Re: help with airport card on g3 powerbook

2005-09-11 Thread gm c
The question of the encription key has been brought up. I have connected to the ap (base station) with the card using os9. The card and ap should work with linux. As I understand, when the module(s) for the airport card are installed I can iwconfig in a terminal and see the essid and key etc. for

Re: help with airport card on g3 powerbook

2005-09-10 Thread gm c
I tried the live cd with the same results as my installed sys. I do not get connected and when I use iwconfig the ap is not recognized. My boot message /var/log/dmesg eth1: station 001f:0001:0008:0026 : lucent/agere firmware v8.4 : ad-hock supported 104bit key :mac 00:10:c6:66:75:8b

Re: help with airport card on g3 powerbook

2005-09-08 Thread gm c
> > > > > On Sep 7, 2005, at 5:47 AM, Matthias Grimm wrote: > > > > > If you don't use the Apple base station you have to disable > encrypted > > > communication in the acces point, because the original Apple > Airport > > > card only supports 40Bit WEP which is not longer supported by > rece

Re: help with airport card on g3 powerbook

2005-09-05 Thread gm c
> On my system (Pismo g3 iBook 600) my airport card is eth0, eth1 is > my > ethernet port. > I never used iwconfig, simply set the options I posted previously, > directly > in /etc/network/interfaces, then ran > ifdown eth0 > ifup eth0 > > Isn't wireless-ap for an access point? If you're only

Re: help with airport card on g3 powerbook

2005-09-04 Thread gm c
- > > > > > > when I iwconfig eth1 the ap is all 4's or all 0's. If I > iwconfig > > > essid, mode, key, and ap the ap is not get recognized. > > > what am I missing??? I am not using extreme card, but orig. I am loading airport module. modprobe airport --which also loads orinoco and yenta-socket

help with airport card on g3 powerbook

2005-09-04 Thread gm c
I am unable to get my airport card to connect to a wireless base station. I am using /etc/network/interfaces. iface eth1 inet dhcp wireless-essid myessid wireless-mode managed wireless-key mykey wireless-ap myap when I iwconfig eth1 the ap is all 4's or all 0's. If I iwconfig essid, mode, k

yaboot-o.f. usage?

2005-05-26 Thread gm c
my yaboot is 1.3.13-3 at boot: I can boot a configured kernel like boot:hd:12,/vmlinux-c An installed kernel boots ok if I put the label vmlinux after the boot: from the yaboot.conf file. image=/vmlinux label=vmlinux root=/dev/hda12 initrd=initrd.img It will not boot with boot:hd:12,/vmlinux

Re: autoload modules

2005-05-09 Thread gm c
My question (concern) is of auto loading not auto unloading. I too hope someone knows something about this and responds. mike --- Tommy Trussell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/9/05, gm c <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I tried your /etc/modprobe.d/sound file with alias

Re: autoload modules

2005-05-09 Thread gm c
I tried your /etc/modprobe.d/sound file with alias sound-slot-0 snd-powermac. It doesnt auto load the module when I open xmms to play a sound file. I does load it on bootup which is strange. mike --- Tommy Trussell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/7/05, Tommy Trussell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: autoload modules

2005-05-04 Thread gm c
It is my understanding that modules will auto load with an appropriate alias in /etc/modprobe.d/alias for 2.6.x. I have not been able to get snd-powermac to load when I use xmms to play sound. Any ideas? mike Yahoo! Mail Stay connected, organized, and protected. Take the

load sound module (2.6)

2005-04-29 Thread gm c
I would like to load sound module (snd-powermac or dmasound_pmac) when I atempt to play a sound file rather than on bootup. My google search has given me information that I have tried with no success. Is there anyone that is able to load sound module on demand that can tell me there configuration

alias module hell

2005-04-21 Thread gm c
I have g3 powerbook with debian unstable and 2.6.10. I can modprobe snd-powermac and a bunch of modules load. I then run xmms with alsa and play a file ok. After removing sound modules- I put alias snd-card-0 snd-powermac in /etc/modprobe.d/alias and/or /etc/modutils/sound (run update-modules) and

record mic and linein on powerbook G3

2005-03-04 Thread gm c
I was wondering if it is now possible to record from the mic or linein on the powerbook G3 pismo? If so , how? mike Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web

Re: user login problem

2005-01-28 Thread gm c
--- Moritz Armingeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi mike > > On 13:24 Mon 24 Jan , gm c wrote: > > I am using unstable. I cannot login as a user, can as root. I was > > getting pam_start errors and I copied some files to /etc/pam.d > that > > had dp

user login problem

2005-01-24 Thread gm c
I am using unstable. I cannot login as a user, can as root. I was getting pam_start errors and I copied some files to /etc/pam.d that had dpkg-dist at the end of their names. I dont get the errors any more but the login for user fails. Dont know if it is a different problem but I get a error mess

help using gconfig

2004-12-30 Thread gm c
I want to use gconfig, I found info saying I needed gtk+ which means( libgtk2.0, libglib2.0, libgdk2.0) installed. I had 1.2 of these libs installed but it still wouldnt work. So, I installed 2.0. gconfig now tries to run but it stops after errors like GTk-critical: file gtklocaland Glib-Gobje

Re: kernel config problems

2004-04-19 Thread gm c
--- simon raven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On sam, 2004-04-17 at 12:07 -0700, gm c wrote: > > I have a g3 powerbook firewire. I have been configuring kernels > (not > > the deb way though) with out problems on stable. I am trying an > > unstable install and want t

kernel config problems

2004-04-17 Thread gm c
I have a g3 powerbook firewire. I have been configuring kernels (not the deb way though) with out problems on stable. I am trying an unstable install and want to use a 2.4.x and 2.6.x kernel. Errors I getconfiguring a 2.4.25: When I make xconfig it quits with error -make: wish:command not found. W

2.6 help please

2004-01-02 Thread gm c
I have debian on powerbook g3 pismo with woody. I want to try a 2.6 kernel. I downloaded it. When I run make vmlinux I get error that binutils needs to be greater than 2.12.1, but when I dpkg -l binutils I get version 2.12.90- . Seems to me it should work??   For the packet people---what 2.6 kernel

3.0r0 stable or unstable

2003-10-28 Thread gm c
I bought 3.0r0 soon after it came out. I never noticed until yesterday that when I apt-cdrom the cdroms are listed in sources.list as unstable. Why is that? I have been reading how to setup apt sources and preferences for using stable and testing (or testing and unstable). How do I use the cdroms p

? alias usb storage usb-storage?

2003-10-25 Thread gm c
Is "alias usb storage usb-storage" the correct wording for modules.conf for the module usb-storage.o to be loaded when a storage device is plugged into the usb connection??? If not what??? Do you Yahoo!? Exclusive Video Premiere - Britney Spears

Subject: Power management support in ALSA PowerMac audio driver?

2003-10-05 Thread gm c
To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Subject: Power management support in ALSA PowerMac audio driver? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Derrik Pates) Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 09:32:59 -0400 Message-id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Old-return-path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> User-agent: Mutt/1.3.28i I've recently acqu

re:please explain to me

2003-10-04 Thread gm c
On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 12:56:11PM -0700, gm c wrote: > example: for my powerbooks ethernet hardware- how do I know that it should > be : > alias eth0 gmac Use this, because the device name is eth0. Though I prefer to use discover, and just let it load the sungem driver at boot.---Is

keycode question

2003-10-04 Thread gm c
I have a g3 powerbook-pismo. I read somewhere the codes 97 and 100 (I think) for fn+alt and fn+ctl which I prefer over 86 and 87- f11 and f12. I was wondering how 97 and 100 were determined sinse when I use the fn+ anything showkey does not print anything.   Also -- what "environment variable" does

please explain to me

2003-10-01 Thread gm c
I have a g3 powerbook -firewire (pismo). I would appreciate someone explain to me how to find or determine the proper terms to use when associating a module to something the kernel will recognize. example: for my powerbooks ethernet hardware- how do I know that it should be : alias eth0 gmac o

?how to stop beeps at X startup

2003-08-26 Thread gm c
My pwerbook boots to gdm login. Immediatly before that screen the message says : #start gdm #do not start xdm #do not start kdm At this time the powerbook beeps three times. one high tone- one lower tone- one high tone. fairly quickly. I want to stop the beeps. I was trying to find the lines th

pmud configure ?

2003-08-26 Thread gm c
before I change my pmud control for time to begin sleep (pmud -K -l 200 -m 15) I would like to be able to read what the values are first (what file do I read ) . I also dont understand where to read or set whether power savings is at minimum, medium, maximum. __

re:kernel patch problem

2003-08-18 Thread gm c
I figured out the answer to why I couldnt apply the patch to my kernel-- I had been trying to patch the file in /usr/src/linux-2.4.20 that I had made several ppc kernels from. What I did that worked was to backup the dir linux-2.4.20 to linux20-bak, then unzip the kernel package again at /usr/sr

patching kernel question

2003-08-13 Thread gm c
I have a g3pb with deb 3.0. I downloaded kernel 2.4.20. Configured a pmac kernel. I downloaded patch 2.4.21. When patch p0 < patch-2.4.21 is finished my make file says it is 2.4.20. I dont have config.in.rej but I do have defconfig.rej. It list a couple of items with a + or - to the left but I

Re: no sound from audio cd

2003-07-04 Thread gm c
Quoting gm c <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I cant get sound from audio cd using XMMS. If I enable the cdaudio > input plugin I can see the tracks listed in the "load file" window when > I select play-file,but no sound. When > cdaudio is deselected and cdread is enabled

no sound from audio cd

2003-06-19 Thread gm c
I cant get sound from audio cd using XMMS. If I enable the cdaudio input plugin I can see the tracks listed in the "load file" window when I select play-file,but no sound. When cdaudio is deselected and cdread is enabled and I select play-file, no tracks from cd are shown in the "load file" wi