sonnet L2/G3 in 6500 powermac

[David C. Hacker, DVM]

What kernel version are you  using?  It might be that the kernel wasn't 
compiled with support for G3 processors.

David C. Hacker, DVM
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On May 12, 2004, at 2:10 PM, Richard.Gill@math.uu.nl wrote:

> here is an update to my unanswered question of yesterday
> (has ANYONE out there succesfully run a sonnet L2/G3 500 MHz
> in a 6500/275 under YDL 3? [or something pretty close?]):
>
> I ResEdit'ed the Sonnet Processor Upgrade extension so that
> it became type "scri" instead of "INIT". It now loads before
> BootX. The result is (as I kindof expected) that linux booting
> now halts, BOTH when booting from the BootX extension, early,
> AND when booting from the BootX application, later. And in both
> cases it halts on the 22nd line of boot messages at "arch:  exit".
>
> I'm using the latest BootX, namely version 1.2.2.
>
> Still hoping for a good clue from someone out there...
>
> Yours
> Richard Gill
>
> PS. I had a lot of fun getting YDL 3 to run on this machine.
> All the usual troubles with monitor, network card and sound card.
> All essentially fixed now (I did not get the Apple Comm II network
> card to work satisfactorily under linux, despite a lot of kind help
> which involved patching a couple of different drivers: tulip and de4x5;
> but a cheapo RealTek PCI card from the PC store around the corner
> worked splendid out of the box. And works under OS 9 too).
> The 6500 is such a nice linux machine. It would be so good to
> have the G3 card in operation...
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