Re: miboot-floppies (powerpc oldworld) for sarge

2006-12-20 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 20, 2006, at 7:17 AM, Sven Luther wrote: Well, i think what would be interesting is maybe to have a wiki page, listing a cross table of all tested models, and the different boot methods, and listing the working reports and not working ones, or something. Then give out a call for te

Re: Airport Extreme Support

2006-12-20 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hello Yves-Alexis, Yves-Alexis Perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On jeu, 2006-12-14 at 20:48 +, Marco Stagno wrote: >> I'm able to make it works without encryption, but I have several >> troubles >> with WPA (I'm using wpa_supplicant).. it seems the driver doesn't >> support >> something...

Re: More Powerbook Questions.

2006-12-20 Thread Michael Schmitz
> Maybe the nvidia card isn't able to be put to sleep. In any case you may > want to try pbbuttonsd (or lighter, pmud). Both of these require functional kernel sleep support - the kernel will tell you if it cannot sleep. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

Re: miboot-floppies (powerpc oldworld) for sarge

2006-12-20 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 07:05:46AM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: > Hi Sven, > > > On Dec 20, 2006, at 2:16 AM, Sven Luther wrote: > > >What is really needed is for confirmation with the current kernels > >that : > > > > 1) miboot booting works (or not). > > > > 2) bootx booting works (or not). >

Re: miboot-floppies (powerpc oldworld) for sarge

2006-12-20 Thread Rick Thomas
Hi Sven, On Dec 20, 2006, at 2:16 AM, Sven Luther wrote: What is really needed is for confirmation with the current kernels that : 1) miboot booting works (or not). 2) bootx booting works (or not). 3) quik booting works (or not). Rick, you have been rather active in this, could i a

Re: create Apple_bootstrap and Apple_partition_map partitions with sfdisk ?

2006-12-20 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 12:42:24AM +0100, Benoit Chesneau wrote: > Hi all, > > Is there an easy way to create create Apple_bootstrap and > Apple_partition_map partitions with sfdisk > ? It seems that sfdisk don't support this format. Or am I wrong? Is there > any other way to script creation of pa

Re: unable to boot Motorola Powerstack II

2006-12-20 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 09:03:22PM +0100, Matthias Koch-Schirrmeister wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I'm trying to boot Debian sarge 3.1 rc4 on an elderly Motorola Powerstack > II 604e (PReP/Utah). According to the Debian pages, this system should be > supported. > > I downloaded the current floppy i

Re: miboot-floppies (powerpc oldworld) for sarge

2006-12-20 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Wednesday 20 December 2006 07:43, Rick Thomas wrote: > Not to put words into his mouth, but I think that is what Holger is > saying. For the purpose the Sarge floppyset serves, it's enough to > have just a 2.4 kernel for the installer. Yes. > Holger seems to reply "Why bother?" I rather

Re: miboot-floppies (powerpc oldworld) for sarge

2006-12-20 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Wednesday 20 December 2006 00:25, Rick Thomas wrote: > There are plenty of OldWorld Macs out there (I own 6 of them) that > would benefit from a kernel 2.6 bootable Sarge floppy-set. How?`Are you really sure the 2.4 floppies don't work with them? What I forgot to say in my mail yesterday,

Re: miboot-floppies (powerpc oldworld) for sarge

2006-12-20 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Wednesday 20 December 2006 04:09, John Schmidt wrote: > I have an oldworld ppc that can't boot from cdrom that would benefit from > sarge miboot floppies. download them from http://layer-acht.org/d-i-miboot/ regards, Holger pgp1HPYA1i1ja.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: More Powerbook Questions.

2006-12-20 Thread Andy Wingo
Hi Matthew, On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 18:52 -0500, Matthew Gracie wrote: > 2) Is suspend-to-RAM supported on this machine at all? I have a 6,8 (12" 1.67 GHz), and afaik with nvidia cards the answer is no. However you can get suspend-to-disk working; I have it working with swsusp2. What happens when

Airport Extreme keeps falling asleep on me...

2006-12-20 Thread Justin Hartman
Yesterday I bought a new Netgear Cable/DSL 54mbps Wireless Router (WGR614IS) and setup a small home network that connects to my DSL ppp service. Everything went smoothly the wireless was up and running in no time. The problem however is that I my airport card seems to go into sleep mode instantly