Re: Ethernet Card Recognition under PPC 8.2 on OldWorld G3
Le jeu 24/07/2003 à 17:55, Stew Benedict a écrit : > Still using the installer "stuff". There should be system kernels and > initrds in the BootX folder on the CD - no? (memeory is fading on 8.2, and > I don't have a disk handy). Yep. I copied these (well I had to unstuff the img initrd file first) from the BootX folder on the CD into the folder where bootx presumably looks for them, but it didn't appear to find them. I could still only choose vmlinuz or vmlinuz2.2 from the bootx menu. I'll have to wait until next week now to try again - it's a good job that this is the first machine I'm trying this on, since it's also the oldest. THe others are more recent, so with any luck the installation process should be a bit easier. Thanks anyway for all your help. Alex.
Other Kernels (than those included in 9.1)?
All, I am wondering if there are "other" kernels out there that would solve some of the problems I am having with 9.1. I have tried both 2.4.21-0.13mdk and 2.4.20-benh-9mdk on my G3 (Pismo) power book, and both have problems. The standard kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk exhibits: 1. Powerbook locks up upon wake up. I did run the apm_emu, but this doesn't solve the problem, and I don't really believe it is an X problem, because the airport interface doesn't wake up (I can't ping the PB) either. 2. PCMCIA doesn't work with ide-cs.o (a camera flash card). Neither kernel works actually. I get a nice lengthy dump, which I can post, but I would rather have a kernel (and modules) which work. 3. MOL networking doesn't work. Ping works, but larger packets (like web surfing) don't make it out of MOL Ben's Kernel 2.4.20-benh-9mdk seems to have the PCMCIA problem (very similar dumps), and today I was having problem mounting multiformat CDs (iso9660 & hfs). The automounter (which runs as part of nautilus, or so it appears) doesn't mount the CD properly. Root can mount the cd explicitly with a mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom. But that is a pain. I have used easy urpmi to point to the core distro, external addons, even PLF. Doing a urpmq -r kernel yields only the 2 kernels (listed above). So, is anyone using a kernel other than these two, on a G3 (Pismo) PB, and have these things, which I have listed, working? I don't even mind compiling a kernel, but it would be nice to know that someone else actually had it working first. Thanks for the help, Craig...
Re: Ethernet Card Recognition under PPC 8.2 on OldWorld G3
On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Alex Thurgood wrote: > Le jeu 24/07/2003 à 14:51, Stew Benedict a écrit : > > > Ahh, > > > > Seems we all overlooked the obvious. This is the core of all your various > > issues with network, sound etc. You're booting with the installer kernel > > (BOOT is the clue, although INSTALL would probably be better). Get the > > appropriate system kernel and initrd from the BootX folder on CD1 to boot > > the system. There are no modules for the install kernel installed on the > > system. It's only intended use is for the installer. > > > When you say "get", do you mean "set" via the BootX config panel, or do > you mean copy the kernel and initrd from the CD1 on to the hard disk ? > Get from CD -> wherever you keep kernels in MacOS > Or do I have to set the kernel boot options from within PPC via DrakConf > ? Nope - MacOS only thing. In BootX all the boot parameters are controlled from the MacOS side. > > In the BootX config panel, I can only choose to boot vmlinuz or vmlinuz > 2.2, and if I choose RAMDISK, I have a choice of four possibilities, > none of which correspond to the 2.4.18 kernel (unless I'm missing > something obvious here). > Still using the installer "stuff". There should be system kernels and initrds in the BootX folder on the CD - no? (memeory is fading on 8.2, and I don't have a disk handy). -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Re: Ethernet Card Recognition under PPC 8.2 on OldWorld G3
Le jeu 24/07/2003 à 14:51, Stew Benedict a écrit : > Ahh, > > Seems we all overlooked the obvious. This is the core of all your various > issues with network, sound etc. You're booting with the installer kernel > (BOOT is the clue, although INSTALL would probably be better). Get the > appropriate system kernel and initrd from the BootX folder on CD1 to boot > the system. There are no modules for the install kernel installed on the > system. It's only intended use is for the installer. When you say "get", do you mean "set" via the BootX config panel, or do you mean copy the kernel and initrd from the CD1 on to the hard disk ? Or do I have to set the kernel boot options from within PPC via DrakConf ? In the BootX config panel, I can only choose to boot vmlinuz or vmlinuz 2.2, and if I choose RAMDISK, I have a choice of four possibilities, none of which correspond to the 2.4.18 kernel (unless I'm missing something obvious here). Alex. -- Alex Thurgood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: Ethernet Card Recognition under PPC 8.2 on OldWorld G3
On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Alex Thurgood wrote: > Le lun 21/07/2003 à 02:54, Stew Benedict a écrit : > > > > Could be. Try using drakconnect without going through harddrake. > > Harddrake isn't too terrible useful on PPC anyway. > > Hi Stew, > > Sorry this is taking so long, but I've only got access to the machine 1 > day per week. I've just noticed that when I start "draknet" from a > console as root, I get the following message : > > "Can't open dependencies file /lib/modules/2.4.18-4mdkBOOT/modules.dep" > > I've also noticed this error message on boot up of the machine. It turns > out that something somewhere is telling the programs look in > 2.4.18-4mdkBOOT whereas this doesn't actually exist at all. My question > then is this : where can I change the path to the correct modules.dep > file ? Do I have to use depmod and specify the path ? If so, how do I > get that to work on every boot ? > Ahh, Seems we all overlooked the obvious. This is the core of all your various issues with network, sound etc. You're booting with the installer kernel (BOOT is the clue, although INSTALL would probably be better). Get the appropriate system kernel and initrd from the BootX folder on CD1 to boot the system. There are no modules for the install kernel installed on the system. It's only intended use is for the installer. -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Re: Ethernet Card Recognition under PPC 8.2 on OldWorld G3
Le lun 21/07/2003 à 02:54, Stew Benedict a écrit : > Could be. Try using drakconnect without going through harddrake. > Harddrake isn't too terrible useful on PPC anyway. Hi Stew, Sorry this is taking so long, but I've only got access to the machine 1 day per week. I've just noticed that when I start "draknet" from a console as root, I get the following message : "Can't open dependencies file /lib/modules/2.4.18-4mdkBOOT/modules.dep" I've also noticed this error message on boot up of the machine. It turns out that something somewhere is telling the programs look in 2.4.18-4mdkBOOT whereas this doesn't actually exist at all. My question then is this : where can I change the path to the correct modules.dep file ? Do I have to use depmod and specify the path ? If so, how do I get that to work on every boot ? Alex. -- Alex Thurgood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
