Hi Folks, Okay, I decided to reinstall 10.1 PPC via ftp, as the 1st iso image does not have everything on it that I want available at first boot. I installed the first time by changing the yaboot.conf file to load the kernel and ramdisk from an hfs partition on hda2, and then I installed the system from my local ftp server. I mounted the disk1 iso image as a loopback on the ftp server.
So now I am running a network install as before but using the mirrors already listed in the installer, rather than my local source. None of the mirrors have my 2.6 kernel modules! The module tarballs on the mirrors are all for the 2.4 kernels. ??? I browsed the ftp mirrors from another machine, and I can't find those 2.6 kernel modules. I could just get the other iso images and put them all on my local ftp server to install from there again, but then how do I know what repository I'm supposed to use for additional packages? Am I mistaken that 10.1 is a release, and there should be everything I need under a 10.1/ppc tree somewhere on one of the mirrors? Or is 10.1 ppc still a moving target? My disk1 iso that I downloaded isn't marked as devel or beta or anything. Have I grabbed a prerelease iso? I'm pretty happy with Mandrake ppc so far, I've used 586 in the past. X took some trickery, but I got the framebuffer to work. I apparently didn't have fbset from only disk1, so I couldn't tweak it. Also the bootloader install clobbered my OSX bootstrap ability, but the OSX installer fixed that. I don't care, I can run yaboot from OpenFirmWare easy enough. Thanks for any tips, Lincoln On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 17:39:12 +0100 "H.J.Bathoorn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 17 November 2004 15:19, Lincoln Rutledge wrote: > > HarM, > > > > That is a great tip! When I plug in the device under Mandrake, it > > loads the prism2 module, but yeah, iwconfig and ifconfig do nothing. > > Unfortunately neither apropos nor the iwconfig docs helped me. But > > I will investigate kismet! Maybe I won't have to compile anything! > > It seems like building kernels from source has gotten more > > complicated since about 1999, I don't have much luck any more... > > > > Lincoln > > I had a link up about a usb card (wl-012 card from sitecom) ....it's > at: http://people.zeelandnet.nl/triade/linux/wl-012.html ...it's a > text-copy of a page by a sitecom employee which has disapeared since a > while. > > That was using a 2.4 kernel (and a different device) but there should > be some usable stuff in there about configuring and stuff. Take a look > and see what you can use. > -- > Good luck, > HarM > >
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