wireless support in KDE

[caprisundad]

I just installed KDE and can't seem to get my wireless to work on my apple powerbook (ppc). I downloaded bcm43xx-fwcutter and read that I have to extract the firmware from my broadcom card. Could someone give me a basic walkthrough of how to do this in the command line? I have the program but don't have any experience working with Linux (been relyling on OS X for too long), and all the tutorials online are unclear to me. I tried installing the program with sudo apt-get install bcm43xx-fwcutter, but it said directory could not be found. Is this a problem with my PATH? ALso, how do I find what file to extract the firmware from? Sorry if these are really basic questions....

Thanks! :D

[ZeratulsAvenger]

KDE is a windows environment, like GNOME--takes you from the command line to the graphical interface that we all love. I assume you installed some version of Linux, which probably uses KDE as the default windows manager. If you say which distribution you used that might help(Yellow Dog, RedHat, SUSE, etc).

[caprisundad]

Sorry, forgot to mention that I'm running kubuntu

[ghost2003]

http://bcm43xx.berlios.de/?go=documentation

linked from the site above(looks to be a fairly thorough walkthrough):
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx

[caprisundad]

I followed the instructions but ran into a problem while trying to add the Universal repository. I opened up Adept Package Manager and deleted too many (#) symbols. Now Adept won't even open, and when I try to run sudo apt-get install bcm43xx-fwcutter I get an error message stating that it can't recognize permissions in sources.list. I know almost nothing about Linux so please don't laugh at how stupid this mistake was. Is there an easy way to fix this? Do I have to reinstall? Thanks.

[caprisundad]

Ok i got everything to work, had to reinstall but things are ok now and wireless is working. Mainly followed these directions

http://lilandra.com/blog/archives/2006/08/02/wireless-on-powerbook-g4-with-airport-extreme-with-linux-instructions/

for anyone trying to do this.