Re: Debian Installer - boot floppies

2006-03-03 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 02:30:36PM -0800, Brad Boyer wrote: > On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 10:04:41PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > > So, my questions would be: > > - which driver is actually needed in the case of #345467 > > swim3.ko > > > - is this driver available on the root floppy (built in or module

Re: iMac G5/iSight (12,1) Status?

2006-03-03 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 10:38 -0500, Percy Zahl wrote: > Hi! > I am just curious about any recent news related to the support of the > 12,1 iMac, especially > Windfarm support and Video/Framebuffer & X11. Nothing yet. I don't know at this point what's going on with the framebuffer and I didn't hav

Re: Debian Installer - boot floppies

2006-03-03 Thread Brad Boyer
On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 11:50:38PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > On Friday 03 March 2006 23:30, Brad Boyer wrote: > > Are we still using devfs, or have we moved on to using udev? > > The installer uses udev for current 2.6 kernels. Then the likely explanation is that udev doesn't like devices that ar

Re: Debian Installer - boot floppies

2006-03-03 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 03 March 2006 23:30, Brad Boyer wrote: > Are we still using devfs, or have we moved on to using udev? The installer uses udev for current 2.6 kernels. pgpWTcHN16boB.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Debian Installer - boot floppies

2006-03-03 Thread Brad Boyer
On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 10:04:41PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > So, my questions would be: > - which driver is actually needed in the case of #345467 swim3.ko > - is this driver available on the root floppy (built in or module) > - if it's modular, is it being loaded No idea. Haven't looked. Based

Re: Debian Installer - boot floppies

2006-03-03 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 10:04:41PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > On Sunday 26 February 2006 17:00, Brad Boyer wrote: > > This problem seems pretty simple. The driver floppy.ko is for normal PC > > style floppy controllers. Apple never did use such a beast in a Mac. > > The swim3 driver should handle th

Re: Debian Installer - boot floppies

2006-03-03 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 26 February 2006 17:00, Brad Boyer wrote: > This problem seems pretty simple. The driver floppy.ko is for normal PC > style floppy controllers. Apple never did use such a beast in a Mac. > The swim3 driver should handle the floppy drives for all PCI Macs that > have internal floppy drives

Re: qla2300 driver included in etch?

2006-03-03 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 01:48:00PM -0500, Toni L. Harbaugh-Blackford [Contr] wrote: > Hi- > > Will the qla2300 driver be included in etch? If not, is there an > issue with the driver? I suppose this is one with the non-free firmware, we will either ship the driver in non-free, or simply move th

Re: Norton Ghost like utility?

2006-03-03 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 08:34:02AM -0500, Shawn Powers wrote: > Uwe A. P. Würdinger wrote: > >Nop, ppc isn't supported but it's based on NetBSD bootfloppy/CD-ROM. > > *but* you can clone a PPC drive, you must just use an i386 machine to do > the cloning. (ie, take the drive out of the powerbook,

qla2300 driver included in etch?

2006-03-03 Thread Toni L. Harbaugh-Blackford [Contr]
Hi- Will the qla2300 driver be included in etch? If not, is there an issue with the driver? Thanks, Toni --- Toni Harbaugh-Blackford [EMAIL PROTECTED] System Administrator Advanced Biomedical Computing Center (ABC

Re: debian modem powerpc

2006-03-03 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > My powerbook (PowerBook5,5) has no USB modem. IIRC the modem hangs off > > some I2C bus. There's no Linux driver for it. > > I2S actually. I'm trying to reverse engineer the one I have > (powerbook5,6) to use it as a phone -- could use help tho :) Going the 'hack MOL to snoop on the wire' rout

iMac G5/iSight (12,1) Status?

2006-03-03 Thread Percy Zahl
Hi! I am just curious about any recent news related to the support of the 12,1 iMac, especially Windfarm support and Video/Framebuffer & X11. Thanks Percy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian modem powerpc

2006-03-03 Thread Johannes Berg
On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 10:30 +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote: > My powerbook (PowerBook5,5) has no USB modem. IIRC the modem hangs off > some I2C bus. There's no Linux driver for it. I2S actually. I'm trying to reverse engineer the one I have (powerbook5,6) to use it as a phone -- could use help tho

Re: Norton Ghost like utility?

2006-03-03 Thread Shawn Powers
Uwe A. P. Würdinger wrote: Nop, ppc isn't supported but it's based on NetBSD bootfloppy/CD-ROM. *but* you can clone a PPC drive, you must just use an i386 machine to do the cloning. (ie, take the drive out of the powerbook, hook it up into an intel/amd based machine, and clone it) Since yo

netboot64 question - WAS:: powerpc64 install from external firewire cd failed - can't load sbp2

2006-03-03 Thread Toni L. Harbaugh-Blackford [Contr]
Sven- I went ahead and tried to continue with the neboot64 image, but it appears that this will not work on the Xserve. It only configures one interface (eth0) and it thinks the interface is firewire apparently. When I do an lsmod, no network driver has been loaded for the gigE ports: ~ # ls

Re: netboot64 question - WAS:: powerpc64 install from external firewire cd failed - can't load sbp2

2006-03-03 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 08:12:58AM -0500, Toni L. Harbaugh-Blackford [Contr] wrote: > Sven- > > I went ahead and tried to continue with the neboot64 image, but it appears > that this will not work on the Xserve. It only configures one interface > (eth0) and it thinks the interface is firewire ap

Re: powerpc64 install from external firewire cd failed - can't load sbp2

2006-03-03 Thread Toni L. Harbaugh-Blackford [Contr]
Sven- I tried the mini.iso at http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc64/netboot64 and it has the same problem, even though the installer kernel is 2.6.15 ~ # uname -a Linux (none) 2.6.15-1-powerpc64 #2 SMP Tue Feb 21 18:46:53 UTC 2006 ppc64 unknown ~ # lsmod Mod

Re: powerpc64 install from external firewire cd failed - can't load sbp2

2006-03-03 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 07:43:58AM -0500, Toni L. Harbaugh-Blackford [Contr] wrote: > Sven- > > I tried the mini.iso at > > http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc64/netboot64 > > and it has the same problem, even though the installer kernel is 2.6.15 > >~ # uname -a >

Re: debuging 2.6.15 via serial console

2006-03-03 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 11:34:14AM +0100, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > On Thu, 09 Feb 2006 10:49:49 +1100, Ben wrote: > > On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 12:43 +0100, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 11:10:27AM +0100, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > > > > > > [...] > > > > > > > Try installing with floppies?

debuging 2.6.15 via serial console

2006-03-03 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Thu, 09 Feb 2006 10:49:49 +1100, Ben wrote: > On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 12:43 +0100, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 11:10:27AM +0100, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > Try installing with floppies? > > > > Trying my own advice :-) on a Performa 5440. > > > > > http://peopl

Re: debian modem powerpc

2006-03-03 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > > I've been trying to get an answer for three weeks now: didn't get > > > anything. > > > > And you probably won't. Maybe the linuxant driver could work, but I don't > > think so. > > Gentoo has a ebuild for linuxant drivers on ppc[1] but is hard masked. > > It probably works for some people.

Re: debian modem powerpc

2006-03-03 Thread Eddy Petrişor
On 3/3/06, Eddy Petrişor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/2/06, Jack Malmostoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 02 Mar 2006 17:40:16 +0100, Jean-Jacques Bonvin wrote: > > > > > I've been trying to get an answer for three weeks now: didn't get > > > anything. > > > > And you probably won't.

Re: debian modem powerpc

2006-03-03 Thread Eddy Petrişor
On 3/2/06, Jack Malmostoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 02 Mar 2006 17:40:16 +0100, Jean-Jacques Bonvin wrote: > > > I've been trying to get an answer for three weeks now: didn't get > > anything. > > And you probably won't. Maybe the linuxant driver could work, but I don't > think so. Gen