[gentoo-ppc-user] prism2 usb wireless, and install without cdrom

[lincr]

Hi folks,
I am new to Gentoo, and I am having a lot of trouble with Linux on PPC
in general.

What I am trying to accomplish is just get a normal desktop environment
going on my clamshell iBook, and get my DWL-122 Dlink usb dongle to
work.

Mandrake and Fedora PPC efforts are really unstable right now.  I have
installed both, and wrestled with too many problems, including so many
different snapshots available, apparently different builds from
different trees at different times.  I can't even put together an
install without great frustration... Debian is fine, but I am tired of
beating my head against the wall to get linux-wlan-ng going.  I know at
least one person has it working, but they are smarter than me. The
Yellowdog installer for v3 dies with a bug when it detects an HFS+
Extended partition, and v4 is only available for paying customers right
now.  I thought about trying to fix the installer, but why?  The fix is
already out there, just not for the public. OpenBSD and NetBSD do not
support this wireless device at this time.

I have given up a few times and just used OS X, but I am taking another
run at it.

SO, with that, my clamshell does not read CDRs.  I have an HFS partition
at /dev/hda2 that I put my kernel, ramdisk, yaboot, and yaboot.conf on,
and load yaboot in OpenFirmWare.  The install starts, but then cannot
use the loopback filesystem, because the installer is hardcoded to load
it from cd.

Is my only choice to set up netbooting on my ftp server, or can I do
this from OFW and a bootstrap partition?

Also does anyone have the DWL-122 or a USB prism2 dongle working under
Linux?

Thanks for any pointers,

Lincoln


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