Re: PC hardware on PPC

2000-12-19 Thread Adrian Cox
Kevin van Haaren wrote: What about wake on lan features? does that require bios/open firmware integration (and does it even work under Mac OS?). I've not had a PPC machine with a wake on lan connector, and I'm not sure which of them do. - Adrian

Re: PC hardware on PPC

2000-12-16 Thread Andreas Tobler
Mike Fedyk wrote: I have several cards that I would like to use on my 7300 Pmac. Does anyone know if any will work on this arch with Linux? Ethernet: RealTek 8139 AMD PCnet 3com 95x 3Com 590 / 905 ? yes are working, and a look here shows you some more cards:

Re: PC hardware on PPC

2000-12-16 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Sorry meaning it won't work? I've had good reports about eepro's working under linux/ppc. Some of those reports from Donald Becker. Same goes for the 3com 59x (never heard of a 95x). Yup. I have a 8500 that have been running with an EEPro for monthes (it's still running 2.2.12 or something

Re: PC hardware on PPC

2000-12-16 Thread Kevin van Haaren
At 17:34 + 12/15/2000, Adrian Cox wrote: That's the only real difference. This is important for video cards, which need to run a BIOS, but shouldn't make any difference for ethernet cards. - Adrian Cox, AG Electronics What about wake on lan features? does that require bios/open firmware

Re: PC hardware on PPC

2000-12-16 Thread Matt Porter
On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 04:39:21PM +0100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: Sorry meaning it won't work? I've had good reports about eepro's working under linux/ppc. Some of those reports from Donald Becker. Same goes for the 3com 59x (never heard of a 95x). Yup. I have a 8500 that have been

Re: PC hardware on PPC

2000-12-15 Thread Mike Fedyk
Adrian Cox wrote: Mike Fedyk wrote: I have several cards that I would like to use on my 7300 Pmac. Does anyone know if any will work on this arch with Linux? Ethernet: AMD PCnet These work just fine on other PowerPC machines under Linux. - Adrian Cox, AG Electronics Great,

Re: PC hardware on PPC

2000-12-15 Thread Adrian Cox
Mike Fedyk wrote: [...] Do you know if there are any hardware differences between PCI on x86 and PPC? As far as I can tell, Mac Certified only means that it interacts with Open Firmware. That's the only real difference. This is important for video cards, which need to run a BIOS, but

Re[2]: PC hardware on PPC

2000-12-15 Thread Kaz Aoshima
Hi, Some PCI cards for PC machines works well on PPCLinux. If the drivers for some devices is endian-free drivers, the devices have some ability to work on PowerPC machines. Return for : From: Paul Talacko [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Re: PC hardware on PPC date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 17:59:33 +

Re[2]: PC hardware on PPC

2000-12-15 Thread Kaz Aoshima
Hi, Return for : From: Cort Dougan [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Re: PC hardware on PPC date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 19:24:51 -0700 } 3com 95x } Intel EE Pro } Sorry. Sorry meaning it won't work? I lacked I don't know that works or not of these hardwares. Best regards. -- Kaz

PC hardware on PPC

2000-12-14 Thread Mike Fedyk
I have several cards that I would like to use on my 7300 Pmac. Does anyone know if any will work on this arch with Linux? Ethernet: RealTek 8139 AMD PCnet 3com 95x Intel EE Pro SCSI: Symbios chip Thanks Mike

Re: PC hardware on PPC

2000-12-14 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 08:30:57AM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: I have several cards that I would like to use on my 7300 Pmac. Does anyone know if any will work on this arch with Linux? Ethernet: RealTek 8139 AMD PCnet Not sure about these. 3com 95x Intel EE Pro Sure ought to. The

Re: PC hardware on PPC

2000-12-14 Thread Adrian Cox
Mike Fedyk wrote: I have several cards that I would like to use on my 7300 Pmac. Does anyone know if any will work on this arch with Linux? Ethernet: AMD PCnet These work just fine on other PowerPC machines under Linux. - Adrian Cox, AG Electronics

Re: PC hardware on PPC

2000-12-14 Thread Paul Talacko
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 08:30:57AM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: I have several cards that I would like to use on my 7300 Pmac. Does anyone know if any will work on this arch with Linux? Ethernet: RealTek 8139 I couldn't get this working at all. It needs someone to hack the driver as far as