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If you get the “launch failed no binaries” error on osx try

Project>Properties>C/C++ Build>Settings>Binary parsers>GNU Elf Parser

Was just browsing the Australian Governments Alice Solar City website and discovered that the US Pine Gap Station will be helping the city of Alice spings with its Solar Project. The Pine Gap station is mostly staffed by people from the National Security Agency and engaged in ECHELON type activities, so I found it interesting to see them listed as “consortium members” on the project site. (Probably couldn’t hurt though I guess :/) The Solar project is

“designed to explore how solar power, energy efficient technologies and new approaches to electricity supply and pricing can encourage the residents of Alice Springs to become energy champions and develop a sustainable energy future”

I would just love to know what sort of assistance is being offered.

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There is heaps out there around Broadcom but this is what worked for me with a ppc iBook 1.4GHz G4.

Using Ubuntu 6.06 and Kernal 2.6.15-26-powerpc

I followed the instruction from the following links. Read all the info before starting.  From a readme: It is recommended that you extract firmware for both b43 and b43legacy  order to support both types of cards on your system.

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-409194-postdays-0-postorder-asc-start-0.html

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx/Breezy#head-e9dd193e82982668840ea301b7d5e75f12f9a534

http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#support

Up and running no reboot required.

Good luck, it can happen… did take about 6 hours of trying things. Had a good night sleep and worked it out in one hour the next morning.