Hi, Christina Boeckler writes:
> i am running sarge on an g3 newworld powerbook Which model? There are two NewWorld PowerBooks with G3 processors, the Lombard and the Pismo. You can easily recognise them, the Lombard has a SCSI port at the rear while the Pismo has two Firewire ports. > and with a standard debian 2.4.26-powerpc-pmac kernel almost > everything is fine. but when i want to upgrade to a 2.6.7-powerpc > kernel, my network is not recognised anymore : [...] > the same happens with the 2.4.26-powerpc-small-pmac kernel. [...] > following the discussion on this list i installed discover1, but it > did not help ... >From the symptoms, I would assume that you have a Lombard and need to load the bmac driver manually (the Pismo has a gmac ethernet card, and it's sungem driver is found nicely by discover). Try and run the command 'modprobe bmac' while running the 2.6.7 kernel, and if that works add a line containing just 'bmac' to the file /etc/modules. Regards, Jens. -- J'qbpbe, le m'en fquz pe j'qbpbe! Le veux aimeb et mqubib panz je pézqbpbe je djuz tqtaj!
