On 17 Jun 2003 at 15:22, Jens Francke wrote: > hi, > > i am using AEC6280M in a beige G3. > with 2.4.20 i needed benH´s tree to make it work. > > i just compiled the 2.4.21 vanilla last weekend. AEC6280M works like a > charme without any patches:)
With no funny settings? > give it a try I will, but the procedure is still quite difficult: the installation kernel doesn't like the AEC6280M, as it simply stops even before it mounts the root partition, even if no devices are attached to the AEC6280M. That means I have to install on a plain system, build a kernel that knows about AEC6280M (and doesn't think it's a AEC6280R by mistake) then subtly introduce the AEC6280M and maybe quietly attach an hd after that. When all that is done, I may be able to copy the system to the true destination on the (large) hd attached to the AEC6280M, and hopefully still have a running system. If it isn't openfirmware that gets lost in the process, it's Debian PPC (vanilla woody, at 64kbits/s no bandwidth here to update it properly) that throws a fit. When I get something of a system going, I'll definitely give 2.4.21 a good look. Jeroen
