Debian and B50

2002-10-07 Thread j0rd1 Adame
Hello ya'll I just got a B50 at school, I'm trying to install Debian in it, but i can't even get it to boot from the cd. I have read all the Debian PPC install manual without any good results, i would *really* apreciate any information, manual or ANYTHING which could guide me through the installa

Can somebody please test to see if bug #153564 is gone?

2002-10-07 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
Hi! I don't have the proper powerpc hardware to test this, that's why I'm calling you to test this for me. The bug is related to a libpt problem and can be noticed in ohphone when you call it with --ringfile (you can read more about this on the bugreport) I have built a preliminary version of th

weird airport

2002-10-07 Thread J. Volkmann
Hello, I am using my ibook2 at school, where some of my friends also use laptops. So we want to do a WLAN (my wlan interface is eth1), but as there is no access point, we have to do it otherwise. Changing the state of the airport card via "iwconfig eth1 mode Ad-Hoc" do adhoc mode works fine, we

Troubles booting with external SCSI HD

2002-10-07 Thread Vallet Simon
Hell everybody, I recently found an _old_ external SCSI HD (manufacturer HP, but apparently sold by LaCie) and tried to use it under Linux. But when I boot with the disk on the SCSI chain (id 6), I get the following msgs : ... scsi0 : MESH scsi : 1 host. mesh: target 3 synchonous at 5.0 MB/s

Re: ADSL problem with Kernel 2.4.18

2002-10-07 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> >I recently changed my kernel from 2.2.19 to 2.4.18 newpmac >on a pismo powerbook. > >I have a problem with my ADSL connection. It worked (and still works) when >with 2.2.19 and I have problems with 2.4.18 : a ping gives no result. > >As you can see below inet addr for ppp0 are different so I sup

Re: Searching for a tool to sync iBook2 with workstation

2002-10-07 Thread Jan-Hendrik Palic
Hi On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 10:19:13AM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote: >> > >As far as I use on both systems Debian stable I've found via apt-cache >> > >a perl script package called drsync, it's based on the rsync tool and >> > >should be able to handle the syncing job quite well. >> > I do not have an

Re: Searching for a tool to sync iBook2 with workstation

2002-10-07 Thread Jan-Hendrik Palic
Hi .. On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 12:24:38AM +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: >> >As far as I use on both systems Debian stable I've found via apt-cache >> >a perl script package called drsync, it's based on the rsync tool and >> >should be able to handle the syncing job quite well. >> I do not have any

Re: Searching for a tool to sync iBook2 with workstation

2002-10-07 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 12:24:38AM +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: > On Sun, 2002-10-06 at 23:13, Jan-Hendrik Palic wrote: > > Hi .. > > > > On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 11:28:35PM +0200, Ivo Marino wrote: > > >I'm searching for a command line tool to sync my Debian iBook2 laptop > > >with my Debian work

Re: Searching for a tool to sync iBook2 with workstation

2002-10-07 Thread Jesus Climent
On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 11:28:35PM +0200, Ivo Marino wrote: > Hello DebianPPC folks, > > I'm searching for a command line tool to sync my Debian iBook2 laptop > with my Debian workstation using an Ethernet connection. > > I would be able to sync with this tool my entire personal home directory, >

ADSL problem with Kernel 2.4.18

2002-10-07 Thread Jean-Sébastien Rousseau-Piot
Hi, I recently changed my kernel from 2.2.19 to 2.4.18 newpmac on a pismo powerbook. I have a problem with my ADSL connection. It worked (and still works) when with 2.2.19 and I have problems with 2.4.18 : a ping gives no result. As you can see below inet addr for ppp0 are different so I suppos

yaboot boot script

2002-10-07 Thread Jean-Sébastien Rousseau-Piot
Hi, I saw in some CHRP scripts a tag for Is there any documentation about this tag content (the image it display) ? Are there any interesting tags ? Is it possible to have a real dialog with the machine rather than pressing space tab to boot on Linux ? ( press D for Debian, X for Mac OSX, e