On Tue, 28 May 2002, Chris Tillman wrote: On the advice of some other Linux PPC coders I installed a PC PCI LSILogic SCSI card in my G4 Mac. It works fine with the Linux drivers. Of course the Apple OSes don't see it and you can't boot from it AFAIK. One nice feature is that you can use a native Linux formated drive with Linux on it and since the Apple OS can't see it, it is completely left alone. I.e. No "Initialize" dialog pops up. Of course installing the Apple drivers would get rid of these messages and not take that much disk space...
Fred > On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 12:24:37PM -0500, Chris wrote: > > Dear Debian PPC Guru's, > > > > Trying to be brief: > > > > As a total novice with Linux I've heard people say incredible things about > > what > > is possible with linux. One problem I've run up with as a Mac user (but > > also a > > Windows/DOS user), is drivers for PCI cards. > > > > The Question: > > Can I somehow use a driver built for a Debian x86 PCI card and use that > > card in > > a Debian PPC (OldWorld PowerMac) machine? > > You can certainly select a module to be loaded which corresponds to your > card. I > personally don't see why it shouldn't work, but frankly you'd just have to > try it > and find out. Maybe somebody already has, and will post, but the real proof > for > your machine and your card will be to just try it. You can do so while still > in > the installer environment; select Configure Modules, then try to Configure the > Network. Either it will or it won't. > > BTW, the new-powermac flavor uses the 2.4 kernel which supports more drivers. > But > maybe the ones you're looking for would be in the regular powermac flavor > anyway. > > I would definitely use woody rather than potato (install manual link in my > .sig). > > -- > *------v--------- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 --------v------* > | <http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/installmanual> | > | debian-imac (potato): <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net> | > | Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > | May the Source be with you | > *----------------------------------------------------------------* > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Fred -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
