Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] How about the PowerBook 500 PPC

2006-04-03 Thread Carlos Castro
I tried the "sonic" kernel and it panics right after sonic loads Will be waiting for a new version. Carlos On 2006/04/03, at 22:32, Tobias Netzel wrote: The Sonic driver will not work. It does only support 32 bit cards and the onboard one in the PB500 is only 16 bit. The support for the 16

Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] How about the PowerBook 500 PPC

2006-04-03 Thread Tobias Netzel
The Sonic driver will not work. It does only support 32 bit cards and the onboard one in the PB500 is only 16 bit. The support for the 16 bit cards has to be reimplemented - it got lost in the kernel repositories somehow. I'll give it a try. Tobias Am 03.04.2006 um 23:11 schrieb Carlos Cas

Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] How about the PowerBook 500 PPC

2006-04-03 Thread Carlos Castro
That is a good idea. I will try the new kernel and report asap. Carlos On 2006/04/03, at 20:29, Tobias Netzel wrote: Sounds really good! I think I will simply replace "1400/2300/5300" by "NuBus". Perhaps I will add the exact model to the procfs entries. I just finished porting the Sonic driv

Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] How about the PowerBook 500 PPC

2006-04-03 Thread Tobias Netzel
Sounds really good! I think I will simply replace "1400/2300/5300" by "NuBus". Perhaps I will add the exact model to the procfs entries. I just finished porting the Sonic driver! The sources make the impression that the PB5x0 is supported. You can find the "Mach Kernel" in the same place as the la

Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] How about the PowerBook 500 PPC

2006-04-03 Thread Carlos Castro
The keyboard trick works. Hard disk is detected properly One little stupid thing when pmu loads it prints: PMU driver 2 initialized for PowerBook 1400/2300/5300, firmware: 05 Is it time to include the 500PPC also? Still trying to download debian, will report when I have more info Thanks Carlos

Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] How about the PowerBook 500 PPC

2006-04-03 Thread Tobias Netzel
Hi Carlos, good to hear! In order to be able to configure the keyboard you have to do the keyboard detection three or maybe more times. You will then be prompted to choose the keyboard type; select USB keyboard. Never choose mac keyboard! Is the hard disk detected properly? (If you don't know; t

Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: 2.6 kernel

2006-04-03 Thread Vito
Has there been any progress toward a 2.6 kernel that can be booted by Cd as the ones we are now using? Vito --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media.

Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Re: Palm Pilot

2006-04-03 Thread Vito
To Daniel and to all who read this, shortly after reading Tobias and Daniel's earlier emails, I gave up , gave in, and searched on ebay to find a serial cable and an adapter for the pb1400 serial port to work with my Tungsten C. I found both with shipping included for arround $15.00 US dollars

Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] How about the PowerBook 500 PPC

2006-04-03 Thread Carlos Castro
Hi Tobias, Success!!! It boots and gets to the installer. Aparently no problems. Except the debian intaller can detect the keyboard (the keyboard works bvut the installer says that it can't detect it) and I used the arguments you sent me Good work. I think you can add a machine to the suppo

Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Re: Palm Pilot

2006-04-03 Thread Vito
Daniel: You must be correct with Tobias, but I never conceed this point, as I have decided to go to my death daring to dream the impossible dream, and also never to use spell-check in any of my emails! Regards, Vito - Original Message From: Daniel Gimpelevich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: