Hi Everyone. I was recently given a dead Powerbook G3 Pizmo, all I got was the PB itself......
First hurdle was overcome by making a 24 volt power supply for it, which led me to some hours on the Apple technical boards and the purchase of a new PRAM battery. This got the book going and I was able to ascertain that it had 64meg of memory and had OS-9 installed. Hardware wise I�ve upgraded to 256meg of RAM and a USB wheel-mouse (I have an absolute loathing of touch-pad type interface). Software wise I didn�t understand OS-9 having had nothing to do with Apple equipment before and a quick search on the Internet resulted in me downloading YDL 3.01 and 4.0..... Hurrah! An OS I sort of understand (a little past �newbie� stage in Linux. Installed 4.0 and ran into trouble with sound and a few other things, not wanting to fight too many battles on too many fronts I reverted to 3.01 on the grounds (apparently justified if my experience is anything to go on) that it might not be the latest, but it would be stable. I�ve got Internet access via my home Lan, email works as does newsgroups, and I�ve even got my networked Lexmark and HP lasers printing from Open Office. With a bit of effort I have got sharing with my Win2K boxen working and downloaded/installed an updated Xmmms that doesn�t crash the way the �off the CD� version did. But, there are a couple of things that are evading me. I can seem to get any response from the PCMCIA port, I want to run a Orinoco radio card, I will eventually buy an Airport card, but they are absurdly priced in Australia, I can buy about 6 �standard� WiFi cards for what is being asked for 1 Airport, which is a bit stiff for 802.11b gear. Anyway, any clues on how to get the cardbus slot enabled will be gratefully received, I *think* I can manage to install drivers and set up configuration, I stymied at getting the machine to admit that the card is inserted at present. The second major bugbear I have is that I spend a lot of time listening to Radio National (http://www.abc.net.au/rn) and prefer the net version to live as FM reception is marginal where I live. The RN stream is a choice of either Windows Media format or Realplayer format. I kind of know that Windows Media isn�t *ever* going to work on any Linux machine, but I can find a PPC implementation of a Realplayer. Does such a thing exist and where do I get it? I�ll probably have more questions, but at the moment solutions to these two would lower the frustration levels somewhat _______________________________________________ yellowdog-newbie mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-newbie
