Performa 6400 question

[Daniel Gimpelevich]

Cian was not talking about video cards or NICs, just bootable cards such
as SCSI or ATA or FireWire. Macs ignore card BIOSes and just look for
F-Code. Without F-Code, as in the case of all the PC NICs YDL users use,
it's up to the OS (Linux) to supply a driver, which is not a problem.
Installing 4.0 isn't much harder than installing 3.0, the only real
problem being that the installer will choke on installing the bootloader
and won't create a non-root user, nor auto-enable graphical login. Both of
those things can be done easily after the installer chokes. As for NICs,
TerraSoft only enables drivers for a couple of chipsets in their kernels.
You can take a look at which ones after installing, but you can't go wrong
with Tulip-based cards. IIRC, the other enabled drivers are 8139too,
ne2k_pci, and something from DEC.

On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 07:37:45 -0600, Nathan Moore wrote:

> thanks.  Do network cards have similar mac-pc bias or will any old PCI 
> card do?
> 
> Nathan
> 
> On Jan 3, 2005, at 11:53 PM, Cian Duffy wrote:
> 
>>> If I can, would Linux be able to use something as big as a modern ATI
>>> rage128 32mb PCI video card?  I understand system bus is only 40mhz,
>>> but assume videocard is buys most of the time with resizing windows 
>>> (in
>>> KDE for example).
>>
>> Yes, but you would need to ensure its a Macintosh version of the card,
>> or at the worst, a PC version of the card flashed with the Macintosh
>> BIOS, or else the machine will not be able to start it.
>>
>> You might want to try using YellowDog 3.x on that machine rather than
>> 4.x, as 3.x comes with the required tools to boot on Old World PPC
>> machines.
>>
>> Cian
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