Re: Debian install on biege G3

2005-12-11 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 03:09:31PM +, David Pead wrote: > >>> Mount the MacOS-partition where BootX resides. [...] > When I use > ls dev > there's no refernece to the sda6 partition at all. The list reads: > > adb fb kmemmiscpts scsiurandom > cd

Re: d-link dwl 122 workin?

2005-12-11 Thread Bjoern
Alle 18:48, domenica 11 dicembre 2005, Rene Engelhard ha scritto: > Bjoern wrote: > > [ 1659.701345] prism2sta_getcardinfo: Failed to retrieve NICIDENTITY > > [ 1659.701349] prism2sta_getcardinfo: Failed, result=-5 > > [ 1659.701356] prism2sta_ifstate: prism2sta_getcardinfo() > > failed,result=-5 [

Re: Re: yaboot error - load size is too small

2005-12-11 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sun, 2005-12-11 at 23:04 +, Michael Gilbert wrote: > Stephen > > to cut a long story short I am getting "load size is too small" when > trying to boot a mac Ibook using open firmware after installing OSX > 3.4.9. This should have been very straightforward but is not. Every > time I try

Re: Yosemite /proc/cpuinfo

2005-12-11 Thread Albert Cahalan
On 12/11/05, Robin Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > my cpuinfo reports temp as 27-31 uncalibrated? what does this mean is it > possible to get an accurate reading from my g3 powermac... the reason im > interested is because i have overclocked it from 350mhz to 400mhz. You can calibrate

Re: stock kernel 2.6.12 eth0/eth1 swapped

2005-12-11 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> just to say that this swapping can be very difficult to diagnose to the > basic user. Coming from the i386 world, I would only expect this to > happen with two similar interfaces. I installed a debian (testing) on my > iMac G5 yesterday (only one eth physical inteface), and if this thread > had

Re: Ibook G4 freezes

2005-12-11 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 03:47 +0100, Kevin ALLIX wrote: > Hi, > > My ibook often freezes after a few hours, I have been googling for months and > I can't find someone else with the same problem. > > Freeze description : > well...it just freezes :) Neither keyboard nor touchpad are active (can't

Re: Linux on new iMac G5 PowerMac12,1 ?

2005-12-11 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> You might find some useful information in my installation-report... > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=340980 > > As far as I used them, the default kernels from testing and sid are OK, > apart from the fact that the sound driver is seriously broken and > crashes the system w

Re: Linux on new iMac G5 PowerMac12,1 ?

2005-12-11 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sun, 2005-12-11 at 21:32 -0500, Percy Zahl wrote: > Hi all- > > I tried to boot a 2.6.14.3-ppc kernel on a new iMac G5 (20"/2.1GHz) > PowerMac12,1, it crashed after about 4 or 5 lines of kernel messages, > and the OF promt was back scrolling endless need to manually > power off to rec

Ibook G4 freezes

2005-12-11 Thread Kevin ALLIX
Hi, My ibook often freezes after a few hours, I have been googling for months and I can't find someone else with the same problem. Freeze description : well...it just freezes :) Neither keyboard nor touchpad are active (can't switch to console nor typing anything, cursor doesn't respond to tou

Re: Linux on new iMac G5 PowerMac12,1 ?

2005-12-11 Thread Charles Plessy
On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 09:32:56PM -0500, Percy Zahl wrote : > Hi all- > > I tried to boot a 2.6.14.3-ppc kernel on a new iMac G5 (20"/2.1GHz) > PowerMac12,1, it crashed after about 4 or 5 lines of kernel messages, > and the OF promt was back scrolling endless need to manually > power of

Linux on new iMac G5 PowerMac12,1 ?

2005-12-11 Thread Percy Zahl
Hi all- I tried to boot a 2.6.14.3-ppc kernel on a new iMac G5 (20"/2.1GHz) PowerMac12,1, it crashed after about 4 or 5 lines of kernel messages, and the OF promt was back scrolling endless need to manually power off to recover. Is there any Linux kernel variant known to boot successf

Re: powerbook 6,8 progress and Airport issues!

2005-12-11 Thread Johannes Berg
On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 01:08 +0200, Emmanuel Galatoulas wrote: > Dec 12 00:34:10 qubit kernel: bcm43xx: FIXME: Possibly broken code in > bcm43xx_phy_setupg() at /usr/src/bcm43xx-20051207/bcm43xx_phy.c:333 > > which may say something to the more knowledgeable!) Ignore it. The warning is bogus, th

Re: powerbook 6,8 progress and Airport issues!

2005-12-11 Thread Emmanuel Galatoulas
Matthias Jordan wrote: Hi, folks! Emmanuel Galatoulas schrieb: ifup eth2 what i get is SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory [...] bcm43xx: Error: Microcode "bcm43xx_microcode5.fw" not available or load failed. I'm not sure about it but the following might serve as a t

Re: Re: yaboot error - load size is too small

2005-12-11 Thread Michael Gilbert
Stephen to cut a long story short I am getting "load size is too small" when trying to boot a mac Ibook using open firmware after installing OSX 3.4.9. This should have been very straightforward but is not. Every time I try to boot I get the prohibited logo similar to a no entry sign. If y

Re: System freezes on iMac G5

2005-12-11 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> I rmmoded the driver (snd_powermac), and it solves the problem, however, > obviously, I have no sound anymore, which is not fun. > > Does aynbody of you know a workaround? Some old pages found via Google > talk about a module named dmasound_powermac, but I did not find it in > /lib/kernel... N

Re: stock kernel 2.6.12 eth0/eth1 swapped

2005-12-11 Thread Rich Johnson
On Dec 10, 2005, at 8:18 PM, Charles Plessy wrote: So somehow, this problem must be tackled in some way, otherwise I guess that there will be a lot of "the installer does not work" reports... Amen to that! After much go-round, here's _a_ recipe that might help (Kudos to Johannes for his

Re: d-link dwl 122 workin?

2005-12-11 Thread Rene Engelhard
Bjoern wrote: > #=== INFRASTRUCTURE STATION === > # What kind of authentication? > AuthType="opensystem" # opensystem | sharedkey (requires WEP) Make that sharedkey... > SSID_wlan0="AEMILIA" > ENABLE_wlan0=y > [ 1659.701345] prism2sta_getcardinfo: Failed to retrieve NIC

Debian on an Old World G3 'wallstreet'

2005-12-11 Thread anthony iles
I'm trying to install debian on an oldworld mac : Powerbook G3 series 'WallStreet' using the following howto as a guide : https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Installation/OldWorldMacs After getting past a problem with the cd drive I managed most of the install. However, when I get to the stage of mounting th

Re: stock kernel 2.6.12 eth0/eth1 swapped

2005-12-11 Thread Rich Johnson
On Dec 10, 2005, at 5:10 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: Network device ordering has never been guaranteed nor stable. It depends on things like link order, module load ordering, or on async probe busses like firewire or USB can depend on the phase of the moon. The bug is to assume it can

d-link dwl 122 workin?

2005-12-11 Thread Bjoern
Hey everybody. Momentarily I'm running a Kubuntu Linux, but I will return soon to Debian, strangely a lot of applications are quite unstable and in the forums there does not seem to be lots of activity... Anyway I fear that my problem I had also under Gentoo and now under Kubuntu (5.10) will per

Re: stock kernel 2.6.12 eth0/eth1 swapped

2005-12-11 Thread Johannes Berg
> I'll try it. > > Just curious though, what does your /etc/iftab look like? Do you > use "eth0" despite the > > "It is discouraged to try to map interfaces to default > interfaces names > such as eth0, wlan0 or ppp0." > > warning in /etc/iftab's man page? > > Ordid yo

System freezes on iMac G5

2005-12-11 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear all, I installed debian on my iMac G5, and while I eventually overcame the bug in testing's yaboot[1], I faced strange freezes on the system freshly installed. I finally figured out that the system was crashing when I was pressing the TAB key on console, because the shell then wants to emit

Re: stock kernel 2.6.12 eth0/eth1 swapped

2005-12-11 Thread Rich Johnson
On Dec 10, 2005, at 3:19 PM, Johannes Berg wrote: On Sat, 2005-12-10 at 14:59 -0500, Rich Johnson wrote: There're lot's of suggestions out there--involving /etc/iftab, /etc/ mactab, ifrename, hotplug, et al--but nothing definitive. I have yet to find any providing /etc/init.d scripts! If you

Re: Patching 2.6.15.rc5

2005-12-11 Thread Magnus Rosenbaum
Maladrie Julien wrote: I'm trying to patch my kernel (2.6.14.3) with the 2.6.15.rc5... but it's unsuccesfull.. You have to apply the patch against 2.6.14, not 2.6.14.3. -- Carl Magnus Rosenbaum M.A. Tel: 089 - 700 666 26 Administration - Programmierung - Weiterbildung

Re: stock kernel 2.6.12 eth0/eth1 swapped

2005-12-11 Thread Charles Plessy
On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 11:52:19AM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote : > The problem is best tackled by actually recognising the type of device > and it's mac address. Does that mean that a bug should be opened on debian-installer ? -- Charles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

Re: stock kernel 2.6.12 eth0/eth1 swapped

2005-12-11 Thread Johannes Berg
The problem is best tackled by actually recognising the type of device and it's mac address. On Sun, 2005-12-11 at 10:18 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > By the way, what is this second eth interface on iMac G5? The broadcom > card ? Firewire. johannes signature.asc Description: This is a digit

Re: 2.6.14 and m3mirror broken

2005-12-11 Thread Peter Plessas
Hi Helge, thanks! Since i never filed a bug report on the BTS i should find out how to do this :-) Problem is that m3mirror is more a small feature/hack by BenH (afaik). Helge Kreutzmann wrote: Did you report this in the BTS to get fixed at least in Debian? Why don't you go back to the old

Yosemite /proc/cpuinfo

2005-12-11 Thread Robin Edwards
Hi,my cpuinfo reports temp as 27-31 uncalibrated? what does this mean is it possible to get an accurate reading from my g3 powermac... the reason im interested is because i have overclocked it from 350mhz to 400mhz. thanks

Patching 2.6.15.rc5

2005-12-11 Thread Maladrie Julien
Hi, I'm trying to patch my kernel (2.6.14.3) with the 2.6.15.rc5... but it's unsuccesfull.. How to do it?? (i don't want to use the Debian method). Thanks JuLieN -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]