It installs fine but networking does not work.
the Gmac card is recognized by the installer but in the network
control panel it is listed as disabled. When I click enable is
says it can't be found.
I tried adding a Linksys card I had lying around and it was
recognized by kudzu but does not show up in the network control
panel. Both of them are listed as being at eth0 in the hardware
browser.
Netstat lists the loopback address and nothing else. I think
that means that the IP stack is fine.
Because I have similar problems with two different cards I think
my drivers are OK.
What could be between the stack and the drivers.
I am thinking a config file.
This is one of the early blue and whites that won't do two
internal HDs on the default bus. It is completely stock except
the CD drive.
Maybe it needs a firmware update.
I am using DHCP but can switch to fixed IP's if needed.
YDL4.0.1 Blue&White G3 400 Mhz AGP Yosemite (I think)
On Mar 18, 2006, at 11:12 PM, Eric Dunbar wrote:
On 19/03/06, Eric Dunbar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 18/03/06, Brian Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Mar 18, 2006, at 6:03 PM, Andrew wrote:
On Sat, 2006-03-18 at 15:57 -0600, Brian Turner wrote:
On Mar 18, 2006, at 1:18 PM, Andrew wrote:
echo "alias eth0 gmac" >> /etc/modprobe.conf
This added the entry alias eth0 gmac to the bottom of the modprobe
file.
I did a more on the file and the entry was there twice.
rebooted and
still no network.
Hmm. Is it possible that the OP meant to write Bmac instead of
Gmac???!!!!
I noticed that I still had my old /etc/modprobe.conf~ file and this is
the file's contents:
alias snd-card-0 dmasound_pmac
alias eth0 bmac
install dmasound_pmac /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install dmasound_pmac &&
/usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
remove dmasound_pmac { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ;
}; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove dmasound_pmac
Note: you can simply edit this file with nano:
su
nano /etc/modprobe.conf
Eric
Success! it was supposed to be bmac instead of gmac
I did:
su
/sbin/modprobe bmac
I then went to the gnome and activated the interface. A reboot
probably would have worked too. I now can access web pages via IP
address.
I need to put in the DNS settings but I think I have seen that.
I think that the install routines put in the right driver but then
call it by the wrong name. locate gmac found nothing. This sounds
like a terrasoft problem. Out on the net both bmac and gmac were
sometimes referred to as being in this machine. It is possible that
apple switched that without any other change and that a later
blue&white would have a gmac. I think that Apple dosn't change the
name of products so that orders for discontinued products will
automatically get filled by their replacements. It sure gives us
techs fits.
I did try to do exactly this in the GUI in Gnome but it didn't work.
I don't think that the GUI is 100% functional.
Eric, Andrew, thanks a ton for your help.
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