Hi all! I bought an ibook (M8597) last week intending to install Woody solely ;-).
I installed a minimal system with Woody's rescue-discs. As you know, this installation has a working 2.2.20-pmac kernel with it. For further installing (I just own a 56k-modem) I tried to get connected via my working Woody/G4 without success since two days. As I run Woody with my G4 and a 2.4.18-ben0 I tried to compile it for my ibook as well to rule out any problems with new hardware ?-/. Nope - I tried a lot of different settings resulting all in a kernel-panic. =8-( Last I see is something concerning NET 4. Therefore I would peg somebody out here with a working 2.4.18 or similar on a recent ibook (500) to send me her's/his' config-xxx, cause I don't find my error(s). Despite that, there seems to be a problem in recognizing the ethernet-card correctly with my config. (GMAC=y, lastly BMAC=y) I'm able to ping from my G4 to the ibook but not from the ibook(192.168.1.10) to the G4 (192.168.1.1) via eth0. Here I found following dmesg with the ibook/2.2.20: -----snip------- ..... eth0: GMAC at 00:03:93:77:15:de, driver v1.3k2 3c59x.c 18Feb01 Donald Becker and others http://www.scykd.com/.... ..... ..... eth9 PHY ID: 0x004061e4 eth0: Warning ! Unknown PHY ID 0x004061e4 ! Link state change, pyh_status: 0x782d full_duplex: 0, speed: 10 ----snap------ What does that warning mean? On my ibook ifconfig eth0 gives the following: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00.03:93:77:15:DE inet addr:192.168.1.10 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask 255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:9 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:450 (450.0 b) TX bytes:3058 (2.9 KiB) Interrupt:41 route -n shows: Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 0.0.0.0 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 ping results in 100% loss (-((. I didn't find anything about GMAC in the Ethernet-HOWTO. In the Apple-Developer-Notes I couldn't see any difference between ibooks Oct01 and Jan02. So I'm absolutely clueless how to install my ibook. Any hints, recommendations, readings, help would be phantastic. Thanks for your patience & help and have a good time -- M.f.G. Georg Koss mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
