Quoting Phil Fraering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Well, it seems that today was the day my new iBook came in, > finally. > > 64 Megs Ram, 20 Gig Hard drive, and (of course) Blue, not Lime Green. > > I thought I had paid enough attention during Hadess's experience > installing on his to handle the situation without problems. > > Boy, was I wrong... > > Anyway, I got through the initial base install easily enough, except > for the minor problem that I now have the ethernet set up. I am not > sure I wanted the ethernet set up... does anyone have any tips on > how I should uninstall the ethernet drivers, and host information? > I removed the line from /etc/hosts; where else do I have to do some > work? Since I don't really have a network set up at work, the interface > is useless to me. > > (This may change in the future. I'm thinking of setting up a used PC > as a server). > > I think this was part of the cause of my later problems... > > Then it got to the part where I had to choose and pick applications. > The CD's I got, from www.linux-cd.com (I think), didn't seem to interact > very well with the ibook's cdrom drive. I had a lot of errors when > running > dselect.
Well, this is kinda normal. That's not a big problem, use cdrom_speed if you can find it (it is on freshmeat but the link seems dead), and set the speed to x8 and it should be ok. > I began to think that upgrading the kernel would help a little, (also > because X wasn't working out of the box, and I knew that I had to > upgrade > the kernel and get the XFree 4.0 debs from somewhere (where?)) > so I tried to configure ppp so I could get a fresh kernel and > X. > > That was when things got wierd: ppp would connect, but I couldn't > _get_ anywhere. It couldn't find any addresses, or anything like that. > > I then tried "ifconfig eth0 down", and it didn't help; neither did > setting ppp to promiscuous; neither did specifying the nameserver > in resolv.conf. > > I was doubly hampered by the fact that when I try to connect a second > time with ppp, after disconnecting the first time, the modem wouldn't > work. It only worked the first time after each reboot. That's a known problem, compile macserial as a module and remove and insert it when you want to reconnect. > I'm at my home x86 box right now, and here I have both net access, _and_ > what's more I have borrowed a CD burner from a co-worker. I can download > here, burn onto a CD-R, and hopefully read it on the iBook. (I have > imation > CDR's, and I hope they'll work better than whatever brand of CDR the > other > guys were using). > > I guess the first step is to get a new kernel, then the new Xforce debs, > and finally to get rid of eth0 for the moment, and get the modem > working, > so I can overcome the fact that some stuff didn't appear to install > thanks > to the CD's I got via mail order. (I may have to do some sort of > dependency > consistency check on the system; that's apt-get check, right?) Whatever your kernel, you'd better not use a devel one if you plan to use your ethernet card. A bug in the driver does so that all transmitted packets are the wrong size or something and they all appear as errors... resulting in a 50 bytes/sec speed. Without the bug it goes up to 4 megs a second... > Does anyone have any ideas? I was going to get the kernel source at > kernel.xorsis.net, probably the bitkeeper development tree. (I'm > getting it now from ftp.fsmlabs.com, because there was something > screwy about the net setup at xorsis). If I should use the Paulus > kernel instead, let me know... If you have any question, mail me, I'd be glad to help if I can. Cheers /Hadess http://hadess.net
