Re: failed to install a debian netinst (etch) on an old G4 (400mhz)

2005-12-08 Thread Charles Plessy
On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 08:20:13AM +0100, Nicolas Hognon wrote : > > > I think that you have to tell partman that the partition #2 is a neworld > >bootstrap partition. Just select its as if you wanted to put a filesystem > >on > >it, bootstrap is in the list. > > > >Partman will then format it,

Re: [ANN] Broadcom Wireless Chipsets reverse engineered

2005-12-08 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > > driver bug in bcm43xx_phy_setupg() (line 333 bcm43xx_phy.c) but the code > > > seems to carry on successfully in that case. Do you see something like > > > that as well? > > > > Yes, same thing here. > > That's bogus. the code there is correct afaict. I still see the message. After adding wi

Re: [ANN] Broadcom Wireless Chipsets reverse engineered

2005-12-08 Thread Jesus Climent
On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 01:40:04PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote: > While a lot of work remains to be done (mostly on the softmac, read on), > a bunch of people are actually using the driver under linux now to get > access to the internet. So here's the official announcement: > > http://bcm-specs.sip

Re: remote control dual booting OSX / Debian

2005-12-08 Thread Michael Schmitz
> I've found these two scripts useful for remotely switching between > os's on a dual-boot new-world mac. The scripts require a sudo > environment. They run from the command line, and do not require > access to the system (yaboot) console. > > After the scripts are two aliases I use to have a fo

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Re: Linux PPC & OS alternatives to skype

2005-12-08 Thread Maurizio
Hello. In case someone of you does not now, this might be interesting http://www.openwengo.com/support/forum/viewtopic.php?t=118 Maurizio

Re: Linux PPC & OS alternatives to skype

2005-12-08 Thread Andrea Lusuardi - UoVoBW
On Thu, 8 Dec 2005 08:09:27 -0800 Maurizio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello. In case someone of you does not now, > this might be interesting > > http://www.openwengo.com/support/forum/viewtopic.php?t=118 that's a nice one, also take a look at the gaim-vv project: http://gaim-vv.sourceforge.n

Re: wrong info on BootX and initrd kernels in installation manual?

2005-12-08 Thread Geert Stappers
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 10:13:24AM +0100, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 12:07:28AM -0800, Derek wrote: > > I am having this same problem on my old world.Im still not quite sure > > how to fix it.Can anyone explain exactly how I should have bootx set > > up? > > I looked up the inst

Re: [ANN] Broadcom Wireless Chipsets reverse engineered

2005-12-08 Thread Otavio Salvador
Jesus Climent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The max. transfer ratio i get is around 500KB/s, but it is better than a > zd1211 which seems to Oops my kernel and poweroff my machine every other time > i connect with it. I use the zd1211 adapted that I bought there in Finland and it works pretty fin

Re: [ANN] Broadcom Wireless Chipsets reverse engineered

2005-12-08 Thread Johannes Berg
On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 13:19 +0100, Jesus Climent wrote: > The max. transfer ratio i get is around 500KB/s, Sounds pretty bad. But then, we don't do any time synchronisation yet, so you'll probably have quite a few collisions. What bitrate are you using? johannes signature.asc Description: This

Re: Re: Re: Powermac G5 yaboot install failed

2005-12-08 Thread john fisher
I don't have a very good answer on the Sarge kernel or package. I tried the 31R04 netinstall iso, which is Sid? This 31R04 crashed on boot. I *think* this means the Sid kernel won't run on the latest PowerMac G5 dual proc. So I *think* this means the only candidate for this hardware is the latest

Sudo seg faults

2005-12-08 Thread john fisher
brand-new PowerMac G5 dual proc. Loaded with testing PPC Dec5 2.6.12-1-powerpc64 and deb loads from the testing distro sudoers file edited for user build. when user build executes sudo -H /usr/sbin/chroot buildenv/potato or sudo -H /usr/sbin/chroot buildenv/potato /root/.start I get "Segmentati

Re: BootX, beige G3 and kernel 2.6

2005-12-08 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 07:36:30PM +0100, Frédéric Massot wrote: > Hi, > > After having tried without success to boot with Quik, I test with BootX > (ver. 1.2.2). Linux boot already with BootX and the kernel (2.2.20-pmac) > of the Woody installer (linux.bin and ramdisk.image.gz). > > I compiled

Re: Re: Powermac G5 yaboot install failed

2005-12-08 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, john fisher wrote: Ken, I haven't tried "ofpath /dev/sda4" but it may be useful in a few minutes. It was only to find out if you had the unpatched version of it. As Shyamal remarked, it doesn't like dev/sdX (since the 2.6.12 kernel changes). If you've got a version

d-i kernel

2005-12-08 Thread Johannes Berg
Hi, Looking into installing on a hires powerbook, which kernel version do the d-i images now have? johannes signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Sudo seg faults

2005-12-08 Thread john fisher
Further info: when running sudo -H /usr/sbin/chroot buildenv/potato /bin/bash (su to root then chroot to the ~buildenv/potato dir, then run ~buildenv/potato/bin/bash ) bash and some other common utilities seg fault, but a few run. ldd bash shows exactly the same libraries for both copies.(?) I g

Re: [ANN] Broadcom Wireless Chipsets reverse engineered

2005-12-08 Thread Jesus Climent
On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 06:48:37PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 13:19 +0100, Jesus Climent wrote: > > > The max. transfer ratio i get is around 500KB/s, > > Sounds pretty bad. But then, we don't do any time synchronisation yet, > so you'll probably have quite a few collisio

Re: failed to install a debian netinst (etch) on an old G4 (400mhz)

2005-12-08 Thread Nicolas Hognon
Charles Plessy wrote: > In my case, I had a similar problem and I actually reformatted the partition 2 in hfs+ format using the osX installation disk. Actually, as the partition tables did not look exactly the same, I re-partitionned the whole drive, to be on the safe side (this means re-install

Re: [ANN] Broadcom Wireless Chipsets reverse engineered

2005-12-08 Thread Jesus Climent
On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 03:28:16PM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: > Jesus Climent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The max. transfer ratio i get is around 500KB/s, but it is better than a > > zd1211 which seems to Oops my kernel and poweroff my machine every other > > time > > i connect with it.

Re: [ANN] Broadcom Wireless Chipsets reverse engineered

2005-12-08 Thread Johannes Berg
On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 00:57 +0100, Jesus Climent wrote: > 54M, using "iwconfig eth2 rate 54M" try going to 11M. Yeah sounds weird. johannes signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Potato won't chroot on Etch

2005-12-08 Thread john fisher
PowerPC G5 dual proc running 2.6.12-1-powerpc-smp with Etch testing install trying to run a potato chroot enviro. I have to run as root inside the chroot ( security not at issue) potato's bash ( & etc) won't run ( seg fault) some potato utilities do run, however. tried: kernel 2.6.8 but it wo

Re: Re: Re: Powermac G5 yaboot install failed

2005-12-08 Thread Charles Plessy
On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 11:26:58AM -0800, john fisher wrote : > I don't have a very good answer on the Sarge kernel or package. I tried > the 31R04 netinstall iso, which is Sid? This 31R04 crashed on boot. I > *think* this means the Sid kernel won't run on the latest PowerMac G5 > dual proc. > > S