Re: ethernet but ppp fails (was install woes)

2000-09-03 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 06:26:23PM -0700, Taro Fukunaga wrote: > Well I gave up on this one and set up anon ftp. But for some reason I > cannot go beyond my ethernet. pon dials and ifconfig reports that I am > connected. But all attempts to ping outside go towards my ethernet. So > apt-config can't

ethernet but ppp fails (was install woes)

2000-09-03 Thread Taro Fukunaga
Well I gave up on this one and set up anon ftp. But for some reason I (Bcannot go beyond my ethernet. pon dials and ifconfig reports that I am (Bconnected. But all attempts to ping outside go towards my ethernet. So (Bapt-config can't use an outside ftp server. The other computer I am (Bconnect

Re: Samba on PPC

2000-09-03 Thread Brendan J Simon
Justin McKillican wrote: > I have it running on debian potato/ppc as well as woody/x86 (can't remember > if i tried it for woody, might of been netatalk). > > got any logs or errors messages you could look at? I've got it working now. I needed to run smbpasswd. Brendan Simon.

install woes

2000-09-03 Thread Taro Fukunaga
I've succeeded in installing the base system. Why doesn't the installer (Blet me specify a non-anonymous ftp server for install? Is there a way to (Bset this up? (B (BThanks, (B (BTaro

Re: touble making Power Mac 7200 boot directly into Linux

2000-09-03 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 08:33:51PM +0200, Michael Lyngbøl wrote: > > 2.2.15 is fine with me. so long as you have no untrusted local users... (huge security hole) > I'm still to figure out why 2.2.16+ won't boot?! I suppose it's just > broken. if you have a kernel hacker hat put it on and look

Re: Supported screenmode?

2000-09-03 Thread Michel Dänzer
Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > BTW, I assume you'll want HAM8 in that mode as well soon? :-) Oh, Geert, you volunteer for writing the necessary shadowfb code? :) BTW someone (Kars de Jong) mentioned working on a dedicated Amiga driver (with Blitter acceleration? :) some months ago, any idea what ca

Re: Supported screenmode?

2000-09-03 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Michel [iso-8859-1] Dänzer wrote: > Björn Johansson wrote: > > Is the screenmode PAL:lowres(320x256) supported by the X-server(Xfree86)? > > In 3.3.x: yes. In 4.x: not yet probably. I'm currently working on it. > > > If it is, how do I change it in my XF86Config file? By the w

Re: touble making Power Mac 7200 boot directly into Linux

2000-09-03 Thread Michael Lyngbøl
On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 08:33:51PM +0200, Michael Lyngbøl wrote: [cut] > Thank you everybody who has helped me getting this box up and running! > > I'll summ up my experiences on a web page. More to come. I've put up: http://lyngbol.dk/linux/debian/powerpc-install.html Comments, questions, etc

Re: official kernel tree?

2000-09-03 Thread Sergio Brandano
Many thanks, Sergio

Re: touble making Power Mac 7200 boot directly into Linux

2000-09-03 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> >I'm still to figure out why 2.2.16+ won't boot?! I suppose it's just >broken. I'm interested to know if my 2.2.17pre20 on ppclinux.apple.com/~benh (binaries posted today) also fails to boot your machine, and and which point in boot does it stop ? Ben.

Re: touble making Power Mac 7200 boot directly into Linux

2000-09-03 Thread Michael Lyngbøl
On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 12:31:09AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: [sorry for my late reply on this] > > Doh! It is /vmlinux - now I end up here: > > > > Second-stage QUIK loader > > boot: > > Starting at 0 > > opening display /[EMAIL PROTECTED] failed > > this seems to be typical and non-fatal. (i

Re: install .deb packages

2000-09-03 Thread Michel Dänzer
Daniel Holzkenner wrote: > i installed the base2_2.tgz package on my HD > how can i do to install the rest of the files (.deb) packages please ? > i don't have CDROM and i don't have FTP or HTTP connection > all .deb files are on my HD (i leeched the /binary-powerpc dir) > but i dunno how i can us

Re: touble making Power Mac 7200 boot directly into Linux

2000-09-03 Thread James Waterhouse
Hi Michael, I'm also running debian on a 7200. Unlike Adam but like Ethan's friend, the last kernel I could got running was 2.2.14. I have tried 2.2.15 and 2.2.16 and neither would work. I have yet to compile my own kernel though so maybe something will be different there. I have tried a ke

trouble booting performa 6400

2000-09-03 Thread Jacob Kuntz
after going through the install process several times, i still can't get potato to boot from the disk. i'm using boot-floppy-hfs.img, and an ide disk. i've installed on intel hundreds of times, and quite a few on sparc, but this is my first experience of any kind with a mac. any idea what's wrong?

Re: official kernel tree?

2000-09-03 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> >Rather convincing, how can I get it via rsync? > I think there are mirrors on penguinppc.org. Ben.

Re: official kernel tree?

2000-09-03 Thread Michel Dänzer
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > >> For 2.4, I suggest you use the bitkeeper tree. > > > >I remember reading somewhere that it's mainly for PReP/CHRP while pmac-devel > >was supposed to be for PowerMacs. What's the advantage of bitkeeper for > >PowerMac users? > > pmac-devel is Paul's tree. Whil

Re: official kernel tree?

2000-09-03 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
>> For 2.4, I suggest you use the bitkeeper tree. > >I remember reading somewhere that it's mainly for PReP/CHRP while pmac-devel >was supposed to be for PowerMacs. What's the advantage of bitkeeper for >PowerMac users? pmac-devel is Paul's tree. While a bunch of PPC developers (including me ;) ha

Re: official kernel tree?

2000-09-03 Thread Michel Dänzer
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > For 2.4, I suggest you use the bitkeeper tree. I remember reading somewhere that it's mainly for PReP/CHRP while pmac-devel was supposed to be for PowerMacs. What's the advantage of bitkeeper for PowerMac users? Michel -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \

Re: official kernel tree?

2000-09-03 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
>I see that both >linuxcare.com.au::linux-pmac-devel /usr/src/linux-stable >linuxcare.com.au::linux-pmac-devel /usr/src/linux-unstable > >are not being updated as they used to. I would like to >know >1. if this tree is still alive, and >2. what is the official kernel tree for PPC If you are look

Re: Supported screenmode?

2000-09-03 Thread Michel Dänzer
Björn Johansson wrote: > Is the screenmode PAL:lowres(320x256) supported by the X-server(Xfree86)? In 3.3.x: yes. In 4.x: not yet probably. I'm currently working on it. > If it is, how do I change it in my XF86Config file? By the way, I'm > currently running Xfree86 3.3.6 with AGA =(. Can't he

official kernel tree?

2000-09-03 Thread Sergio Brandano
Hi, I see that both linuxcare.com.au::linux-pmac-devel /usr/src/linux-stable linuxcare.com.au::linux-pmac-devel /usr/src/linux-unstable are not being updated as they used to. I would like to know 1. if this tree is still alive, and 2. what is the official kernel tree for PPC Thanks, Sergio

Re: KDE2 (snapshot) debs available

2000-09-03 Thread Andrew B. Arthur
Björn Johansson wrote: > > Since my system is in a mess =), I skipped the apt-get > bit and installed every archive using DPKG. When installing > kdelibs3_2.0 it said that it needed libssl09. I searched on > Altavista and the Debian ftp, but so far I have just found > the Intel binary, where's th