Subject: Re: YDL 2.0 on a PowerBook 2400
From: Rob (orthanc@crispdata.com)
Date: Mon Apr 16 2001 - 03:20:31 MDT
Thanks for the info Tim. It gave me enough clues to get further, but I'm not
quite there. Can you send/post your /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia and
/etc/pcmcia/config* files? Did you use i82365 for the controller type? My
sysconfig/pcmcia is:
PCMCIA=yes
PCIC=i82365
PCIC_OPTS=do_scan=0
CORE_OPTS=
Right now, after I installed the package, changed the config as above, and
changed the K96pcmcia in rc3.d to S96pcmcia, it seems to load and recognize
the card as a Kingston KNE-PC2 Ethernet, which is in the /etc/pcmcia/config
file. That page says that it should be supported on ppc. That translates
into loading the 8390 and pcnet_cs modules. But when it does the modprobe
pcnet_cs it gives a message "kernel: pcnet_cs: RequestIO: No more items",
and then "cardmgr[403]: get dev info on socket 0 failed: no such device".
So it's getting tripped up on something.
BTW, At what point does the device entry for eth0 get created?
I never got the Cardbus upgrade hack. What cards has it let you use?
I'm not planning on running X once things are configured. I figure that
Apache+PHP will work, but wasn't sure about the minimum footprint of mySQL
or Postgres.
Thanks
-Rob
on 9/16/01 12:02 AM, Timothy A. Seufert at tas@mindspring.com wrote:
> At 9:41 PM -0700 4/15/01, Rob wrote:
>> Hi, I'm trying to configure YDL 2.0 on my 2400 (80M/4G). I know this is an
>> 'unsupported' installation but it's supposed to work. The install went OK
>> with an external SCSI CD-ROM, but it doesn't seem to have loaded any support
>> for the PCMCIA slots. Since there's no built-in network card, I need the
>> PCMCIA slots activated.
>
> I have a 2400 too, and have been dealing with some of the same problems.
>
>> So a few questions:
>>
>> 1- What do I have to do to enable the slots? cardinfo doesn't seem to be
>> installed. I tried installing the PCMCIA package, but it didn't do anything
>> and I don't know how to build it if that's what is required.
>
> I got partial functionality by building a custom 2.4 kernel. I say
> partial because only CardBus cards work, not plain PCMCIA. I've been
> told there are fixes for PCMCIA in some 2.4 kernel sources out there
> and when I get a chance I plan to play with that and see what I can
> get running.
>
> (Note: unmodified 2400s usually cannot use CardBus cards period, I
> had to do a hardware hack to mine to allow them to be inserted
> without crashing/hanging the computer.)
>
> You should probably stick with 2.2. I'm pretty sure you should be
> able to get it working without compiling a new kernel. The cardinfo
> program may not be installed, but it's not necessary -- try the
> cardctl command line tool (cardctl status, cardctl ident, so on and
> so forth).
>
>> 2- The Ethernet card is an old Kingston 10Mb card. Do I need any special
>> drivers for it?
>
> See:
>
> http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ftp/SUPPORTED.CARDS
>
> for a list of supported cards and the drivers associated with them.
> Very handy because it also lists whether the driver works on PPC or
> not. It looks like yours is probably supported.
>
>> 3- The YDL X installation program recognized the 2400's touch pad and let me
>> use it as the mouse button as well. I need this because the touch pad button
>> is completely worn and doesn't work anymore at all. How can I enable this
>> feature? Also, what are the shortcuts for center and right mouse?
>
> The "trackpad" program is your friend. You must be root to run it
> because by default the /dev/adb device does not allow non-superusers
> to write to it.
>
> By default, F11 and F12 should be the center and right mouse button.
>
>> 4- How much memory does MySQL/Apache/Postgres need to run? Can I fit
>> MySQL/PHP/Apache in the 80M which I have? Postgres (i assume not, but would
>> like to know if it might work)?
>
> I would guess Apache by itself would not be a problem so long as you
> aren't running X11. But heck, the worst you can do is try it and see
> what happens.
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