[Tarek]

Thanks a lot man and I am really sorry having to put you through all that. I successfully extracted it from the Terminal and rebooted, but the Wi-Fi still didn't work; I guess the file I downloaded doesn't include the Airport Extreme, then. By the way, one LAST thing, how do I install applications like this?



Thank you very much.

[vansmith]

That appears to be a binary. Simply change directories at the command line and execute the binary (./rar or ./unrar). I just checked at Ubuntu packages both rar and unrar (ie. you can get it through apt). Your best bet is to try and get everything through apt if you can. It will make things so much easier.

Ok, let's start at the beginning. Execute "lspci -v" at the command line and post the output here.

[Tarek]

tarek@Tarek-MBP:~$ lspci -v
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
Subsystem: Apple Computer Inc. Device 00a3
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel modules: intel-agp

00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 PCI Express Root Port (rev 03)
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 00007000-00007fff
Memory behind bridge: 90000000-930fffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 0000000080000000-000000008fffffff
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
Kernel modules: shpchp

00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 04)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 20
I/O ports at 80c0 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 04)
Subsystem: Apple Computer Inc. Device 00a3
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
I/O ports at 80a0 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 04) (prog-if 20)
Subsystem: Apple Computer Inc. Device 00a3
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 21
Memory at 9b504c00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 04)
Subsystem: Apple Computer Inc. Device 00a3
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 20
Memory at 9b500000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel

00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 04)
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=0
Memory behind bridge: 9b400000-9b4fffff
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
Kernel modules: shpchp

00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 04)
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=03, subordinate=0a, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 00006000-00006fff
Memory behind bridge: 97400000-9b3fffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 0000000093100000-00000000970fffff
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
Kernel modules: shpchp

00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 04)
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=0b, subordinate=0b, sec-latency=0
Memory behind bridge: 97300000-973fffff
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
Kernel modules: shpchp

00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 6 (rev 04)
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=0c, subordinate=0c, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 00005000-00005fff
Memory behind bridge: 97200000-972fffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 000000009b600000-000000009b6fffff
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
Kernel modules: shpchp

00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 04)
Subsystem: Apple Computer Inc. Device 00a3
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
I/O ports at 8080 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 04)
Subsystem: Apple Computer Inc. Device 00a3
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
I/O ports at 8060 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 04)
Subsystem: Apple Computer Inc. Device 00a3
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 21
I/O ports at 8040 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 04) (prog-if 20)
Subsystem: Apple Computer Inc. Device 00a3
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 20
Memory at 9b504800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd

00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f4) (prog-if 01)
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=0d, subordinate=0d, sec-latency=32
Memory behind bridge: 97100000-971fffff
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HEM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Controller (rev 04)
Subsystem: Apple Computer Inc. Device 00a3
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel modules: iTCO_wdt

00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE Controller (rev 04) (prog-if 8f [Master SecP SecO PriP PriO])
Subsystem: Apple Computer Inc. Device 00a3
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 21
I/O ports at 8108 [size=8]
I/O ports at 811c [size=4]
I/O ports at 8100 [size=8]
I/O ports at 8118 [size=4]
I/O ports at 80e0 [size=16]
Kernel driver in use: ata_piix

00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA IDE Controller (rev 04) (prog-if 8f [Master SecP SecO PriP PriO])
Subsystem: Apple Computer Inc. Device 00a3
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
I/O ports at 80f8 [size=8]
I/O ports at 8114 [size=4]
I/O ports at 80f0 [size=8]
I/O ports at 8110 [size=4]
I/O ports at 8020 [size=16]
I/O ports at 4000 [size=16]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ata_piix

00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 04)
Subsystem: Apple Computer Inc. Device 00a3
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 10
Memory at 9b505000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
I/O ports at efa0 [size=32]
Kernel modules: i2c-i801

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8600M GT (rev a1)
Subsystem: Apple Computer Inc. Device 00a3
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
Memory at 92000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Memory at 80000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Memory at 90000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32M]
I/O ports at 7000 [size=128]
Expansion ROM at 93000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel modules: nvidiafb

0b:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4328 802.11a/b/g/n (rev 05)
Subsystem: Apple Computer Inc. Device 008c
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
Memory at 97300000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge
Kernel modules: wl, ssb

0c:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Marvell Yukon 88E8058 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 13)
Subsystem: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Device 00ba
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 2298
Memory at 97200000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
I/O ports at 5000 [size=256]
Expansion ROM at 9b600000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: sky2
Kernel modules: sky2

0d:03.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB82AA2 IEEE-1394b Link Layer Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 10)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 248, IRQ 19
Memory at 97104000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
Memory at 97100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ohci1394
Kernel modules: firewire-ohci, ohci1394

There .

[Tarek]

The only reason I want to install RAR instead of Ark and the default one is because of this: Archive File Type Not Supported?

[vansmith]

Well, here is your wireless network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4328 802.11a/b/g/n (rev 05). Read the instructions here (note, you already have b43-fwcutter installed because we did that earlier). Assuming you are using Jaunty (9.04), you can skip ahead to these instructions. Those should work.

You can use apt to install rar as opposed to using those binaries - it will be easier to use and upgrade. Just execute "sudo aptitude install rar" (w/o the quotation marks) and you should be good to go.

[Tarek]

Thanks a lot man, I'll try that now and get back to you.

EDIT - **** it, it's too hard to follow with all the crap Terminal keeps writing and all the errors it keeps giving. I gave up, this sucks. I don't think I am going to install it unless someone is willing to remote assist me or IM or something.

[dobby]

Originally Posted by swisscow

Isn't mint gloria based on ubuntu 9.04? In the past mint versions were just ubuntu versions with enhancements to make them easier to use. If this is the same still then hardware support will be the same as with ubuntu 9.04. Or have things changed?

Yes you're correct Mint is fork of UBUNTU
Some say Mint is more stable than UBUNtu

[jeroendiederen]

I use the ath9k driver with kernel 2.6.30, this works pretty well. See my post on wireless network on a MacBook 2,1 in Ubuntu 8.10