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Re: powermac clock on 7200



On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 04:20:49PM -0400, James Waterhouse wrote:
> Hello all,
>     can anyone tell me... are we supposed to be able to set the hardware
> clock from within linux? I'm running kernel 2.2.14 on a powermac 7200
> and when I try to set the clock using I get the following...
> 
> root@node7:~# hwclock --debug
> hwclock 2.4c/util-linux-2.10f
> hwclock: Open of /dev/rtc failed, errno=19: No such device.
> No usable clock interface found.
> Cannot access the Hardware Clock via any known method.  Use --debug
> option to see the details of our search for an access method.

use `clock' instead of hwclock, ppc needs a different userland
utility.  (why not add ppc rtc support to hwclock?)

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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