It was easy for me, since my network is open. The "mount" icon on the desktop makes this easy.Ĭlick the "connect to the internet by network interface." optionġ1) Click the "ndiswrapper" button, then browse to and load the driver fileġ2) It should load successfully, and show a new interface on the network wizard - "wlan0"ġ3) Click the "wlan0" button and configure the interface. For me, I have an NTFS partition on the internal HD and I put the driver there, so I mount it as /mnt/hda3 within puppy.
keyboard layout, screen resolution, etc.Ħ) If required, mount the disk that has the driver on it. The file you're interested in is bcmwl5.inf - this is the file you will load using ndiswrapper later on.ģ) Put puppy disk in drive, reboot with option key held downĤ) Select the puppy disk from bootcamp (shows up as a CD with "windows" as the description)ĥ) Choose defaults for startup items, i.e. Unrar it to expose the actual driver files. I'll start from scratch:ġ) Download and burn latest disk image (puppy-4.00-k2.6.21.7-seamonkey.iso)Ģ) Get the broadcomXPinstall.exe file off the Mac OS X Panther install disk and put it somewhere on your filesystem that will be visible to puppy. I know the hardware is functionable, since I'm using it right now (booted in OSX) to post this message. I have one, but of course it's at my office right now so I can't try it tonight.Īny thoughts appreciated. It loaded successfully, but still did not detect the wireless card.Īnyone get an airport extreme card to work under puppy? Hopefully on a Macbook Air? If not, anyone have thoughts on the next step I could try? Would it make sense to find a Windows driver for the wireless card, then use ndiswrapper to run it?Īlternately, I suppose I could try using the USB ethernet adapter Apple sells for the Air.
So, using the Connect utility on the desktop in puppy, I manually loaded the bcm43xx package. The system booted beautifully, but it did not automatically detect the built in airport extreme card in the Air, which according to System Profiler (in OSX) is based on the Broadcom 43xx chipset. I should note that this is my first attempt at using puppy - or any Linux distro on this laptop - though I've used other Linux distros on other hardware.
This afternoon I downloaded the latest iso (puppy-4.00-k2.6.21.7-seamonkey.iso), burned a disk, and booted my macbook air from it.
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