User:Tonyr/Journal/Jul07

05Jul07
Airport Extreme New to me: Airport Extreme cards don't 'just work' in Ubuntu. The driver is bdm43xx, but special magic is required to get the firmware from Mac OSX installed in the right place in the file system. The process is documented at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx/Feisty. It requires installing package bcm43xxx-fwcutter, and the documentation therein explains where to get the firmware source files from Mac OSX.

Wireless network selection Also new to me: Kathey Sutter pointed out that when configuring the wireless interface, setting the ESSID to auto and enabling roaming mode will result in the network icon in the menu bar providing a list of detected networks to choose from.