Re: Yaboot Man pages on Internet?

2006-01-27 Thread Brian Durant
On 27. jan 2006, at 1.38, Charles Plessy wrote: On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 03:40:02PM +0100, Brian Durant wrote : Here is what my yaboot conf file looks like: ## For a dual-boot menu, add one or more of: ## bsd=/dev/hdaX, macos=/dev/hdaY, macosx=/dev/hdaZ Maybe you could look for a way to have

Having left option key as AltGr

2006-01-27 Thread Ismael Valladolid Torres
Using a B&W G3 with a spanish keyboard running Sarge. Which way to do it running X? Will it work the same if using Gnome? Cordially, Ismael -- Tout fourmille de commentaries, d'auteurs il en est grande chert? http://lamediahostia.blogspot.com/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/ivalladt/ p

Re: Newbie planning vanilla Debian 31r1a-powerpc net install.

2006-01-27 Thread Brian Durant
On 27. jan 2006, at 8.59, Christian Walther wrote: If you have specific questions after reading the manual, just ask them. It'll be easier for all of us to give you an answer when we know what you're dealing with. :-) Hi, Well here is the first batch, all pertaining to the Debian Sarge PPC

Re: Newbie planning vanilla Debian 31r1a-powerpc net install.

2006-01-27 Thread Charles Plessy
On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 11:44:04AM +0100, Brian Durant wrote : > > 1) Which option "install-*" do I use to start an install for the > following: Hi, What options can you chose ? any finishing by 4 or 64 should be fine. > You shouldn't have to be a guru to get a plain vanilla Debian > syste

Re: Help BCM430x

2006-01-27 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 01:23 -0300, Marcos Medeiros wrote: > cold:~# iwconfig eth2 essid any > Error for wireless request "Set ESSID" (8B1A) : > SET failed on device eth2 ; Operation not supported. > cold:~# When you modprobe the module, the radio is turned off by default. To turn it on, use i

Re: Newbie planning vanilla Debian 31r1a-powerpc net install.

2006-01-27 Thread Brian Durant
On 27. jan 2006, at 12.15, Charles Plessy wrote: On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 11:44:04AM +0100, Brian Durant wrote : 1) Which option "install-*" do I use to start an install for the following: Hi, What options can you chose ? any finishing by 4 or 64 should be fine. Noted. You shouldn't have

Re: How do I hotswap media bay devices?

2006-01-27 Thread Michael Schmitz
> You are right that the CDROM seems to be recognized by the kernel > according to the logs, but I can't mount any CDs because there doesn't > seem to be a /dev/hdc. > > How do I get one of those without rebooting? That depends - with neither udev nor devfsd running, mknod /dev/hdc b 22 0 would be

Re: Sudden Power Loss (Resolution?)

2006-01-27 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 16:44 +0100, Rainer Gutkas wrote: > Have you checked the date settings recently? So I had this problem once > on my G3 Powerbook Pismo under Ubuntu-Hoary. After this sudden > power-lost everything seemed scrambled, which made no sense to me, > because I'm using ext3 and che

Re: Sudden Power Loss (Resolution?)

2006-01-27 Thread Ian Ruffell
On Friday 27 January 2006 18:01, Michel Dänzer wrote: > About a week ago, I switched from pmud to pbbuttonsd, and today I had a > sudden shutdown again, on AC and with mostly full battery. Note that I > don't mean to blame pbbuttonsd, I'm pleasantly surprised by how it's > come along since the last

Re: Sudden Power Loss (Resolution?)

2006-01-27 Thread Michael Schmitz
> If I'm on battery I've ended up stopping pbbuttonsd if I'm doing something > critical - not had a shutdown if I have not had pbbuttonsd running... Maybe I > should go pmud instead then... Hmm. You can compile pbbuttonsd to run in cooperatve mode with pmud (a configure option). Maybe this can hel

Re: Sudden Power Loss (Resolution?)

2006-01-27 Thread Tommy Trussell
On 1/27/06, Ian Ruffell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 27 January 2006 18:01, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > About a week ago, I switched from pmud to pbbuttonsd, and today I had a > > sudden shutdown again, on AC and with mostly full battery. Note that I > > don't mean to blame pbbuttonsd, ... >

Re: Sudden Power Loss (Resolution?)

2006-01-27 Thread Julien BLACHE
Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, > FWIW, I used to have regular sudden shutdowns a couple of months ago. As a data point, I'm seeing that too on a rev1 Ti (G4 500), but it might be a slightly different issue. It happened today for the second time in a couple of months, the machine j

Re: Sudden Power Loss (Resolution?)

2006-01-27 Thread Percy Zahl
I also see this on my old TiBook G4/400. There is one bad thing I do have to avoid: if I forget to unplug a PCMCIA-CF card adapter with a CF card, and close the lid for sleeping it will immediately be "dead", i.e. like forced power off. On restart I get a nice date of Jan 1st 1900 :-) it forc

Re: DVD-Writer

2006-01-27 Thread Yuki Cuss
Rainer Gutkas wrote: Hello all! I'm thinking of tuning my Powerbook G3 Pismo a bit and thought to by myself a DVD-writer to replace the original DVD-ROM. Theres plenty of them on ebay As I can order this only from overseas (US) and thats quite expensive, and I don't think I can return them,

Build the bcm43xx with own kernel

2006-01-27 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hi, I tried to build the bcm43xx driver from the debian package with a self-made kernel, but I failed. Firstly I needed the header files for ieee80211softmac. After building and installing the package I found the include files in /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.15.1. The bcm43xx make file searches for