Hi all,
hi John,
thanks to the new package b43-fwcutter the wlan works as expected. Many thanks
to John
Glaubitz!
Now I can report, that the iMac G5 works with Debian Trixie/Sid:
Hardware from hwinfo:
cpu: PPC970FX, altivec supported, 2100 MHz
monitor: Apple Color LCD
graphics card: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RV380 [Radeon
X550/X600]
sound: Apple Multimedia audio controller
storage: Broadcom K2 SATA
network:
enP1p3s15f0 Apple Shasta (Sun GEM)
wlan0 Broadcom BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN
Controller
disk:
/dev/sda WDC WD2500JS-40M
cdrom:
/dev/sr0 MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-846
usb controller:
NEC USB Controller
NEC USB Controller
NEC uPD72010x USB 2.0 Controller
bridge:
Apple U4 HT Bridge
Apple Shasta PCI Bridge
Apple Shasta PCI Bridge
Apple CPC945 PCIe Bridge
Apple Shasta PCI Bridge
memory:
Main Memory 1GB + 384 MB
firewire controller:
Apple Shasta Firewire
unknown:
DMA controller
PS/2 Controller
Apple Shasta IDE
Apple Shasta Mac I/O
PROM
Apple Built-in iSight (no firmware loaded)
/dev/input/event2 Apple Bluetooth HCI MacBookPro (HID mode)
Apple Built-in IR Receiver
I took Xfce for window manager. LibreOffice works fine, Firefox gives a
segmentation fault
on start. As browser I use links2, not very comfortable.
Because I use the iMac only as an thin client I am satisfied with this.
@John: If I can help looking for the reason why firefox gives a segmentation
fault, tell me
what I should do. Compiling software is not a problem to me.
Best regards
Claudia
Am Donnerstag, 26. September 2024, 16:20:06 CEST schrieb John Paul Adrian
Glaubitz:
> On Thu, 2024-09-26 at 15:53 +0200, Steffen Grunewald wrote:
> > > I will build the package manually and upload it to "unreleased" for both
> > > powerpc and ppc64. It will be available by tonight.
> >
> > Even better!
>
> ;-)
>
> > > You will need to add "unreleased" to your sources.list to use it:
> > > deb http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports/ unreleased main
> >
> > Many thanks for your extremely fast and knowledgeable support,
>
> You're very welcome. I'm always very glad to get such positive feedback! Tt
> really means a lot to me since not everyone understands that even keeping
> the powerpc and ppc64 ports in the current state they are is anything but
> easy.
>
> I understand well the frustrations with the problems people run into, but
> unfortunately not all of them are straight-forward to solve. One of the
> biggest problems is that the Debian Ports infrastructure doesn't allow
> polished releases like for the standard Debian infrastructure due to the
> lack of stable releases and the lack of the "contrib" and "non-free"
> sections.
>
> But I'm trying my best and I really welcome anyone who is willing to help!
>
> Adrian
>
> --
> .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
>
> : :' : Debian Developer
>
> `. `' Physicist
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