[gentoo-ppc-user] problems with PowerBook G4

[gentoo-ppc-user] problems with PowerBook G4

[Nicholas S-A]

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hello,
I have installed Gentoo PPC (2005.1) on my 800 Mhz Titanium PowerBook 
G4 successfully (it boots). I have some problems, however, and I was 
wondering if anyone could help me. As it stands, I can not do the 
following which I would like:
1) I cannot configure ethernet (on eth0) or airport (on eth1, wifi1, 
and wlan1). after running "alias eth0=sungem" and "alias eth1=airport", 
"alias wifi1=airport", and "alias wlan1=airport", I still cannot 
connect using net.eth0 and net.eth1, etc, config and ifup eth0/ifup 
eth1. It says (I am booted into OSX now because I cannot get mail from 
Gentoo, so this might be a little off):
ifconfig: eth0: device not found
or something like that. The same goes for eth1. Is there a guide 
somewhere that I could read about configuring ethernet and airport 
under gentoo?
2) I have a problem with my kernel. When I try to boot off of a kernel 
that I complied myself, it always gives " returning 0x01400000 from 
prom_init" as an error in the Open Firmware white background, then NO 
MORE TEXT is outputted, and it freezes. Apparently, this error is 
common with powermac G5's (except with more text and a return to the OF 
prompt), but why my old powerbook has it I do not know. to compile the 
kernel, I ran
make clean dep modules modules_install vmlinux
dep was not needed. My system says making the vmlinux image worked 
fine. however, it does not boot, instead giving the above error. Any 
ideas on how I could get it to work?
3) I cannot mount hfs+ filesystems. When I run
mount /dev/hda13 /mnt/share
or
mount -t hfs /dev/hda13 /mnt/share
it complains that it does not know what hfs is. What are the steps for 
mounting an hfs+ partition under linux? or should I just switch to UFS?
4) This is a question about Mac-On-Linux. I was wondering how to 
install and run it. I have it installed, but when I run what it says to 
on the man pages, I get some errors about the display, and I think the 
OSX partition (I am really sorry I am so vague, but I forgot it since 
running MOL is not as high a priority right now as getting my linux 
system configured). It does the same thing when run in an xterm or 
Terminal Window (GNOME).
5) How do I configure multiple virtual command lines and switch between 
them? I had it working at one point, but it no longer functions. initrc 
says all the spawn extra terminal commands, but I cannot switch between 
displays using any key commands I know of.

I am pretty sure that most of these errors are due to not having a 
properly configured kernel, but there could be others as well.
thanks in advance for any help,
Nicholas

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hello,

I have installed Gentoo PPC (2005.1) on my 800 Mhz Titanium PowerBook
G4 successfully (it boots). I have some problems, however, and I was
wondering if anyone could help me. As it stands, I can not do the
following which I would like:

1) I cannot configure ethernet (on eth0) or airport (on eth1, wifi1,
and wlan1). after running "alias eth0=sungem" and "alias
eth1=airport", "alias wifi1=airport", and "alias wlan1=airport", I
still cannot connect using net.eth0 and net.eth1, etc, config and ifup
eth0/ifup eth1. It says (I am booted into OSX now because I cannot get
mail from Gentoo, so this might be a little off):

ifconfig: eth0: device not found

or something like that. The same goes for eth1. Is there a guide
somewhere that I could read about configuring ethernet and airport
under gentoo?

2) I have a problem with my kernel. When I try to boot off of a kernel
that I complied myself, it always gives "
returning<bold><fontfamily><param>Arial</param><x-tad-bigger> 0x01400000
from prom_init"</x-tad-bigger></fontfamily></bold> as an error in the
Open Firmware white background, then NO MORE TEXT is outputted, and it
freezes. Apparently, this error is common with powermac G5's (except
with more text and a return to the OF prompt), but why my old
powerbook has it I do not know. to compile the kernel, I ran

make clean dep modules modules_install vmlinux

dep was not needed. My system says making the vmlinux image worked
fine. however, it does not boot, instead giving the above error. Any
ideas on how I could get it to work?

3) I cannot mount hfs+ filesystems. When I run

mount /dev/hda13 /mnt/share

or

mount -t hfs /dev/hda13 /mnt/share

it complains that it does not know what hfs is. What are the steps for
mounting an hfs+ partition under linux? or should I just switch to UFS?

4) This is a question about Mac-On-Linux. I was wondering how to
install and run it. I have it installed, but when I run what it says
to on the man pages, I get some errors about the display, and I think
the OSX partition (I am really sorry I am so vague, but I forgot it
since running MOL is not as high a priority right now as getting my
linux system configured). It does the same thing when run in an xterm
or Terminal Window (GNOME).

5) How do I configure multiple virtual command lines and switch
between them? I had it working at one point, but it no longer
functions. initrc says all the spawn extra terminal commands, but I
cannot switch between displays using any key commands I know of.


I am pretty sure that most of these errors are due to not having a
properly configured kernel, but there could be others as well.

thanks in advance for any help,

Nicholas

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] problems with PowerBook G4

[Joseph Jezak]

Nicholas S-A wrote:
> hello,
> I have installed Gentoo PPC (2005.1) on my 800 Mhz Titanium PowerBook G4 
> successfully (it boots). I have some problems, however, and I was 
> wondering if anyone could help me. As it stands, I can not do the 
> following which I would like:
> 1) I cannot configure ethernet (on eth0) or airport (on eth1, wifi1, and 
> wlan1). after running "alias eth0=sungem" and "alias eth1=airport", 
> "alias wifi1=airport", and "alias wlan1=airport", I still cannot connect 
> using net.eth0 and net.eth1, etc, config and ifup eth0/ifup eth1. It 
> says (I am booted into OSX now because I cannot get mail from Gentoo, so 
> this might be a little off):
> ifconfig: eth0: device not found
> or something like that. The same goes for eth1. Is there a guide 
> somewhere that I could read about configuring ethernet and airport under 
> gentoo?

It sounds like you haven't included the modules for airport and your 
network card in your kernel.  Make sure that they are at least marked 
<M>, but I prefer to build them into my kernel (marked by <*>).

> 2) I have a problem with my kernel. When I try to boot off of a kernel 
> that I complied myself, it always gives " returning* 0x01400000 from 
> prom_init"* as an error in the Open Firmware white background, then NO 
> MORE TEXT is outputted, and it freezes. Apparently, this error is common 
> with powermac G5's (except with more text and a return to the OF 
> prompt), but why my old powerbook has it I do not know. to compile the 
> kernel, I ran
> make clean dep modules modules_install vmlinux
> dep was not needed. My system says making the vmlinux image worked fine. 
> however, it does not boot, instead giving the above error. Any ideas on 
> how I could get it to work?

You haven't compiled in a framebuffer device.  On that machine you need 
to have RadeonFB compiled into your kernel.

> 3) I cannot mount hfs+ filesystems. When I run
> mount /dev/hda13 /mnt/share
> or
> mount -t hfs /dev/hda13 /mnt/share
> it complains that it does not know what hfs is. What are the steps for 
> mounting an hfs+ partition under linux? or should I just switch to UFS?

You'll need to have support for HFS+ compiled into your kernel.  Make 
sure that it is compiled in.  For HFS+ filesystems, the type is hfsplus, 
not hfs.

> 4) This is a question about Mac-On-Linux. I was wondering how to install 
> and run it. I have it installed, but when I run what it says to on the 
> man pages, I get some errors about the display, and I think the OSX 
> partition (I am really sorry I am so vague, but I forgot it since 
> running MOL is not as high a priority right now as getting my linux 
> system configured). It does the same thing when run in an xterm or 
> Terminal Window (GNOME).

Yeah, I'll need some more information to help you with this.

> 5) How do I configure multiple virtual command lines and switch between 
> them? I had it working at one point, but it no longer functions. initrc 
> says all the spawn extra terminal commands, but I cannot switch between 
> displays using any key commands I know of.

It should be working, as you said initrc is spawning the terminals.  On 
my powerbook, I press Alt + F# to switch the terminals, but if you're 
not running pbbuttonsd, you'll need to press fn + Alt + F#.

Good luck!
-Joe
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Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] problems with PowerBook G4

[Nicholas S-A]

Thank you so much! That worked to get over the prom_init. 
unfortunately, I still cannot boot. It gets a kernel panic wand 
outputs:
VFS: unable to open root "/dev/hda11" or unknown-block(0,0)
add root= with correct root device to boot line
kernel panic - cannot open root filesystem
reboot in 180 seconds...
I used "/dev/hda9" (my boot partition), "/dev/ram0", "hd:11", etc in 
various combinations as kernel options for root= and real_root=	. with 
root=/dev/ram0 and real_root=/dev/hda11, it said unknown-block(1,0) 
instead. Is there an easy fix for this? should I be using OF or Linux 
HD naming? any other ideas?
thank you so much again,
Nick
On Sep 20, 2005, at 9:40 PM, Joseph Jezak wrote:

> Nicholas S-A wrote:
>> hello,
>> I have installed Gentoo PPC (2005.1) on my 800 Mhz Titanium PowerBook 
>> G4 successfully (it boots). I have some problems, however, and I was 
>> wondering if anyone could help me. As it stands, I can not do the 
>> following which I would like:

>> 2) I have a problem with my kernel. When I try to boot off of a 
>> kernel that I complied myself, it always gives " returning* 
>> 0x01400000 from prom_init"* as an error in the Open Firmware white 
>> background, then NO MORE TEXT is outputted, and it freezes. 
>> Apparently, this error is common with powermac G5's (except with more 
>> text and a return to the OF prompt), but why my old powerbook has it 
>> I do not know. to compile the kernel, I ran
>> make clean dep modules modules_install vmlinux
>> dep was not needed. My system says making the vmlinux image worked 
>> fine. however, it does not boot, instead giving the above error. Any 
>> ideas on how I could get it to work?
>
> You haven't compiled in a framebuffer device.  On that machine you 
> need to have RadeonFB compiled into your kernel.

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Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] problems with PowerBook G4

[Joseph Jezak]

Nicholas S-A wrote:
> Thank you so much! That worked to get over the prom_init. unfortunately, 
> I still cannot boot. It gets a kernel panic wand outputs:
> VFS: unable to open root "/dev/hda11" or unknown-block(0,0)
> add root= with correct root device to boot line
> kernel panic - cannot open root filesystem
> reboot in 180 seconds...

Sounds like you didn't include one or all of the following:
IDE/ATA Disk support
IDE/ATA Driver
Mac Partition Support

Make sure those are in your kernel and try again.

-Joe
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Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] problems with PowerBook G4

[Nicholas S-A]

Thank you so much. I now works great! I have a few problems (GNOME is 
failing, PCMCIA does not support CompactFlash memory because memory_cs 
does not exist) that are not a very big deal. However, my ethernet does 
not work, which means I cannot update my system and I have to reboot 
into OSX before I can email. eth0 autostarts, but eth1 does not (I just 
start it up). they both run, reporting activity. I can ping my router 
successfully. However, when I try
ping www.google.com
it says
connect: network error (or something like that)
It is not a problem with my internet connection because that works fine 
for OSX and other computers. Any ideas?
thanks so much
nick
On Sep 21, 2005, at 12:06 AM, Joseph Jezak wrote:

> Nicholas S-A wrote:
>> Thank you so much! That worked to get over the prom_init. 
>> unfortunately, I still cannot boot. It gets a kernel panic wand 
>> outputs:
>> VFS: unable to open root "/dev/hda11" or unknown-block(0,0)
>> add root= with correct root device to boot line
>> kernel panic - cannot open root filesystem
>> reboot in 180 seconds...
>
> Sounds like you didn't include one or all of the following:
> IDE/ATA Disk support
> IDE/ATA Driver
> Mac Partition Support
>
> Make sure those are in your kernel and try again.
>
> -Joe
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>

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Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] problems with PowerBook G4

[Nicholas S-A]

The output is actually this error from 'man connect':
[ENETUNREACH]      The network isn't reachable from this host.
I don't understand what the problem is, because my airport is connected 
to the internet and selected as the router (in linux), so it should  
automatically route everything to where it should go, right?
nick
On Sep 21, 2005, at 7:10 PM, Nicholas S-A wrote:

> Thank you so much. I now works great! I have a few problems (GNOME is 
> failing, PCMCIA does not support CompactFlash memory because memory_cs 
> does not exist) that are not a very big deal. However, my ethernet 
> does not work, which means I cannot update my system and I have to 
> reboot into OSX before I can email. eth0 autostarts, but eth1 does not 
> (I just start it up). they both run, reporting activity. I can ping my 
> router successfully. However, when I try
> ping www.google.com
> it says
> connect: network error (or something like that)
> It is not a problem with my internet connection because that works 
> fine for OSX and other computers. Any ideas?
> thanks so much
> nick
> On Sep 21, 2005, at 12:06 AM, Joseph Jezak wrote:
>
>> Nicholas S-A wrote:
>>> Thank you so much! That worked to get over the prom_init. 
>>> unfortunately, I still cannot boot. It gets a kernel panic wand 
>>> outputs:
>>> VFS: unable to open root "/dev/hda11" or unknown-block(0,0)
>>> add root= with correct root device to boot line
>>> kernel panic - cannot open root filesystem
>>> reboot in 180 seconds...
>>
>> Sounds like you didn't include one or all of the following:
>> IDE/ATA Disk support
>> IDE/ATA Driver
>> Mac Partition Support
>>
>> Make sure those are in your kernel and try again.
>>
>> -Joe
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>>
>
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Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] problems with PowerBook G4

[Matti Bickel]

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Nicholas S-A <nova@macintoshclub.com> wrote:
> The output is actually this error from 'man connect':
> [ENETUNREACH]      The network isn't reachable from this host.

Since you can reach your router: have you checked *which* interface
reaches the router?
What's the output of route -n?

Sorry, just a wild guess.
Matti
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Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] problems with PowerBook G4

[Nicholas S-A]

Yes, it turns out that is the problem! The router somehow got 
misconfigured as 0.0.0.0 instead of 10.0.1.1.
here is ifconfig:
bond0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:00:00:00:00:00
           BROADCAST MASTER MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
           RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
           TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
           RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

dummy0    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 86:DB:59:06:1D:3C
           BROADCAST NOARP  MTU:1500  Metric:1
           RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
           TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
           RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:03:93:80:24:F2
           inet addr:10.0.1.200  Bcast:10.255.255.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
           RX packets:17 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
           TX packets:16 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
           RX bytes:1374 (1.3 Kb)  TX bytes:1174 (1.1 Kb)
           Interrupt:41 Base address:0x7400

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:30:65:16:B7:DD
           inet addr:10.0.1.12  Bcast:10.255.255.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
           RX packets:22 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
           TX packets:20 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
           RX bytes:1910 (1.8 Kb)  TX bytes:3002 (2.9 Kb)
           Interrupt:57

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
           inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
           UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
           RX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
           TX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
           RX bytes:280 (280.0 b)  TX bytes:280 (280.0 b)

and route -n:
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags   MSS Window  
irtt Iface
10.0.1.0        *               255.255.255.0   U         0 0          
0 eth0
10.0.1.0        *               255.255.255.0   U         0 0          
0 eth1
loopback        localhost       255.0.0.0       UG        0 0          
0 lo

Is the right command to use 10.0.1.1 as a router (for both eth1 and 
eth0) 'route add default gw 10.0.1.1'? Or is it something else? That is 
what I got from manning route, but I don't what to mess anything up by 
having conflicting IP addresses.
thanks
nick
On Sep 22, 2005, at 4:29 AM, Matti Bickel wrote:

> Nicholas S-A <nova@macintoshclub.com> wrote:
>> The output is actually this error from 'man connect':
>> [ENETUNREACH]      The network isn't reachable from this host.
>
> Since you can reach your router: have you checked *which* interface
> reaches the router?
> What's the output of route -n?
>
> Sorry, just a wild guess.
> Matti
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Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] problems with PowerBook G4

[Matti Bickel]

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Nicholas S-A <nova@macintoshclub.com> wrote:
> Yes, it turns out that is the problem! The router somehow got misconfigured as 0.0.0.0 instead of 10.0.1.1.
> here is ifconfig:
[config eth0,eth1,lo,bond0,dummy0]

They seem to be ok.

> and route -n:
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags   MSS Window  irtt Iface
> 10.0.1.0        *               255.255.255.0   U         0 0          0 eth0
> 10.0.1.0        *               255.255.255.0   U         0 0          0 eth1
> loopback        localhost       255.0.0.0       UG        0 0          0 lo

This is not ok. But you mention correctly that you have to do:
route add default gw 10.0.1.1

Not sure if you have to
route add default gw 10.0.1.1 dev eth0
route add default gw 10.0.1.1 dev eth1
though.

Matti
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[gentoo-ppc-user] Problem with powerbook G4 solved

[nova]

> route add default gw 10.0.1.1 dev eth0
it works! I am cueently emailing from links -g over airport!
Thank you everyone so much for your support. Gentoo is so much nicer than
every other desktop Linux for 2 reasons (maybe more): 1) emerge, and 2)
great mailing lists :-)
I am currently downloading KDE to enjoy graphical support, because GNOME
was failing horribly. Until then, I guess some xterms, a xcalc, xconsole,
and links -g will have to do...
thanks
nick



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Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Problem with powerbook G4 solved

[nova]

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>> route add default gw 10.0.1.1 dev eth0
> it works! I am cueently emailing from links -g over airport!
> Thank you everyone so much for your support. Gentoo is so much nicer
> than every other desktop Linux for 2 reasons (maybe more): 1) emerge,
> and 2) great mailing lists :-)
> I am currently downloading KDE to enjoy graphical support, because GNOME
> was failing horribly. Until then, I guess some xterms, a xcalc,
> xconsole, and links -g will have to do...
> thanks
> nick
>
>
>
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OK, I installed KDE because GNOME failed, and I can get it to amke it all
the way to booting up, but there is an error with DCOP and it does not
finish booting. Hald never starts because of the same error with dcop.
here are some files with the errors: X also complains about not having a
radeon module, so I recompiled the kernel with radeon as a module with no
luck. I also have a problem in that I cannot connect to the internet over
Airport with my Ethernet eth0 modules loaded. This is ok as I just wrote a
couple simple scripts that configure airport or ethnet connection, but it
would be nice to have both on at the same time. Any ideas?
thanks
nick


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 ^[[32;01m*^[[0m Starting D-BUS system messagebus ...
^[[A^[[153G  ^[[34;01m[ ^[[31;01m!!^[[34;01m ]^[[0m
 ^[[31;01m*^[[0m ERROR:  Problem starting needed services.
 ^[[31;01m*^[[0m         "hald" was not started.
Failed to start message bus: Failed to create socket '/var/lib/dbus/system_bus_socket/': Address family not supported by protocol

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_X11TransSocketOpenCOTSClient: Unable to open socket for local
_X11TransOpen: transport open failed for local/localhost:0
X Window System Version 6.8.2
Release Date: 9 February 2005
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.8.2
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.12-gentoo-r6-ppc32 ppc [ELF]
Current Operating System: Linux localhost 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 #10 Sun Sep 04:58:22 EST 2005 ppc
Build Date: 26 August 2005
FATAL: Module radeon not found.
[drm] failed to load kernel module 'radeon'
(EE) RADEON(0): [dri] 
(EE) RADEON(0): [dri] DRIScreenInit failed. Disabling DRI.
...
kdeinit: Aborting. socket() failed: : Address family not supported by protocol
Warning: socket() failed: : Address family not supported by protocol
Could not register with DCOPServer. Aborting.
ERROR: Couldn't attach to DCOP server! 
startkde: Shutting down...
Warning: socket() failed: : Address family not supported by protocol
Error: Can't contact kdeinit! 
/usr/kde/3.4/bin/startkde: line 281: artshell: command not found
startkde: Running shutdown scripts...
startkde: Done.

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] problems with PowerBook G4

[Draeven]

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It sounds like to me that you don't have the proper filesystem drivers
built into your kernel.

What filesystem for linux are you using?  It needs to be built as <*>,
not <M>.

You should be using Linux naming for your hardrive in your yaboot.conf.

Please post the output from "mac-fdisk -l /dev/hda" (minus the quotes
please).

Also post your /etc/yaboot.conf so we can see if that is setup
correctly.

Regards,
Draeven

On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 22:43 -0400, Nicholas S-A wrote:

> Thank you so much! That worked to get over the prom_init. 
> unfortunately, I still cannot boot. It gets a kernel panic wand 
> outputs:
> VFS: unable to open root "/dev/hda11" or unknown-block(0,0)
> add root= with correct root device to boot line
> kernel panic - cannot open root filesystem
> reboot in 180 seconds...
> I used "/dev/hda9" (my boot partition), "/dev/ram0", "hd:11", etc in 
> various combinations as kernel options for root= and real_root=	. with 
> root=/dev/ram0 and real_root=/dev/hda11, it said unknown-block(1,0) 
> instead. Is there an easy fix for this? should I be using OF or Linux 
> HD naming? any other ideas?
> thank you so much again,
> Nick
> On Sep 20, 2005, at 9:40 PM, Joseph Jezak wrote:
> 
> > Nicholas S-A wrote:
> >> hello,
> >> I have installed Gentoo PPC (2005.1) on my 800 Mhz Titanium PowerBook 
> >> G4 successfully (it boots). I have some problems, however, and I was 
> >> wondering if anyone could help me. As it stands, I can not do the 
> >> following which I would like:
> 
> >> 2) I have a problem with my kernel. When I try to boot off of a 
> >> kernel that I complied myself, it always gives " returning* 
> >> 0x01400000 from prom_init"* as an error in the Open Firmware white 
> >> background, then NO MORE TEXT is outputted, and it freezes. 
> >> Apparently, this error is common with powermac G5's (except with more 
> >> text and a return to the OF prompt), but why my old powerbook has it 
> >> I do not know. to compile the kernel, I ran
> >> make clean dep modules modules_install vmlinux
> >> dep was not needed. My system says making the vmlinux image worked 
> >> fine. however, it does not boot, instead giving the above error. Any 
> >> ideas on how I could get it to work?
> >
> > You haven't compiled in a framebuffer device.  On that machine you 
> > need to have RadeonFB compiled into your kernel.
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Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] problems with PowerBook G4

[Colin]

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On Sep 20, 2005, at 8:40 PM, Nicholas S-A wrote:
> 1) I cannot configure ethernet (on eth0) or airport (on eth1,  
> wifi1, and wlan1). after running "alias eth0=sungem" and "alias  
> eth1=airport", "alias wifi1=airport", and "alias wlan1=airport", I  
> still cannot connect using net.eth0 and net.eth1, etc, config and  
> ifup eth0/ifup eth1. It says (I am booted into OSX now because I  
> cannot get mail from Gentoo, so this might be a little off):
> ifconfig: eth0: device not found
> or something like that. The same goes for eth1. Is there a guide  
> somewhere that I could read about configuring ethernet and airport  
> under gentoo?

Mac OS X isn't Linux, it's BSD.  Thus, there are a few changes as far  
as networking is concerned.  eth* becomes en* and sit* becomes stf*  
(IPv6-over-IPv4);  those are the only ones I can come up with off the  
top of my head.  So under OS X, you'll need to use "ifconfig en0" to  
view your first network device.  Or just use "ifconfig -a" to view  
all of your interfaces.
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[gentoo-ppc-user] Nice things with the touchpad

[JOAN MASSICH VALL]

Hello all

Today I discover the package x11-misc/synaptics, this package it's ~ppc
and you can make things like different button evens or scrolling (maybe
something like mac OS X with two fingers).

I would ask you if any of you have tried it before

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Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] problems with PowerBook G4

[JOAN MASSICH VALL]

Hello, I'm Sik and I want to ask you some questions:

I have a PbG4 867MHz 12" (with a nvidia) and I can't have running the
airport and MOL.
Your TI-Book have a radeon or a nvidia? Because I only can take 8bits of
color with MOL and I can see any thing.

The second one is about the airport, it's the old one 11Mbps?

> hello,
> I have installed Gentoo PPC (2005.1) on my 800 Mhz Titanium PowerBook
> G4 successfully (it boots). I have some problems, however, and I was
> wondering if anyone could help me. As it stands, I can not do the
> following which I would like:
> 1) I cannot configure ethernet (on eth0) or airport (on eth1, wifi1,
> and wlan1). after running "alias eth0=sungem" and "alias eth1=airport",
> "alias wifi1=airport", and "alias wlan1=airport", I still cannot
> connect using net.eth0 and net.eth1, etc, config and ifup eth0/ifup
> eth1. It says (I am booted into OSX now because I cannot get mail from
> Gentoo, so this might be a little off):
> ifconfig: eth0: device not found
> or something like that. The same goes for eth1. Is there a guide
> somewhere that I could read about configuring ethernet and airport
> under gentoo?

> 4) This is a question about Mac-On-Linux. I was wondering how to
> install and run it. I have it installed, but when I run what it says to
> on the man pages, I get some errors about the display, and I think the
> OSX partition (I am really sorry I am so vague, but I forgot it since
> running MOL is not as high a priority right now as getting my linux
> system configured). It does the same thing when run in an xterm or
> Terminal Window (GNOME).

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Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] problems with PowerBook G4

[nova]

> Hello, I'm Sik and I want to ask you some questions:
>
> I have a PbG4 867MHz 12" (with a nvidia) and I can't have running the
> airport and MOL.
> Your TI-Book have a radeon or a nvidia? Because I only can take 8bits of
> color with MOL and I can see any thing.
>
> The second one is about the airport, it's the old one 11Mbps?
1) it is a radeon (mobility?) either 7000 or 9200 (I forget) with 32 MB of
VRAM. I got mol to work by reemerging it with the correct USE-flags set,
then running molvconfig. MOL works at either 256(8bit) or thousands(16bit)
of colors, but not millions.
2)Yes, it is the original airport, not extreme. There is a complicated
precedure involving MOL that lets you use an extreme under linux that is
detailed on the gentoo forums.
nick


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