Re: Firmware for Broadcom BCM4318 Wireless LAN Controller

On Thu, Sep 26, 2024 at 9:54 AM Steffen Grunewald wrote: > > On Thu, 2024-09-26 at 14:37:47 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > [...] > > > You will need to add "unreleased" to your sources.list to use it: > > > > deb http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports/ unreleased main > > Many

Re: Firmware for Broadcom BCM4318 Wireless LAN Controller

Hi all, hi John, thanks to the new package b43-fwcutter the wlan works as expected. Many thanks to John Glaubitz! Now I can report, that the iMac G5 works with Debian Trixie/Sid: Hardware from hwinfo: cpu: PPC970FX, altivec supported, 2100 MHz monitor: Apple

Bug#1082800: python-greenlet: FTBFS on powerpc which is fixed in 3.1.1 upstream

Source: python-greenlet Version: 3.1.0-1 Severity: normal User: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Usertags: powerpc X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Hi, python-greenlet currently FTBFS on powerpc during the testsuite [1]: dh_auto_test I: pybuild base:311: cd /<>/.pybuild/cpython3_3.12

Re: Firmware for Broadcom BCM4318 Wireless LAN Controller

On Thu, 2024-09-26 at 15:53 +0200, Steffen Grunewald wrote: > > I will build the package manually and upload it to "unreleased" for both > > powerpc > > and ppc64. It will be available by tonight. > > Even better! ;-) > > You will need to add "unreleased" to your sources.list to use it: > > >

Re: Installing on PowerBook G4 - grub failure

On Thu, 2024-09-26 at 13:09:00 +0100, Ed Robbins wrote: > FWIW on most of my machines "boot ud:,\\yaboot" will boot from USB, > but not all of them. > > On Thu, 26 Sept 2024 at 12:47, Steffen Grunewald > wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2024-09-24 at 12:42:02 +0100, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: > > > > There ar

Re: Firmware for Broadcom BCM4318 Wireless LAN Controller

On Thu, 2024-09-26 at 14:37:47 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hi Claudia, > > On Thu, 2024-09-26 at 14:00 +0200, Claudia Neumann wrote: > > I downloaded firmware-b43-installer but cannot install it, because it wants > > b43-fwcutter. > > This package is only available für ppc64el not f

Re: Firmware for Broadcom BCM4318 Wireless LAN Controller

Great! Thx CU Claudia Neumann Am Donnerstag, 26. September 2024, 14:37:47 CEST schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz: > Hi Claudia, > > On Thu, 2024-09-26 at 14:00 +0200, Claudia Neumann wrote: > > I succeeded in installing Debian trixie/sid on an iMac G5 with Radeon > > X550/X600 graphic card. I

Re: Firmware for Broadcom BCM4318 Wireless LAN Controller

Hi Claudia, On Thu, 2024-09-26 at 14:00 +0200, Claudia Neumann wrote: > I succeeded in installing Debian trixie/sid on an iMac G5 with Radeon > X550/X600 graphic > card. I am using Xfce and Links2 as webbrowser. > > Now I need wireless LAN. It has an Broadcom BCM4318 (AirForce One 54g) > 802.1

Re: Installing on PowerBook G4 - grub failure

FWIW on most of my machines "boot ud:,\\yaboot" will boot from USB, but not all of them. On Thu, 26 Sept 2024 at 12:47, Steffen Grunewald wrote: > > On Tue, 2024-09-24 at 12:42:02 +0100, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: > > > There are hints in some forum threads that the A1095 indeed may be one of > > >

Firmware for Broadcom BCM4318 Wireless LAN Controller

Hi John, hi all, I succeeded in installing Debian trixie/sid on an iMac G5 with Radeon X550/X600 graphic card. I am using Xfce and Links2 as webbrowser. Now I need wireless LAN. It has an Broadcom BCM4318 (AirForce One 54g) 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller. I downloaded firmware-b43-installe

Re: Installing on PowerBook G4 - grub failure

On Tue, 2024-09-24 at 12:42:02 +0100, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: > > There are hints in some forum threads that the A1095 indeed may be one of > > few (perhaps the only?) G4 models that cannot boot from USB. > > BootROM version is 4.8.6f0, fwiw. > > That's frustrating. Can you confirm which partition