Re: Airport Extreme Linux support [was: Apple iBook G4 GNU/Linux (Debian) compatibility?]

2004-02-22 Thread Eric Lemoine
- Airport Extreme: not working, and apparently, might never work (no drivers, no specs, uncaring broadcom company). Any information on an open-source driver/work-around (with binary driver from OS X or something!?)? Nope, nothing yet, could never work. :[ For those who do

Re: xcdroast-scsi bus

2004-02-22 Thread Michael Schmitz
On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 09:42:47AM -0500, Adrian Crisan wrote: How can I fix this? I mean to have the cdrw turned on after boot and be seen by my debian system. Thanks, _adrian_ You shouldn't do that. The built-in SCSI controller on this (and every other with onboard SCSI) Macintosh is not

Fwd: Re: Airport Extreme Linux support [was: Apple iBook G4 GNU/Linux (Debian) compatibility?]

2004-02-22 Thread Sbastien FRANOIS
---BeginMessage--- Hello, I got MOL to work yesterday and I was wondering if through it, one could use the airport extreme driver, I don't have the card so I won't be able to try but if someone is interested, informations about installing MOL were added to the howto

user processes shell scripts

2004-02-22 Thread nico dreher
Dear List, I am looking for commands that show information about the user, that identify the user, So far I have collected these examples: # obtain information about user finger USERNAME # show processes running under a certain user ps -aux | grep USERNAME # show files that are open and are

Re: user processes shell scripts

2004-02-22 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from nico dreher: What do you use? w and top; once in the latter, press u and type the user's name. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling - -

Re: user processes shell scripts

2004-02-22 Thread Albert Cahalan
On Sun, 2004-02-22 at 11:53, nico dreher wrote: I am looking for commands that show information about the user, that identify the user, ... # show processes running under a certain user ps -aux | grep USERNAME That should be ps aux above. The other way only works as long as you don't

Re: Fwd: Re: Airport Extreme Linux support [was: Apple iBook G4 GNU/Linux (Debian) compatibility?]

2004-02-22 Thread Le Sensei...
I had just thought about that yesterday too ! Having the airport extreme card used by macosx under mol and using the mol machine as a gateway could probably be done. One would probably have to code some bits to let macosx see the airport card through mol though, because for the moment, macosx

Build errors for 2.4.25-ben1

2004-02-22 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
Hi All gcc-2.95 is running here. For the running 2.4.24-ben1 I have, as it seems to me, successfully set CONFIG_NVRAM=y ls -l /dev/nvram crw-rw--1 root root 10, 144 Mar 14 2002 /dev/nvram Again, for 2.4.25-ben1, I set CONFIG_NVRAM=y But this is the error I get when trying to

Re: Build errors for 2.4.25-ben1

2004-02-22 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Sun, 2004-02-22 at 19:27, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: [ ... ] And here is who the whole build stops: ^^^ Typo: should say: how the whole build stops make[3]: Entering directory `/home/user/sources/2.4-benh-kernel/arch/ppc/boot/chrp' gcc -D__ASSEMBLY__

Re: Installing Debian using debian-sarge-netinst.iso (powerpc)

2004-02-22 Thread Brad Lathem
I kept getting the Apple_Bootstrap error when I was installing. It turned out that using a different version of the installation files fixed the problem. Of course, I was doing the installation without any physical media. I would like to have installed off of a CD-Rom, but couldn't get it to

Re: Installing Debian using debian-sarge-netinst.iso (powerpc)

2004-02-22 Thread Satadru Pramanik
hdiutil burn cdiimage.iso On Feb 22, 2004, at 2:05 PM, Brad Lathem wrote: I kept getting the Apple_Bootstrap error when I was installing. It turned out that using a different version of the installation files fixed the problem. Of course, I was doing the installation without any physical

Stopping X

2004-02-22 Thread Nicholas Williams
Hello, I have just installed Debian onto my powerbook, but I think I misconfigured X. When it starts up, there is nothing but jumbled graphics. I would like to boot without X so I can try and fix it, but I cant seem to do that. I tried ctl-option-delete and ctl-option-f1m but that just

Re: Stopping X

2004-02-22 Thread Lukas Th . Hey
Try to change to a virtual Console maybe? Ctl + Alt + F1 Which X-Manager do you use? (KDM, GDM, XDM, etc.) On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 14:25:43 -0500 Thus spake Nicholas Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, I have just installed Debian onto my powerbook, but I think I misconfigured X. When it

Sound missing

2004-02-22 Thread DarleCla2
I Can't haer nothing on my computer

Special keys stop working with kernel upgrade.

2004-02-22 Thread Juan Pablo Mendoza
Hi, I upgraded from 2.6.2-rc1-benh to 2.6.3-benh2 and my keys for controling lcd backlight, volume and cd eject stoped working. showkeys shows the same keycodes for all the keys as there where in 2.6.2-rc1 so i don't know what is wrong. I don't think pbbuttons isn't the problem since if i

2.6.3-benh1 does not boot

2004-02-22 Thread Simon Bergamin
Hi, the kernel 2.6.3-benh1 (Gentoo ebuild) hangs on my PB 12. It happens when mounting the proc filesystem, I don't get any errors, it just stops with the boot process. The same thing happened with 2.6.3_rc2-benh1 but 2.6.2 works perfectly. I am using the same configuration file (with make

Re: Build errors for 2.4.25-ben1

2004-02-22 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Sun, 2004-02-22 at 19:27, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: [ ... ] Sorry, forgot that: $ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 cpu : 7455, altivec supported clock : 867MHz revision: 3.2 (pvr 8001 0302) bogomips: 864.64 machine : PowerBook3,5 motherboard

Re: Sound missing

2004-02-22 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I Can't haer nothing on my computer Nor can I. http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling - -

[mflaig@uni.de: Re: Build errors for 2.4.25-ben1]

2004-02-22 Thread Michael Flaig
sorry, forgot cc to the list ... ---BeginMessage--- On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 10:14:04PM +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: On Sun, 2004-02-22 at 19:27, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: [ ... ] And just in case it helps: Here's one of my configs for 2.4.25-ben1 that didn't work for the compile:

Re: Installing Debian using debian-sarge-netinst.iso (powerpc)

2004-02-22 Thread Seb Tennant
I kept getting the Apple_Bootstrap error when I was installing. It turned out that using a different version of the installation files fixed the problem. I now think I know what I was doing wrong. Using Disk Utility to create the partitions for the Debian filesystem is a mistake. I haven't

Re: Special keys stop working with kernel upgrade.

2004-02-22 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 07:54, Juan Pablo Mendoza wrote: Hi, I upgraded from 2.6.2-rc1-benh to 2.6.3-benh2 and my keys for controling lcd backlight, volume and cd eject stoped working. showkeys shows the same keycodes for all the keys as there where in 2.6.2-rc1 so i don't know what is

Re: 2.6.3-benh1 does not boot

2004-02-22 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 07:53, Simon Bergamin wrote: Hi, the kernel 2.6.3-benh1 (Gentoo ebuild) hangs on my PB 12. It happens when mounting the proc filesystem, I don't get any errors, it just stops with the boot process. The same thing happened with 2.6.3_rc2-benh1 but 2.6.2 works perfectly.

Bluetooth + kernel 2.6.3-ben2 doesn't work

2004-02-22 Thread rusty
Hi folks, anybody has this config working well?, i'm triying to have an apple bluetooth mouse working on my debian. Anybody in the list could help me?,. Regards -- BOFH excuse #224: Jan 9 16:41:27 huber su: 'su root' succeeded for on /dev/pts/1

Re: Special keys stop working with kernel upgrade.

2004-02-22 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Juan Pablo Mendoza wrote: I upgraded from 2.6.2-rc1-benh to 2.6.3-benh2 and my keys for controling lcd backlight, volume and cd eject stoped working. I'm using the gnome multimedia keys daemon, and while the backlight controls are still working, the volume and eject

Re: Special keys stop working with kernel upgrade.

2004-02-22 Thread Juan Pablo Mendoza
On Sun, 2004-02-22 at 17:14, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: I upgraded from 2.6.2-rc1-benh to 2.6.3-benh2 and my keys for controling lcd backlight, volume and cd eject stoped working. Compare your .config's I had lost my old .config, but after a lot of kernel recompilations the problem

Airport on Powerbook(Al) 15 doesn't work

2004-02-22 Thread Henning Follmann
Hello, I tried to bring my airport on my powerbook up and it failed. This is an Albook 1.25 GHz When I try to bring it up with ifup eth1 I get this error message: sit0: unknown hardware address type 776 eth1: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device here my /etc/network/interfaces

Re: Airport on Powerbook(Al) 15 doesn't work

2004-02-22 Thread Henning Follmann
On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 09:17:24PM -0500, Henning Follmann wrote: Hello, I tried to bring my airport on my powerbook up and it failed. This is an Albook 1.25 GHz When I try to bring it up with ifup eth1 I get this error message: sit0: unknown hardware address type 776 eth1: ERROR while

Re: Airport on Powerbook(Al) 15 doesn't work

2004-02-22 Thread Brad Boyer
On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 09:17:24PM -0500, Henning Follmann wrote: I tried to bring my airport on my powerbook up and it failed. This is an Albook 1.25 GHz When I try to bring it up with ifup eth1 I get this error message: Airport Extreme is unsupported currently. This has been discussed

Macintosh 16 Color Display and XFree86 - problem

2004-02-22 Thread Christopher Gill
Greetings all. I'm trying to get XFree86 (4.1.0.1) to work with my Apple monitor, which is a Macintosh 16 Color Display. I just installed Debian 3.0 PPC on a PowerMac 7200/75 with the standard built-in video only, w/ 1MB of VRAM. It boots using quik. The monitor is a fixed-frequency (50 kHz

Re: 2.6.3-benh1 does not boot

2004-02-22 Thread David Stanaway
I am also having problems booting the new kernel. It complains about being unable to mount the root VFS hda11 or hda11 The kernel image is compiled with xfs support, and the root is xfs. From memory, this is the relevant stuff in my yaboot.conf partition=11 boot=/dev/hda9 root=/dev/hda12