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Having trouble installing archpower on an iMac G5. (iwd is being a real pain, as well as a few other things) #89

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2DSBrewer opened this issue Sep 6, 2024 · 4 comments

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@2DSBrewer
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First of all, unfortunately iwd cannot detect the airport card the mac uses, but ip link can. The other problem is it looked like on your wiki that I had to use mac-fdisk, but that doesn't seem to be in iso, or at the very least, does not do anything in the console. (I know I probobly missed something obvious, and I am sorry for wasting your time, while I do daily drive arch on my laptop, I am still pretty new to all this and really don't know what I'm doing. Thanks for making this awesome port.

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kth5 commented Sep 8, 2024

The problem here likely is missing firmware for the broadcom chipset found on most airport cards. These blobs cannot be distributed freely but do have a look at b43-fwcutter and how to extract these from binary releases from broadcom.

Initially it is recommended to install using a plain LAN connection, then add in the firmware blobs after the first boot.

Just back from an extended vacation, thus the late response.

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Sorry for the late comment, but I am struggling to figure something out. dhcpcd is not in the iso, so how does one connect via ethernet?

@kth5
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kth5 commented Oct 10, 2024

You can use dhclient which is included.

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Thanks!

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