Re: Re: New to PPC

2002-12-13 Thread Eric C. Cooper
On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 10:52:36AM -0500, Shawn Powers wrote: > is there a "way" I'm supposed to add the "alias eth0 gmac" into the > modules.conf? I just used nano, and typed it in at the bottom, > ignoring the warnings not to modify the file... Should it have gone > in a specific place in the f

[Solved (I think)]New to PPC

2002-12-13 Thread Shawn Powers
I'm not home to test the airport card -- but here's what I did to get both recognized: I changed the "alias eth0 gmac" to "alias eth1 gmac" -- apparently the airport card really really wants to be eth0. So be it. :) I can just write a little script to take eth1 down and bring eth0 up when I go h

RE: Re: New to PPC

2002-12-13 Thread Shawn Powers
First off -- never had such fast responses from a list before, you guys are great. Even a response from Ben of the benh kernel. ;) As I paint myself more and more as a newbie -- is there a "way" I'm supposed to add the "alias eth0 gmac" into the modules.conf? I just used nano, and typed it in at

RE: Re: New to PPC

2002-12-13 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 16:14, Shawn Powers wrote: > debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org said: > >> benh kernel -- ethernet is broken. (I did add the alias gmac eth0 > >> line to modules.conf, didnt' help) > > > > That should be "alias eth0 gmac" > > My typo -- I remembered what I had done wrong, but I

RE: Re: New to PPC

2002-12-13 Thread Shawn Powers
debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org said: >> benh kernel -- ethernet is broken. (I did add the alias gmac eth0 >> line to modules.conf, didnt' help) > > That should be "alias eth0 gmac" My typo -- I remembered what I had done wrong, but I did actually put it in correctly, and it didnt' work. However

Re: New to PPC

2002-12-13 Thread Bastien Nocera
Hi, On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 14:28, Shawn Powers wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm new to the debian crowd, but have been the sysadmin of many RedHat > servers for years. I have an original 66Mhz bus "snow" ibook, and > desperately want to use debian on it. I assure you I have tried to RTFM > (mailing l

New to PPC

2002-12-13 Thread Shawn Powers
Hello all, I'm new to the debian crowd, but have been the sysadmin of many RedHat servers for years. I have an original 66Mhz bus "snow" ibook, and desperately want to use debian on it. I assure you I have tried to RTFM (mailing list archive, google searches, install guides, etc) for a long time