Airport extreme driver linux

 · This is probably a really stupid question, but Im new so here go's. I just installed linux on my old mac and I cant figure out how to connect to the internet using our house's wireless network. It just shows eth1 as a network, but does not recognize any others. Im wondering if A) The airport xtreme card does not work with linux or needs a driver.  · I use the latest Airport Extreme (it really has the best performance, throughput as well as wireless stability) and the only machines I remote into are Linux (Ubuntu x) based. Conundrum. To begin with I feel this is quite lazy of Apple – they have software for Estimated Reading Time: 2 mins.  · While the Airport Extreme wireless base makes sharing printers easy with a Mac, it's not so simple to make a printer directly available for Linux. Vincent Danen shows you the best way to do it.

lspci -knn | grep Net -A3; rfkill list Network controller []: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries BCM a/b/g/n [14e] (rev 05) Subsystem: Apple Inc. AirPort Extreme [b] Kernel driver in use: bpci-bridge Kernel modules: ssb 0: hci0: Bluetooth Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no 2: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no. Code: Select all lspci -nnk | grep -iA2 net; dpkg -l | grep -i broadcom Network controller []: Broadcom Corporation BCM a/b/g/n [14e] (rev 05) Subsystem: Apple Inc. AirPort Extreme [bb] Kernel driver in use: wl ii bfwcutter amd64 utility for extracting Broadcom 43xx firmware rc bcmwl-kernel-source +bdcom-0ubuntu8 amd64 Broadcom I'm very new to Linux. Subsystem: Apple Inc. AirPort Extreme [bf] Kernel driver in use: bcma-pci-bridge ##### lsusb ##### Bus Device ID 05ac

Let's say that you know how to run Linux (Ubuntu in my case). It is a priori possible to do it directly on the Mac, by installing Linux, but as. Welcome to Linux Questions. I believe the Answer is A). I know that apple uses the broadcomm chipset in their airport extreme, and the driver is. AirPort Linux works by uploading a custom firmware to the AirPort that instructs it to boot from the network. If you decide later that you would like to.