Re: G3 installation problems

2005-02-25 Thread Shyamal Prasad
> The rc2 powerpc floppy-2.4 installer is 1,474,560 bytes AFAICT. "bluesbravo" == bluesbravo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: bluesbravo> i am sorry, but i am a little confusedhow does a bluesbravo> file that big fit on a floppy?? am i doing something bluesbravo> wrong?? if

Re: Approaches to enabling scanning for AirPort (not Extreme)

2005-02-25 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 08:30:42AM -0800, Eric Gaumer wrote: > Sven Luther wrote: > >>Or I can send you the patch if you'd like to build your own kernel. > > > > > >What about filling a bug report against the debian kernels instead ? > > > >And for your information, there where such patches inside

Re: Which Kernel for Airport Support?

2005-02-25 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 08:38:32AM -0700, Mauro wrote: > > > Airport extreme is not supported though, and never will be. > > > > > > Can you please provide a pointer to your sources ? > > I providedhtem in my second post. Here it is again. > http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-bcom4301/ > >

Re: Which Kernel for Airport Support?

2005-02-25 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 10:30:52PM -0800, Brad Boyer wrote: > On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 07:06:56AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > A, good idea, the only thing you may have problems with, is the space > > problem. > > Can someone with access to the actual hardware can tell us if there would be > > spa

Re: Which Kernel for Airport Support?

2005-02-25 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 01:22:07PM +0100, Andreas Jaggi wrote: > Hi, > > * Sven Luther, Fre 25 Feb 2005 10:21:05 CET: > > Thanks, is it ok with you if i publish these images in a potential > > hardware-replacement project page ? > > For me it's no problem. > But i don't know if Apple/Broadcom ha

Re: Which Kernel for Airport Support?

2005-02-25 Thread Brad Boyer
On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 07:06:56AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > A, good idea, the only thing you may have problems with, is the space problem. > Can someone with access to the actual hardware can tell us if there would be > space for such a connector ? I have a PowerBook5,2 (15", 1GHz). I bought t

Re: Which Kernel for Airport Support?

2005-02-25 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 01:33:29AM +0100, Peter 'p2' De Schrijver wrote: > On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 07:49:41PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 05:49:32PM +, Ben Hill wrote: > > > On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 12:46 -0500, Barry Hawkins wrote: > > > > The critical issue is your har

sorry, a bit more...

2005-02-25 Thread vze26m98
vze26m98 wrote on 2/26/05: >So it seems that I can print via pap/netatalk and can put a print job >in a CUPS queue via lp. But I'm unclear what in between in giving me >trouble. Any thoughts? CUPS also seems to load before Netatalk and so reports that it can't find any lp devices. I've tried r

CUPS/Appletallk/LaserJet addendum...

2005-02-25 Thread vze26m98
OK- Messed around most all day with this. To recap: Mostly stock Woody distro on Pismo laptop. apt-get'd CUPS and installed. Netatalk previously installed. LaserJet 2100 TN with JetDirect 600 3110a. Found Thomas Kaiser's pap backend script, placed in /usr/lib/cups/backend and made executa

Re: iBook G4 CDWriter and hdparm

2005-02-25 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 19:50 +0100, Alfonso Aguarón Turrientes wrote: > Hi all, > > this is my first message on the list so hi to everyone. > > Well this is my problem. I own an iBook G4 with Debian Sid PPC > installed. Everything is working fine, but recording CDs. I only records > at 8x speed ev

Re: Which Kernel for Airport Support?

2005-02-25 Thread Jacob S
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 15:56:01 -0800 Eric Gaumer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ben Hill wrote: > > On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 08:52 -0800, Eric Gaumer wrote: > > > >>Has anyone actually tried to contact Broadcom? > > > > > > I think it's been posted before, but there is a petition at: > > > > http://www.p

Re: New powerbooks support status

2005-02-25 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 11:34 +0100, Antonio-M. Corbi Bellot wrote: > El vie, 25-02-2005 a las 15:22 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt escribió: > > Hi BenH! > > > Wht do you mean ? The half bogomips ? well, it might just be a matter of > > enabling support for your machine in arch/ppc/platforms/pmac_c

Re: Which Kernel for Airport Support?

2005-02-25 Thread Peter 'p2' De Schrijver
On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 07:49:41PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 05:49:32PM +, Ben Hill wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 12:46 -0500, Barry Hawkins wrote: > > > The critical issue is your hardware rather than the kernel version; > > > support for AirPort goes way back wit

Re: Approaches to enabling scanning for AirPort (not Extreme)

2005-02-25 Thread Eric Gaumer
Barry Hawkins wrote: Luca Bigliardi - shammash wrote: [...] | You can find the original work here: | http://www.kismetwireless.net/download.shtml | | The patch for the vanilla kernel is under "Orinoco Driver Patches for | 2.6.9 & 2.6.10 & 2.6.8.1-mdk" section. | | I'm using the patch for the CVS ve

Re: Which Kernel for Airport Support?

2005-02-25 Thread Eric Gaumer
Ben Hill wrote: On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 08:52 -0800, Eric Gaumer wrote: Has anyone actually tried to contact Broadcom? I think it's been posted before, but there is a petition at: http://www.petitiononline.com/BCM4301/ with over 10,000 signatures (one of them now mine). Well see here is my point...

Sony SuperStation - tape backup

2005-02-25 Thread kajko
Hi. I have Sony SuperStation, connected to the computer by LPT port, but my system doesn't see it. Do somebody know how I can connect it to Linux Sarga? What module I have to add to kernel that this will be visible in the system? Thanks for help. Mariusz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Re: Ok, So Which Wi-Fi Adapter...

2005-02-25 Thread Daniele Menozzi
On 18:38:50 25/Feb , Ben Hill wrote: > Which adapter, either USB or cardbus can I get "on the high-street" that > will work with my powerpc? I'm going to see if I can help with the > driver campaign / driver reverse engineering, but in the mean time I > need something that "just works" :-) I used

Re: Approaches to enabling scanning for AirPort (not Extreme)

2005-02-25 Thread Barry Hawkins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Luca Bigliardi - shammash wrote: [...] | You can find the original work here: | http://www.kismetwireless.net/download.shtml | | The patch for the vanilla kernel is under "Orinoco Driver Patches for | 2.6.9 & 2.6.10 & 2.6.8.1-mdk" section. | | I'm using

Feeding gcc flags to make-kpkg

2005-02-25 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
Hi I found some flags to feed to gcc --- 7450, aka G4 second generation (PowerPC) CHOST="powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-mcpu=7450 -O2 -pipe -maltivec -mabi=altivec -mpowerpc-gfxopt" CXXFLAGS="-mcpu=7450 -O2 -pipe -maltivec -mabi=altivec

Ok, So Which Wi-Fi Adapter...

2005-02-25 Thread Ben Hill
Sorry for the plethora of wi-fi related posts; but I just have one question. Which adapter, either USB or cardbus can I get "on the high-street" that will work with my powerpc? I'm going to see if I can help with the driver campaign / driver reverse engineering, but in the mean time I need someth

Re: Which Kernel for Airport Support?

2005-02-25 Thread Ben Hill
On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 08:52 -0800, Eric Gaumer wrote: > Has anyone actually tried to contact Broadcom? I think it's been posted before, but there is a petition at: http://www.petitiononline.com/BCM4301/ with over 10,000 signatures (one of them now mine). I can't seem to get much of an update ab

Re: Problem installing on PowerMac 8600

2005-02-25 Thread Brad Boyer
On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 05:11:40PM +0100, Patrick Bachmann wrote: > Another weird thing is, that the machine was able to boot from the > MacOS-Disk. > What is different about the Debian Install CDs? There should be some way to > make them bootable on an OldWorld-Machine. It's pretty messy to ma

Re: Problem installing on PowerMac 8600

2005-02-25 Thread vinai
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Patrick Bachmann wrote: Don't be so sure about that. After I installed MacOS 9.1 on the box, I was able to mount those floppies and take a look at them. But when I wanted to write to them, within MacOS I just got an error message saying, that it won't work. Cool, eh? If you

Printer setup CUPS/Netatalk?

2005-02-25 Thread vze26m98
Hi all- Somewhat of a newbie question about setting up CUPS to run with my Linux Pismo: I've got an HP LaserJet 2100TN running on a network with an OSX Panther iBook and the Pismo with Linux Woody. On the OSX machine, I've got emacs (under Apple's X11) configured so it prints fine. On the Linux

Re: Which Kernel for Airport Support?

2005-02-25 Thread Eric Gaumer
Andreas Jaggi wrote: Hi, * Sven Luther, Fre 25 Feb 2005 10:21:05 CET: Thanks, is it ok with you if i publish these images in a potential hardware-replacement project page ? For me it's no problem. But i don't know if Apple/Broadcom have to be asked? It would be great to have a replacement for the

Re: Approaches to enabling scanning for AirPort (not Extreme)

2005-02-25 Thread Eric Gaumer
Sven Luther wrote: Or I can send you the patch if you'd like to build your own kernel. What about filling a bug report against the debian kernels instead ? And for your information, there where such patches inside the 2.6.7/8 powerpc kernels ages ago, but i don't know what Jens did to those, let m

Re: Problem installing on PowerMac 8600

2005-02-25 Thread Patrick Bachmann
Hello vinai On Friday 25 February 2005 03:38 pm, vinai wrote: > And I > don't think it's a problem with the floppy drive itself - I put in the > floppies in MacOS 9, and they showed up on the desktop and I was able to > see the kernel file on the disk. Don't be so sure about that. After I install

Re: Problem installing on PowerMac 8600

2005-02-25 Thread Patrick Bachmann
On Thursday 24 February 2005 08:29 pm, Rick_Thomas wrote: > Old floppy drives, especially if infrequently used, get really dusty > inside. This interferes with reading. Thanks, you got a point there. I always thought the other way round, that my own floppy drives didn't do what they were suppose

Re: Problem installing on PowerMac 8600

2005-02-25 Thread Patrick Bachmann
Hello Holger, On Thursday 24 February 2005 11:12 am, Holger Levsen wrote: > > That's how I did it for all floppies. cmp can't find any difference. But > > the images just don't get recognized by the Macintosh to be bootable. > > might be, that you mac drive has some problems reading floppies writt

Re: Which Kernel for Airport Support?

2005-02-25 Thread Mauro
> > Airport extreme is not supported though, and never will be. > > > > Can you please provide a pointer to your sources ? I providedhtem in my second post. Here it is again. http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-bcom4301/ > Well, it has been like that since ages, there have been numerous thre

Re: Problem installing on PowerMac 8600

2005-02-25 Thread vinai
Hey Folks, No luck booting from a floppy or making it through the installer. Here is what I did, and hopefully, folks can point me in the right direction. I went to http://www.nl.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ and the first thing I tried was the "floppy" set of powerpc images. However, my 850

Re: Which Kernel for Airport Support?

2005-02-25 Thread Andreas Jaggi
Hi, * Sven Luther, Fre 25 Feb 2005 10:21:05 CET: > Thanks, is it ok with you if i publish these images in a potential > hardware-replacement project page ? For me it's no problem. But i don't know if Apple/Broadcom have to be asked? It would be great to have a replacement for the Broadcom card.

Re: Which Kernel for Airport Support?

2005-02-25 Thread Helge Kreutzmann
Hello, On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 10:59:55AM -0800, Eric Gaumer wrote: > The airport card is backward compatible correct? In other words one can > find a Mac OSX user > and proposition him/her to swap cards (airport for airport extreme). No, they are not backward compatible. I tried to do this (my b

Re: New powerbooks support status

2005-02-25 Thread Antonio-M. Corbi Bellot
El vie, 25-02-2005 a las 15:22 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt escribió: Hi BenH! > Wht do you mean ? The half bogomips ? well, it might just be a matter of > enabling support for your machine in arch/ppc/platforms/pmac_cpufreq.c > around those lines: > > if (machine_is_compatible("PowerBo

Re: Approaches to enabling scanning for AirPort (not Extreme)

2005-02-25 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 01:14:21PM -0800, Eric Gaumer wrote: > Barry Hawkins wrote: > >Gusy, > >~Since we are talking wifi today, does anyone have success stories > >for enabling scanning with the AirPort cards in Titanium PowerBooks, > >iBook G3s, etc.? I would love to be able to run waproamd

Re: Which Kernel for Airport Support?

2005-02-25 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 11:24:09PM +0100, Andreas Jaggi wrote: > Hi, > > * ben racher, Don 24 Feb 2005 19:25:24 CET: > > Does anybody know what kind of slot it is, pictures of it or > > anything... > > Some months ago, i removed the cover and scanned the card :-) > > http://files.waterwave.ch/Ai

Re: Which Kernel for Airport Support?

2005-02-25 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 10:59:55AM -0800, Eric Gaumer wrote: > Daniele Menozzi wrote: > >On 18:41:52 24/Feb , ben racher wrote: > > > >>Or you could do what I'm planning to do... get rid of that airport > >>extreme card (with only 15dbm anyway, and poor reception, I can't > > > > > >are you sure?

Re: New powerbooks support status

2005-02-25 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 03:23:15PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 18:57 +0100, Jesus Climent wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 04:39:39PM +0100, Antonio-M. Corbi Bellot wrote: > > > > > > 3) CPU: I can't use cpufreq, /proc/cpuinfo says: > > > > > > processor :

Re: iBook G4 CDWriter and hdparm

2005-02-25 Thread Oriol Pellicer i Sabrià
A Dijous 24 Febrer 2005 19:50, Alfonso Aguarón Turrientes va escriure: > Hi all, > > this is my first message on the list so hi to everyone. > > Well this is my problem. I own an iBook G4 with Debian Sid PPC > installed. Everything is working fine, but recording CDs. I only records > at 8x speed ev

Re: iBook G4 CDWriter and hdparm

2005-02-25 Thread Paul Puschmann
David Medina wrote: > On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 19:50:47 +0100, Alfonso Aguarón Turrientes > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Hi all, >> >>this is my first message on the list so hi to everyone. >> >>Well this is my problem. I own an iBook G4 with Debian Sid PPC >>installed. Everything is working fine, bu