Bug#299745: Drivers for newer G5 PowerMacs missing

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 11:36:31PM -0500, Nick Nassar wrote:
> Package: kernel
> Version: 2.6.8-power4
> 
> I have a recent PowerMac G5 (3.0) 1.8Ghz Boot ROM Version 5.2.2f2. I'm
> attempting to install Debian Sarge. The install-power4 kernel for the
> weekly installer build boots, however, the installer complains that it
> cannot find the CD-ROM drive. "ls -l /dev" shows no scsi or ide devices.

Are you sure the CD-ROM is a sata device and not a pata one ? 

> I believe that the problem is the k2-sata driver needed to see the
> drives is not included.

The correct driver is not k2-sata, but :

config SCSI_SATA_SVW
        tristate "ServerWorks Frodo / Apple K2 SATA support"
        depends on SCSI_SATA && PCI
        help
          This option enables support for Broadcom/Serverworks/Apple K2
          SATA support.

          If unsure, say N.

which would be the sata_svw.ko module, which is indeed built for the
2.6.8-power4 kernel, which is indeed present in the sata-modules .udeb.

Now, this means that the problem is probably not either a kernel or a
kernel-module .udeb problem, but most probably a discover problem, and we
would need your lspci and lspci -n output to fix this.

Also, maybe it would have been best if you had provided a installation-report
but against debian-installer for such stuff instead.

Friendly,

Sven Luther