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The girlfriends' old laptop - a Toshiba Satellite Pro 4200 - was getting a bit old, and needed replaced. Now, what kind of laptop immediately catches the eye when you're looking around? Right, Apple. Goodlooking and excellent hardware - easy choice.
It came with OSX 10.3.7 pre-installed, and even though it ran rather nicely - OSX is sexy, I don't care what you think - 256MiB of ram is rather limited for such a big operating system. When OSX 10.4 came out, the disk was wiped and a dual boot with debian-ppc was put in place.
Since kernel 2.6.17.something, the builting Airport Extreme wireless device is finally fully supported, so there's no reason to boot OSX anymore. It's still there though - who knows what it can be good for.
Machine: Apple iBook G4 12"
System: Debian Linux "Etch"
Kernel: 2.6.17.9-HamsterKernel
CPU: PowerPC G4, 1.2GHz
Memory: 256MiB
Disks: 40GiB
make bzImage
A lot of people have asked me how to get the Airport Extreme working with decent (read: WPA2-AES) encryption on linux-ppc. I've sent the configuration files for kernel, networking and wpa_supplicant around quite a lot by now, so I'll just add a lil' howto in the "Docs" section for future reference.