[ydl-gen] Re: a couple of questions...

[Eric Dunbar]

Hi, sorry to see no one has answered your question yet. Post it again
on the yellowdog-general list.

IIRC Your iMac G3/333 will work with YDL 4.0.1 but it requires you to
modify the NIC type in /etc/modprobe.conf (see end of e-mail for
details). This is a problem that has crept up before so you may want
to check the archives for yellowdog-general.

PS I checked my inbox and found a fix that was posted for my Beige
G3/266 (see the bottom of this e-mail). I suspect your fix may be the
same or similar. Can someone else please chime in here?

Eric.

On 9/25/05, randall houser <mr_generic_user at yahoo.com> wrote:
>  i recently aquired an iMac g3 333mhz trayloader.  (i
> always wanted to get a mac and run linux on it)  after
> learning about some quirks in said machine i was able
> to install YDL 4 FEB 2005.
>
> my first problem is that kudzu seems to think that i
> removed the iMac keyboard, but i did not.  this seems
> minor though.
>
> the real problem is that YDL recognizes the NIC, but
> is unable to initialize it.  The NIC worked on the
> prior version of YDL 4, but in that version the Colors
> were incorrect and the sound didn't work.  in this
> it's just the NIC, any ideas of what i can to to fix
> this, or should i just get a usb NIC?

From: Daniel Gimpelevich <daniel at gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us>
Date: May 12, 2005 7:12 PM
Subject: Re: Beige G3/266, kernel 2.6.10 and no ethernet

It's a feature, not a bug. add the following line to /etc/modprobe.conf:
alias eth0 bmac

On Thu, 12 May 2005 19:32:06 -0400, Eric Dunbar wrote:

> The title says it all.
>
> I had to restart my YDL 4.0 (upgraded to 4.0.1) server running on a
> Beige G3/266 and decided to try out the new kernel.
>
> Well, it boots fine, I can login to GNOME just fine, but there's no
> networking interface and the activity light on my router doesn't light
> up.
>
> Also, on vt1 there's debugging info (starts with Mach 64) related to
> aftby (or something llike that... I think it's video related).
>
> I've downgraded to kernel 2.6.9 and my server's happy again (& so am I).
>
> Is there a problem with the latest (offical) YDL kernel on G3s?
>
> Eric.
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