Re: Migrating Debian from iMac G4 to iMac G5

2005-09-07 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 06:21:21PM -0300, Eduardo Trápani wrote: > >>Also, notice that it is my experience that linux/powerpc sbp2 (the > >>firewire > >>disk) mode is rather flakey on 2.6 kernels, when i tried that to backup my > >>powerbook, i failed miserably. > > > > > >Cannot confirm this - on

Firewire support in powerpc64 (bus_to_virt error)

2005-09-07 Thread Eduardo Trápani
Hi, I'm simply trying to mount a firewire disk. All attempts end with this error: sbp2: Unknown symbol bus_to_virt I'm using debian kernel 2.6.12-1-powerpc64. I also tried with the modules from the debian installer package, but I get the same error. Before I try to download the source an

suspend-to-disk pbbuttonsd killed

2005-09-07 Thread Jeremiah Benham
When I use the kernel suspend-to-disk with kernels 2.6.13 and 2.6.11 I resume to find that it kills pbbuttonsd. I see a pid in /var/run but I have to restart pbbuttonsd everytime I awake from suspend-to-disk. Is there any way this can be prevented? Thanks, Jeremiah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: Migrating Debian from iMac G4 to iMac G5

2005-09-07 Thread Eduardo Trápani
Also, notice that it is my experience that linux/powerpc sbp2 (the firewire disk) mode is rather flakey on 2.6 kernels, when i tried that to backup my powerbook, i failed miserably. Cannot confirm this - on 2.6.8 and 2.6.11 (old BenH BK trees), sbp2 and fw is rock solid. The only trick is to pl

Re: help with airport card on g3 powerbook

2005-09-07 Thread Chris Martin
On 9/7/05, Matthias Grimm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 7 Sep 2005 16:08:06 + > Chris Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 9/7/05, Matthias Grimm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > If you don't use the Apple base station you have to disable encrypted > > > communication in the

Re: New ghc6 needs manual bootstrapping for C++ ABI/libgmp3 transition.

2005-09-07 Thread Roger Leigh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 LaMont Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 11:28:10PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: >> Because of the C++ ABI transition, ghc6 needs to be rebuild against >> the new libgmp3c2. To build it, follow the instruction in >> debian/boot

Re: help with airport card on g3 powerbook

2005-09-07 Thread Matthias Grimm
On Wed, 7 Sep 2005 16:08:06 + Chris Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/7/05, Matthias Grimm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If you don't use the Apple base station you have to disable encrypted > > communication in the acces point, because the original Apple Airport > > card only suppo

Re: help with airport card on g3 powerbook

2005-09-07 Thread Chris Martin
On 9/7/05, Matthias Grimm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you don't use the Apple base station you have to disable encrypted > communication in the acces point, because the original Apple Airport > card only supports 40Bit WEP which is not longer supported by recent > access points. They use 128bi

Re: swsusp2 with 2.6.13

2005-09-07 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 12:57:05PM +0200, Alexander Strobl wrote: > Sven Luther schrieb: > > On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 10:04:54PM +0200, Alexander Strobl wrote: > > > >>hi all, > >> > >>after i realized suspend-to-ram does not work on powerbook i tried swsusp2. > >> > >>i patched the kernel witch th

Re: swsusp2 with 2.6.13

2005-09-07 Thread Alexander Strobl
Sven Luther schrieb: > On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 10:04:54PM +0200, Alexander Strobl wrote: > >>hi all, >> >>after i realized suspend-to-ram does not work on powerbook i tried swsusp2. >> >>i patched the kernel witch the latest release and set the >>supend-partition to: swap:/dev/hda4 >>i started "hi

Re: help with airport card on g3 powerbook

2005-09-07 Thread Matthias Grimm
On Sun, 4 Sep 2005 13:07:33 -0700 (PDT) gm c <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am unable to get my airport card to connect to a wireless base > station. I am using /etc/network/interfaces. > iface eth1 inet dhcp > wireless-essid myessid > wireless-mode managed > wireless-key mykey > wireless-ap

Re: Bug#326220: libc6 2.3.5 ldconfig segfaults on powerpc oldworld

2005-09-07 Thread Rogério Brito
On Sep 04 2005, Sven Luther wrote: > Ok, are you saying that you managed to build miboot floppies using the > old woody miboot floppies, Yes, I did. > (i think woody came with do-it-yourself-miboot stuff, not sure). I don't know anything about building miboot from scratch. > This would then be