Question about the nessus-plugins package

2001-09-06 Thread Melissa Reid
The current nessus-plugins package for PPC in testing does not contain the nessus-update-plugins script, though the one for i386 does. Is this deliberate, or do I need to file a bug? Or should I be asking someplace entirely different? Melissa Reid

Re: Bug#111532: octave2.1: cannot download package using apt-get on ppc

2001-09-06 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
"Daniel" == Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Daniel> On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 08:44:58PM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: Akmal> Package: octave2.1 Version: N/A Severity: normal Akmal> Akmal> apt-get complains that there is no installation candidate. This Dirk> I know --

Re: Netbooting/Quik/SystemDisk

2001-09-06 Thread Steven Hanley
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 08:20:02PM -0300, Ricardo Pardini wrote: > Hello all, > > i was wondering, has anyone tried netbooting Debian on PPC? I own > a Beige G3, the one that has a lot of problems with OpenFirmware (it?s > OF 2.01f) and because of that I can only boot Linux via BootX, which >

Re: Bug#111532: octave2.1: cannot download package using apt-get on ppc

2001-09-06 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 08:44:58PM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > Hi Akmal, > > "Akmal" == Akmal Abdul Rahman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Akmal> Package: octave2.1 > Akmal> Version: N/A > Akmal> Severity: normal > Akmal> > Akmal> apt-get complains that there is no installati

Bug#111532: octave2.1: cannot download package using apt-get on ppc

2001-09-06 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Hi Akmal, "Akmal" == Akmal Abdul Rahman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Akmal> Package: octave2.1 Akmal> Version: N/A Akmal> Severity: normal Akmal> Akmal> apt-get complains that there is no installation candidate. This I know -- we need to get this compiled, but I need help from the

Re: [iBook FW] Lost X with move from -3 to -4

2001-09-06 Thread Josh Huber
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christian Pernegger) writes: >> (it's better for your health not to CC: Branden, he doesn't like that... :) > > Ok, sorry... he does have M-C-T: none set, does Mutt 1.2.5 not honor this field? ttyl, -- Josh Huber | [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: Boot scripts and Firmware Update 4.1.8

2001-09-06 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Ethan Benson writes: > well i will need more info then that. You mean my partition table and yaboot.conf? Would it be okay if I sent them to your private address? Regards, Jens. -- J'qbpbe, le m'en fquz pe j'qbpbe! Le veux aimeb et mqubib panz je pézqbpbe je djuz tqtaj!

Re: bootable CD for powerpc (fwd)

2001-09-06 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 11:15:15PM +0200, Otto Wyss wrote: > [...] > > then burn your CD and it should boot like any other macos cd (on > > newworld only). > > > Thanks. > > > the current potato debian CDs should already be bootable on all > > newworlds. > > > I got Debian 2.2rev3 from a friend

Re: Boot scripts and Firmware Update 4.1.8

2001-09-06 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 04:12:45PM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > Hi, > > Ethan Benson writes: > > > if its type Apple_HFS then macos is probably corrupting it. > > The type is Apple_Bootstrap. And it doesn't work even if I use it > directly after setting it up with ybin. well i will need m

Netbooting/Quik/SystemDisk

2001-09-06 Thread Ricardo Pardini
Hello all, i was wondering, has anyone tried netbooting Debian on PPC? I own a Beige G3, the one that has a lot of problems with OpenFirmware (it´s OF 2.01f) and because of that I can only boot Linux via BootX, which annoys me very much because I have to keep MacOS and all this 5 partitions on

Re: [iBook FW] Lost X with move from -3 to -4

2001-09-06 Thread Christian Pernegger
> (it's better for your health not to CC: Branden, he doesn't like that... :) Ok, sorry... > No, but would you accept a fix instead? ;) > > Panning used to be broken in aty128fb. If you can't or don't want to use > Benjamin Herrenschmidt's kernel (which has the fix), try this patch: > > http://

Re: bootable CD for powerpc (fwd)

2001-09-06 Thread Otto Wyss
[...] > then burn your CD and it should boot like any other macos cd (on > newworld only). > Thanks. > the current potato debian CDs should already be bootable on all > newworlds. > I got Debian 2.2rev3 from a friend but it doesn't boot on my b&w G3. From the blinking led during startup the CD i

Re: keymap-help request

2001-09-06 Thread Michel Dänzer
Robert Bar wrote: > >> your using a broken kernel. you must recompile it with > >> CONFIG_MAC_ADBKEYCODES=n > > this way i'm also told by dpkg-reconfigure-dialog but i must confess > i don't know how to do (do not beat the newbies, please: could > someone give me some (step by step) instruction

Re: keymap-help request

2001-09-06 Thread Michel Dänzer
Stephen Peters wrote: > * At the console, all the keys work except for the left-arrow key on > the separate arrow keypad. I'm totally unclear as to why the up-, > down-, and right- would be fine in this case. Have you enabled Magic Sysrq in the kernel? When I had, left-arrow was the magic ke

Re: [iBook FW] Lost X with move from -3 to -4

2001-09-06 Thread Michel Dänzer
Branden Robinson wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 01:12:46AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > Branden Robinson wrote: > > > No, I had to remove it. It broke r128 for everybody with an Intel box. > > > > Who cares? ;) > > I should have mentioned this before, but see bugs: #107349, #107383, > #10

Re: [iBook FW] Lost X with move from -3 to -4

2001-09-06 Thread Michel Dänzer
(it's better for your health not to CC: Branden, he doesn't like that... :) Christian Pernegger wrote: > > > > Hmm, I don't have UseFBDev but this change was not in the update in > > > question or was it? > > > > Yes. > > X starts now but I can't say it works. I used 1024x1800 (I think) as > th

Re: How to compile a kernel

2001-09-06 Thread Matt Brubeck
On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, [iso-8859-1] Richard Barraclough wrote: > Presumably I need to move the compiled kernel to the "Linux Kernels" > folder on the Mac partition of the hard disc so that BootX can use it. > But what is the new kernel file called? It is in the top level of the kernel source directo

Re: keymap-help request

2001-09-06 Thread Robert Bar
At 12:17 Uhr -0700 05.09.2001, Andrew Sharp wrote: (...) Hmm, how long have you been lurking? This issue only comes up about 4 times a day. - since i've decided to try running MOL instead of "classic" & MacOS X and - since i've got to realize that linux.debian.user and comp.os.linux.powerpc

Re: keymap-help request

2001-09-06 Thread Robert Bar
At 12:17 Uhr -0700 05.09.2001, Andrew Sharp wrote: (...) Hmm, how long have you been lurking? This issue only comes up about 4 times a day. - since i've decided to try running MOL instead of "classic" & MacOS X and - since i've got to realize that linux.debian.user and comp.os.linux.powerpc

How to compile a kernel

2001-09-06 Thread Richard Barraclough
Hi, The story so far: I have a PowerMac 7200 that I want to use as a router to share our cable modem. I've got a 3Con PCI ethernet card which should be a 3c59x. The card is not recognised. As far as I can tell, I need to re-compile my kernel and enable the 3c59x driver. I installed kernel-sourc

Re: PCMCIA with yenta_socket driver, and wavelan...on Lombard!

2001-09-06 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
>Cool. Good to know. > >Do you know what would cause the bk tree to not work at all? (see >previous messages in the thread about what errors I saw...) It's possible that paulus fixes for pccard resource allocation aren't in Linus tree nor bk. I'll ask him. They are in my tree. Ben.

Re: PCMCIA with yenta_socket driver, and wavelan...on Lombard!

2001-09-06 Thread Josh Huber
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My tree has an additional fix for ide_cs that is lacking in Linus > tree and bk's. Without it, ide pcmcia/cardbus cards may lockup. Cool. Good to know. Do you know what would cause the bk tree to not work at all? (see previous messages in th

Re: [iBook FW] Lost X with move from -3 to -4

2001-09-06 Thread Christian Pernegger
> > Hmm, I don't have UseFBDev but this change was not in the update in > > question or was it? > > Yes. X starts now but I can't say it works. I used 1024x1800 (I think) as the virtual screen size - made web pages bearable on the 800x600 display. Unfortunately that doesn't work anymore. The vir

Re: PCMCIA with yenta_socket driver, and wavelan...on Lombard!

2001-09-06 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
>> The problem with memory mapping may a problem with your kernel, try >> with Benh's. If it doesn't help, I can send you me .config file for >> the kernel, it works just right on my Lombard. > >Yes, it's working great now. Well...I can't test the wireless card >because I'm at work, but the ide fl

Re: PCMCIA with yenta_socket driver, and wavelan...on Lombard!

2001-09-06 Thread Josh Huber
Florent Pillet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm using Benh's kernel 2.4.9-ben0 (the latest one available from > ppckernel.org). Indeed, this works for me. I also had to change wvlan_cs to orinoco_cs, and ide_cs to ide-cs in /etc/pcmcia/config. I wonder what a nice way to have this work for bot

Re: PCMCIA with yenta_socket driver, and wavelan...on Lombard!

2001-09-06 Thread Florent Pillet
on 6/09/01 14:44, Josh Huber at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22 > options: [pci] [cardbus] > Yenta IRQ list , PCI irq22 > Socket status: 3006 > cs: memory probe 0x8000-0x80ff: excluding 0x8000-0x80ff > cs: unable to map card memory! > cs: unabl

Re: [iBook FW] Lost X with move from -3 to -4

2001-09-06 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 01:12:39AM +0200, Christian Pernegger wrote: > > > Branden, do you still use this patch: > > > > > > * patch #152: David Gibson's Rage128 fix for video mode saving and > > > restoring > > > when there is no video BIOS (such as on a PowerPC...) > > > > > > ? It's req

Re: Boot scripts and Firmware Update 4.1.8

2001-09-06 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Ethan Benson writes: > if its type Apple_HFS then macos is probably corrupting it. The type is Apple_Bootstrap. And it doesn't work even if I use it directly after setting it up with ybin. Regards, Jens. -- J'qbpbe, le m'en fquz pe j'qbpbe! Le veux aimeb et mqubib panz je pézqbpbe je d

Re: strange kernels behavior

2001-09-06 Thread Michel Dänzer
Damien GUIHAL wrote: > > > rtc: I/O port 112 is not free. > > > > you configured it wrong. you must have CONFIG_RTC=n and CONFIG_PPC_RTC=y > > I just get the kernel image package from debian testing so the error must be > here I think. Please submit a bug if there isn't one about this already.

Re: [iBook FW] Lost X with move from -3 to -4

2001-09-06 Thread Michel Dänzer
Christian Pernegger wrote: > > > > Branden, do you still use this patch: > > > > > > * patch #152: David Gibson's Rage128 fix for video mode saving and > > > restoring when there is no video BIOS (such as on a PowerPC...) > > > > > > ? It's required for Macs without UseFBDev. > > > > No, I h

Re: Boot scripts and Firmware Update 4.1.8

2001-09-06 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 03:10:59PM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > Hi, > > Ethan Benson writes: > > > most machines won't boot yaboot directly > > Well, mine does. > > > what version of ybin are you using? > > The one from sid, i.e. 1.2.4. > > > is your disk partitioned correctly? > > If yo

Re: Boot scripts and Firmware Update 4.1.8

2001-09-06 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Ethan Benson writes: > most machines won't boot yaboot directly Well, mine does. > what version of ybin are you using? The one from sid, i.e. 1.2.4. > is your disk partitioned correctly? If you mean by 'correct' that it has an 800k partition marked Apple_Bootstrap directly after the dri

Re: PCMCIA with yenta_socket driver, and wavelan...on Lombard!

2001-09-06 Thread Josh Huber
Florent Pillet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a Farallon Skyline 11Mbp (PRISM II chipset) and got it to > work on my Lombard. Here is my /etc/default/pcmcia: > [snip] > > include port 0x100-0x4ff, port 0x1000-0x17ff > include memory 0x8000-0x80ff I tried this, and this is what I ge

Re: Quik on oldworld clone

2001-09-06 Thread Kevin van Haaren
At 11:30 PM -0700 9/5/01, Chris Tillman wrote: > At 12:48 AM -0800 9/5/01, Ethan Benson wrote: On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 10:25:47PM -0500, Kevin van Haaren wrote: Now for the next bit. Does anyone know the magic setting to get quik to boot on a SuperMac C500? According to http://www.lowen

Re: Boot scripts and Firmware Update 4.1.8

2001-09-06 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 08:08:04PM +0900, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > Hi, > > first of all, thanks for the quick response and sorry for messing up > the subject the first time. > > Ethan Benson writes: > > > reset your nvram. i have full success reports from several people > > with this firmware u

Re: strange kernels behavior

2001-09-06 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Damien GUIHAL wrote: > OK thanks, now console is running correctly (even login, why now and > not before, that's the question), I almost get X keymap working, but, > as I'm a french user, i use a french keyboard, and I do not have > special characters : "pipe", "backslash", "ti

Re: Boot scripts and Firmware Update 4.1.8

2001-09-06 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, first of all, thanks for the quick response and sorry for messing up the subject the first time. Ethan Benson writes: > reset your nvram. i have full success reports from several people > with this firmware update. Sorry I can't add another success report. I reset the NVRAM alright (by ho

Re: [iBook FW] Lost X with move from -3 to -4

2001-09-06 Thread Bastien Nocera
Liam Bedford wrote: On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 07:05:25PM -0500, Charles Sebold came forth with: On 18 Elul 5761, Michel Dänzer wrote: Unfortunately, noone has come up with anything but a hack about this problem... So until it gets sorted out, people should use UseFBDev. If one uses UseFBDev,

Re: strange kernels behavior

2001-09-06 Thread Damien GUIHAL
Le Thu, 6 Sep 2001 00:25:47 -0800 Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a ecrit: > On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 09:47:34AM +0200, Damien GUIHAL wrote: > > > > > > install the newwest console-data. it will install the correct keymap > > > for linux keycodes. > > > > I have the newest console-data (as for

Re: PCMCIA with yenta_socket driver, and wavelan...on Lombard!

2001-09-06 Thread Florent Pillet
on 6/09/01 4:58, Josh Huber at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > kernel 2.4.10-pre4 (linuxppc_2_4 bk pull from yesterday) > pcmcia built from the debian source package > > I enabled the kernel PCMCIA support, and have modified > /etc/default/pcmcia: > > ,[ /etc/default/pcmcia ] > | # Defaults for p

Re: [iBook FW] Lost X with move from -3 to -4

2001-09-06 Thread Liam Bedford
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 07:05:25PM -0500, Charles Sebold came forth with: > On 18 Elul 5761, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > Unfortunately, noone has come up with anything but a hack about this > > problem... So until it gets sorted out, people should use UseFBDev. > > If one uses UseFBDev, does that

Re: memtestPPC ?

2001-09-06 Thread Frank Escher
Bastien Nocera schrieb: > Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 01:38:14PM +0200, Frank Escher wrote: > > > >>>Any hope of a stand-alone program that would take advantage of > >>>the various PowerPC features (cache control & AltiVec prefetch) > >>>to find memory problems? > >>> > >> >

Re: Reboot key combination

2001-09-06 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 06:17:03PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 02:33:28PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > >> Before I changed to linux keycodes, the control-shift-power key combination > >> would restart my computer. Now that doesn't work, I get > >> > >> unknown scancode

Re: and Firmware Update 4.1.8

2001-09-06 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 02:36:46PM +0900, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > Hi, > > since I upgraded my Pismo's Boot ROM with Apple's Firmware Update > 4.1.8, it refuses to execute Forth boot scripts. No matter what I > use, the one generated by ybin, old ones from the net, the one I wrote > myself, the m

Re: strange kernels behavior

2001-09-06 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 09:47:34AM +0200, Damien GUIHAL wrote: > > > > install the newwest console-data. it will install the correct keymap > > for linux keycodes. > > I have the newest console-data (as for yesterday at least), and it didn't > corrected the problem, and event if it's false, why

Re: strange kernels behavior

2001-09-06 Thread Damien GUIHAL
Le Wed, 5 Sep 2001 15:56:30 -0800 Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a ecrit: > On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 07:44:40PM +0200, Damien GUIHAL wrote: > > I've installed both lastest 2-2-19 and 2-4-8 kernels from testing and I > > have some problems using both of them : > > > > while precedent release of

Symmetric Multiprocessor

2001-09-06 Thread Gjermund Gusland Thorsen
Why do I get a kernel panic when enabling Symmetric Multiprocessing on a G4/450MP ??? -- Yours Sincerely, Gjermund Gusland Thorsen "Indians scattered on dawn's highway bleeding, ghosts crowd the young child's fragile eggshell mind."- Jim Morrison?

Re: Quik on oldworld clone

2001-09-06 Thread Chris Tillman
> At 12:48 AM -0800 9/5/01, Ethan Benson wrote: >>On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 10:25:47PM -0500, Kevin van Haaren wrote: > Now for the next bit. Does anyone know the magic setting to get quik > to boot on a SuperMac C500? > According to http://www.lowendmac.com/supermacs/c500.shtml the C500 = APUS 2

and Firmware Update 4.1.8

2001-09-06 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, since I upgraded my Pismo's Boot ROM with Apple's Firmware Update 4.1.8, it refuses to execute Forth boot scripts. No matter what I use, the one generated by ybin, old ones from the net, the one I wrote myself, the machine loads the script from OpenFirmware, the screen goes grey and I have to

Re: [iBook FW] Lost X with move from -3 to -4

2001-09-06 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 01:12:46AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > Branden Robinson wrote: > > No, I had to remove it. It broke r128 for everybody with an Intel box. > > Who cares? ;) I should have mentioned this before, but see bugs: #107349, #107383, #107412, #108601, #108659. I guess there is

Re: [iBook FW] Lost X with move from -3 to -4

2001-09-06 Thread Christian Pernegger
> > Branden, do you still use this patch: > > > > * patch #152: David Gibson's Rage128 fix for video mode saving and > > restoring > > when there is no video BIOS (such as on a PowerPC...) > > > > ? It's required for Macs without UseFBDev. > > No, I had to remove it. It broke r128 for ev

Quik on oldworld clone

2001-09-06 Thread Kevin van Haaren
At 12:48 AM -0800 9/5/01, Ethan Benson wrote: On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 10:25:47PM -0500, Kevin van Haaren wrote: the root disk in, hit enter (which works fine -- yeah!), and after a while and a bunch of messages I get: set_blocksize: b_count 1, dev fd(2,0), block 1 from c0067b74 Error: Kerne