Fedora on the Mac Mini

After a long period of evaluation, I have decided to develop the robot for Linux. I just felt that development under the Mac felt too restrictive, somewhat like developing for Windows. This will also have the most flexibility for future platforms. The Fedora 6 install (make sure you download the PPC install iso) went smoothly, but take note to get the wireless Airport card to work you need to copy a file from Mac OS X system. Save this file to copy later after install:

/System/Libraries/Extentions/AppleAirport2.kext/Contents/MacOS/AppleAirport2

You need this firmware file to have the bcm43xx module work. So after install and your computer is up to date then copy the firmware and reload the module

bcm43xx-fwcutter AppleAirport2
mv *.fw /lib/firmware/
depmod -a
modprobe bcm43xx

Now configure the wireless card as normal using System->Network.

If your video comes up with only 800x600 resolution use this file for your xorg.conf