CRUX PPC

author: Teldec
updated by: Krono

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Airport Extreme How-TO

This How-To describes how to get Airport Extreme working on CRUX PPC .

1. You must configure kernel to use b43 or b43legacy. Download a 2.6.24 or newer kernel

2. When configuring the kernel, enable:

      Networking -->
           <M>   Generic IEEE 802.11 Networking Stack (mac80211)
           [*]       Enable LED triggers (if your card has LEDs)

      Device Drivers --> Network device support --> Wireless LAN
           [*] Wireless LAN (IEEE 802.11)
           <M>   Broadcom BCM43xx wireless support (mac80211 stack)
           [*]          Broadcom 43xx PCMCIA device support (EXPERIMENTAL)
           [*]          Broadcom 43xx debugging
           <M>   Broadcom 43xx-legacy wireless support (mac80211 stack)
           [*]          Broadcom 43xx-legacy debugging

N.B.: Usually you must use only the normal driver, but if you have an old wi-fi card as 4306 you must use the legacy one.

3. Build the kernel as usual

# make all
# make modules_install
# cp vmlinux /boot/vmlinux
# cp System.map /boot/System.map

4. install b43-fwcutter with your port manager (as ilenia)

# ilenia -U b43-fwcutter

5. Get firmware from http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#device_firmware_installation

6. Cut and install the firmware

# b43-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware wl_apsta.o

7. To use the driver, we'll insert the module first

# modprobe b43

8. Coding

8.1 Install wpa_supplicant via port:

  
# ilenia -U wpa_supplicant

8.2 Run wpa_passphrase

# wpa_passphrase SSID Password

you will get such as:

network={ 
    ssid=""
    #psk=""
    psk=
}

8.3 Edit /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf

# vim /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf

add

ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
eapol_version=1
ap_scan=2
network={
    ssid="SSID"
    proto=WPA
    scan_ssid=1
    key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
    pairwise=TKIP
    group=TKIP CCMP
    psk=
}

8.4 Run wpa_supplicant

# wpa_supplicant -w -i wlan0 -D wext -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -B

Now you should be able to use wlan!