PS3: Wifi on Yellow Dog Linux?

Nanoman · 22 Apr 2008 at 18:21

Hi,

Does anyone have wifi working on the Yellow Dog distribution for the PS3? It says its kinda seen the adapter but I dont know what settings to use? Can anyone help?

Also is there any software that will allow me to view files on an external harddrive with NTFS file format?

Is it just worth trying ubuntu or summat lol?

Thanks a lot.

Nanoman · 24 Apr 2008 at 14:11

Exoshear · 24 Apr 2008 at 14:14

I know it's not an ideal solution, but I used a usb wifi dongle in my Ps3 when using the wireless on linux, worked perfectly. Although I got rid of linux on it ages ago, seemed kind of pointless as I never used it.

UKDTweak · 24 Apr 2008 at 14:20

Try the PSUbuntu forums, lots of posts on this, P.S. if your router uses WPA2, your snookered at its not supported yet.

andshrew · 24 Apr 2008 at 14:23

Nanoman said:
Also is there any software that will allow me to view files on an external harddrive with NTFS file format?

By external I assume you mean USB? It has support of NTFS out of the box, all you need to do is mount the drive. I don't know if Yellow Dog has a GUI to do this but from the command line you would just type (for example):

mount /dev/sd[x][y] /mnt/ntfs

Where [x] is the device letter and [y] is the partition number, you shouldnt need to specify a filesystem type it should detect it automatic. This would mount your device in the directory /mnt/ntfs within your filesystem - so you would just change the last bit to which ever directory you want it accessible from.

You can work out the device letter by typing 'fdisk -l' while the hard disc is connected and powered on, it should produce a list of all partitions. I was doing this last night and I found the first usb port (far left) had the device name of 'sdf'. So if you connect to the first usb port, and your hard disc has a single partition and you wanted to access the files from the directory /mnt/ntfs you would type the following at the command line:

mount /dev/sdf1 /mnt/ntfs

I hope that is understandable, bare in mind I used that in Gentoo and not Yellow Dog so it is possible the device naming may be different...

Nanoman · 24 Apr 2008 at 19:02

Thanks a lot for the help guys, tried mounting but no success, further research showed that NTFS isn't supported at all in YDL6, though is in 5 for some reason! :confused:

So gonna revert back I reckon, managed to get WiFi going though, needed a 0x before the WEP key to show its a hex code. :rolleyes:

Thanks!