, you will be prompted to update packages. Do that by following the prompts. If the update fails, there will be two packages that fail. Deselect one of them and go through again. You will have to reboot. After rebooting, you will have to go through the package update again.

Once you are done doing package updates, you will need to execute this command:

rpm -ivh http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/6/ppc/RPMS.freshrpms/freshrpms-release-1.1-1.fc.noarch.rpm You would be able do do: