Phase 5 Statement on Linux for PowerPC

1999-08-18 Thread Jeramy B Smith
I emailed Phase 5 (www.phase5.de) about possibly making CHRP motherboards for the purpose of running Linux for PowePC and recieved a pleasant response. Phase 5 is a well known maker of PPC accelerators for Macs and Amigas. Read it at http://www.corplinux.com/powerpenguin

Re: /dev/adb and Batmon on Wallstreet G3

1999-08-18 Thread Hartmut Koptein
> Perhaps it was too presumptuous of me, but after grabbing Paul's new > kernel and getting sleep working, I wanted to see if I could access my > battery using Batmon et. al. No luck. > > Any ideas why I don't have a '/dev/adb', but do have '/dev/adb-'? cd /dev ; rm *- ; ./MAKEDEV adb

/dev/adb and Batmon on Wallstreet G3

1999-08-18 Thread Jason E. Stewart
Perhaps it was too presumptuous of me, but after grabbing Paul's new kernel and getting sleep working, I wanted to see if I could access my battery using Batmon et. al. No luck. Any ideas why I don't have a '/dev/adb', but do have '/dev/adb-'? jas.

Re: Lombard [which base?]

1999-08-18 Thread Jason E. Stewart
> "Benjamin" == Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Benjamin> I suggest you get Paul Mackerras stable tree via Benjamin> rsync. You'll get the best possible kernel for this machine, Benjamin> and since last week, your powerbook will be able to sleep Benjamin> ;-) (with a couple

Re: Modem and the Lombard G3

1999-08-18 Thread Sergio Brandano
... the delay, yes. I tried that also. A note on your comment on the ethernet. It is now perfectly working with the new kernel 2.2.11. Sergio

Re: Modem and the Lombard G3

1999-08-18 Thread Sergio Brandano
... I still have problems with it. I also tried seyon, just to test the serial port. Both ttyS0 and ttyS1 are dead. Again, the modem is perfectly working under MacOs. I read somewhere that MacOs should redirect the sound source to the internal modem, also in order to listen the dialtones. I did

Re: Modem and the Lombard G3

1999-08-18 Thread Igor Falcomata'
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > You need to give the modem a little tempo for it to power up before > sending the various initialisation strings. This may be the cause of your I use \d\d\n\d in chatscript before ATZ, as found in http://www.loomer.com/linuxppc/ ... I have a Wallstreet... just tr

Re: Real Time Device and kernel 2.2.11

1999-08-18 Thread Cort Dougan
My f150 has an IBM 602 in it! No porting plans so far, though... } years, though. For just PowerPC alone, they are in Ford control modules

Re: Modem and the Lombard G3

1999-08-18 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, Aug 18, 1999, Sergio Brandano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The device is there, but still it does not work. >I have an old script that was just fine with a >previous version of pppd. Now things seem to be >slightly different and the ppp daemon complaints >for lack of dialtone. There is dia

Re: Modem and the Lombard G3

1999-08-18 Thread Sergio Brandano
... modem device on ttyS0 The device is there, but still it does not work. I have an old script that was just fine with a previous version of pppd. Now things seem to be slightly different and the ppp daemon complaints for lack of dialtone. There is dialtone, however. I used pppconfig, but stil

Re: Real Time Device and kernel 2.2.11

1999-08-18 Thread Matt Porter
On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Matt Porter wrote: > > > Oh, right, right! The PPC world doesn't revolve around Apple. :) > > > > Apple people do have the prestige of being extremely noisy about their PPC > > systems for being such a _small_ part of the PPC

Re: Modem and the Lombard G3

1999-08-18 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, Aug 18, 1999, Sergio Brandano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >what is the device for the modem? >At boot time I have cobalt modem on tty00, but there is no >such device in /dev. I made several attempts with ttyS1 >with no success. the device /dev/modem is not available >as well. If you have yo

Modem and the Lombard G3

1999-08-18 Thread Sergio Brandano
Hi, what is the device for the modem? At boot time I have cobalt modem on tty00, but there is no such device in /dev. I made several attempts with ttyS1 with no success. the device /dev/modem is not available as well. If you have your modem working, could you please tell me which device are you u

Re: Real Time Device and kernel 2.2.11

1999-08-18 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Matt Porter wrote: > > Oh, right, right! The PPC world doesn't revolve around Apple. :) > > Apple people do have the prestige of being extremely noisy about their PPC > systems for being such a _small_ part of the PPC chip market. The desktop > folks have always been this wa