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