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hello, |
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I have installed Gentoo PPC (2005.1) on my 800 Mhz Titanium PowerBook |
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G4 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, |
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and wlan1). after running "alias eth0=sungem" and "alias eth1=airport", |
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"alias wifi1=airport", and "alias wlan1=airport", I still cannot |
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connect using net.eth0 and net.eth1, etc, config and ifup eth0/ifup |
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eth1. It says (I am booted into OSX now because I cannot get mail from |
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Gentoo, so 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 |
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under gentoo? |
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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 |
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common 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 |
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fine. however, it does not boot, instead giving the above error. Any |
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ideas on how I could get it to work? |
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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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4) This is a question about Mac-On-Linux. I was wondering how to |
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install and run it. I have it installed, but when I run what it says to |
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on the man pages, I get some errors about the display, and I think the |
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OSX 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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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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I am pretty sure that most of these errors are due to not having a |
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properly configured kernel, but there could be others as well. |
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thanks in advance for any help, |
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Nicholas |
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