Re: PowerBook

2000-06-14 Thread Brendan Simon
Nelson Abramson wrote: Brendan Simon wrote: > Harold G. Stevenson wrote: > > > > 2- any suggestions on installing and running debian? > Get a bootable CD if one exists. When I installed Debian there was no > CD available so I _HAD_ to install MacOs on a small partition (1GB), put > yaboot, th

X Trouble

2000-06-14 Thread Edwin Rudolph
I just installed potato on my PowerBook and am having some trouble with getting the X server to work right. I first tried to fire up X with the default FBDev server, and that didn't work at all. The only way I could get X going was to use the Xpmac server from LinuxPPC. Moreover, if I left the v

Re: PowerBook

2000-06-14 Thread Nelson Abramson
Brendan Simon wrote: > Harold G. Stevenson wrote: > > > > 2- any suggestions on installing and running debian? > Get a bootable CD if one exists. When I installed Debian there was no > CD available so I _HAD_ to install MacOs on a small partition (1GB), put > yaboot, the kernel from Ben H and th

Re: PowerBook

2000-06-14 Thread Brendan Simon
Harold G. Stevenson wrote: 2- any suggestions on installing and running debian? Get a bootable CD if one exists.   When I installed Debian there was no CD available so I _HAD_ to install MacOs on a small partition (1GB), put yaboot, the kernel from Ben H and the base2_2.tgz on the Mac partitio

Re: Newbie boot question for powerpc 9500

2000-06-14 Thread Martin Costabel
Stephen Judd wrote: > > Rainer Dorsch wrote: [] > > Since the powermac did not boot from the rescue disk (but ejected it!) > > I downloaded BootX_1.2.2.sit. When I wanted to start it, a program > > called stuffit came up and complained that the archive is not in > > stuffit format (I downloaded it

Re: Newbie boot question for powerpc 9500

2000-06-14 Thread Stephen Judd
Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > Hello everybody, > > I am new to Linux on the powerPC architecture, but I have considerable > experience with Debian on i386. I thought installation should be more > or less the same as on i386, but I was wrong. It seems to be essentail > to know the mac to get started. I

Newbie boot question for powerpc 9500

2000-06-14 Thread Rainer Dorsch
Hello everybody, I am new to Linux on the powerPC architecture, but I have considerable experience with Debian on i386. I thought installation should be more or less the same as on i386, but I was wrong. It seems to be essentail to know the mac to get started. I failed already in the first step: b

Re: ALERT: AirPort 1.2 update breaks WaveLAN (wvlan0)

2000-06-14 Thread Mike James
Hi, Ben-- On 6/14/00 at 7:37 PM +0200 you wrote: On Wed, Jun 14, 2000, Mike James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: WaveLAN-in-Linux users, alert: > Updating from AirPort 1.1 to AirPort 1.2 breaks WaveLAN > networking on the Linux side (apparently). Did you contact the maintainer of the

PowerBook

2000-06-14 Thread Harold G. Stevenson
hi, I'm shopping for an Apple PowerBook 500MHz 128MB 12GB hard drive. 1- can anyone suggest where to buy it at lowest cost? 2- any suggestions on installing and running debian? thank you for your help. from tucson-:)) harold

Re: ALERT: AirPort 1.2 update breaks WaveLAN (wvlan0)

2000-06-14 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, Jun 14, 2000, Mike James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >WaveLAN-in-Linux users, alert: > >Updating from AirPort 1.1 to AirPort 1.2 breaks WaveLAN networking on >the Linux side (apparently). > >For some time now, WaveLAN->AirPort networking in Linux has been >working great on my PB G3. But a

ALERT: AirPort 1.2 update breaks WaveLAN (wvlan0)

2000-06-14 Thread Mike James
Hi, everyone-- WaveLAN-in-Linux users, alert: Updating from AirPort 1.1 to AirPort 1.2 breaks WaveLAN networking on the Linux side (apparently). For some time now, WaveLAN->AirPort networking in Linux has been working great on my PB G3. But as soon as I updated to the new AirPort 1.2 on the