Re: USB?

2006-06-26 Thread dtutty
Sorry, I'm new to this mailing-list world. I need to upgrade my server and I'm looking at used good stuff that is cheaper and more reliable yet as powerful as cheap new stuff. I'm looking at: IBM RS/6000 7026-H50. PPC 604e, PCI with two ISA slots. Integrated SCSI internal and external busses.

Re: Booting/ installing Debian on a G3 with Open Firmware 2.4

2006-06-26 Thread Brad Boyer
On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 12:32:56AM -0700, Daniel Gimpelevich wrote: > On Sat, 24 Jun 2006 15:41:36 -0700, Jason Self wrote: > > The beige G3 is also able to boot from CD. Insert CD and hold down "C" > > on the keyboard while the machine powers up, searches for startup > > devices, finds the CD and

Re: Can't run RAR binary

2006-06-26 Thread Patrick Finnegan
On Sunday 25 June 2006 13:32, Lawrence Li wrote: > > Why bother with any of that when you can install this? > > http://packages.debian.org/testing/utils/unrar > > Thanks for the tip, but when I tried to install it with "dpkg > --install ", it returned the following error msgs: Why not do "apt-get

Re: suspend-to-disk fails on 2nd wake up

2006-06-26 Thread Filippo Giunchedi
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 11:20:19AM -0400, Guy Yasko wrote: > > I've been suspending my Powerbook 6,8 to disk, but I find that I can > only suspend and wake up once. Attempts to wake up from the second > suspend always fail. My machine hangs after it reads the image from > swap. The last message

SCSI driver kernel opps on Dual G4 PowerMac (Mirror front)

2006-06-26 Thread James Stallings II
Hello List! I'm having some issues with my Mac and 3.1r2 Sarge The install goes swimmingly well, and then during the intial reboot, the system probes for devices, tries to load an aic driver for the unused onboard adaptec controller, and gives us a kernel oops. My strategy to fix this is to use

Re: Problems with unpopulated SCSI host on Apple G4 Dualie (mirror front)

2006-06-26 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 10:37:32AM -0500, James Stallings II wrote: > Hello List! > > I'm having some issues with my Mac and 3.1r2 Sarge Since your mac is a PowerPC-based mac, it won't work with Debian/m68k, which can be used on m68k-based macintoshes only, i.e., those made before 1995 or so. I

Listar: Post sent to moderator.

2006-06-26 Thread Listar
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Re: USB?

2006-06-26 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 07:49:50PM +0200, Dieter Schuster wrote: > Hi, > > am So, den 25 Juni 2006, schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > Is there a way to add USB to a unit that doesn't have it? > > I think it would help if you tell us the System you have. > > > Can a generic USB PCI card go in a sl

Re: USB?

2006-06-26 Thread Dieter Schuster
Hi, am So, den 25 Juni 2006, schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Is there a way to add USB to a unit that doesn't have it? I think it would help if you tell us the System you have. > Can a generic USB PCI card go in a slot or will the firmware barf? Will > Linux see it? On the Pegasos II (a PowerPC

Re: Debian on POWER5

2006-06-26 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 08:13:36AM -0400, Jean-Sebastien Pilon wrote: > Thank you for your answer. So " > http://people.debian.org/~luther/debian-installer-64bit-2"; is what I > should use as the IPL stream file ? Or boot it directly from the of with : boot enet:,debian-installer-64bit-2, One a

RE: Debian on POWER5

2006-06-26 Thread Jean-Sebastien Pilon
Thank you for your answer. So " http://people.debian.org/~luther/debian-installer-64bit-2"; is what I should use as the IPL stream file ? -Original Message- From: Sven Luther [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2006 5:25 PM To: Jean-Sebastien Pilon Cc: debian-powerpc@lists

Re: /dev/pmu permissions, again

2006-06-26 Thread Gunther Furtado
Hello, I am receiving a slightly different message: "No /dev/pmu found". Everything seems to be working OK so I'm ignoring the error but is there a way to make it go away? thanks, Gunther Furtado Linux riobaldo 2.6.15-1-powerpc #2 Mon Mar 6 12:39:17 CET 2006 ppc GNU/Linux iMac 333 MHz Sj

Re: keyboard backlight on PB 5,4 and question about modem

2006-06-26 Thread Erik Chakravarty
After modprobing i2c-dev, you need to /etc/init.d/pbbuttonsd restart too... If you run powerprefs you should see that the Keyboard Illumination tabs are activated. If the tabs are greyed out it means pbbuttonsd doesn't see that you have a backlight available. It might be worth checking your k

Re: Booting/ installing Debian on a G3 with Open Firmware 2.4

2006-06-26 Thread Daniel Gimpelevich
On Sat, 24 Jun 2006 15:41:36 -0700, Jason Self wrote: > On 6/24/06, Michael Fuckner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The Machine seems to be only netbootable > > The beige G3 is also able to boot from CD. Insert CD and hold down "C" > on the keyboard while the machine powers up, searches for startup