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, and yaboot

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 wireless options

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:

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

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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.net/

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 installation

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 fine

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

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 a

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

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 collisions.

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: [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. I use

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

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. So I