Re: Web Server on a Mac IIcI with an Etherlink/NB?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brad Boyer [mailto:flar@allandria.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2004 06:16 AM
> To: 'ma_pri_2004'
> Cc: debian-68k@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Web Server on a Mac IIcI with an Etherlink/NB?
>
> On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 01:05:30AM +0200, ma_pri_2004 wrote:
> > Somebody gave me a Mac IIcI which I want to use it as a small server and
> > to learn a bit more of linux. It has a Chache Card, a nic (3com
> > etherlink/nb), and a graphic card with vga (supermac). I added a hard
> > disc (540 MB SCSI).
> > I don?t know how much ram is in it (all banks are filled). The guy who
> > gave me the mac said that the floppy is broken, but all other components
> > are OK.
> >
> > Having never used a mac, and not having linux m86k experience, I have
> > the following questions:
> > 1) does anyone have running sarge on an Mac IIcI? Or runs only woody?
>
> If woody runs, then upgrading it to sarge should work fine. However, the
> new installer may or may not work. I know people had slink running on
> those things, if nothing else. The upgrade from slink to woody wasn't
> too terrible.
>
Woody installs just fine on this system using one of the more recent kernels.
You probably want at a minimum kernel version 2.2.20, but using the latest from the m68k Macintosh SourceForge site will give the best results. You'll want at least 16MB of memory.
> > 2) Do driver for the 3Com Etherlink/NB exist?
> > At http://www.linux-m68k.org/faq/faq.html is written (debian manual
> > says to look there):
> > "As for drivers, we have NCR5380 and NCR53c9[46] SCSI, Mac
> > IDE, NS8390 (Daynaport) Ethernet, NuBus, ADB (Mac-II, IIsi and CUDA
> > styles) for keyboard and mouse (also used by some NeXTs), video (most
> > of Apple's video boards, except RBV--RAM-based video--boards), and
> > probably some other goodies. We also have a working installer and
> > booter (Penguin)."
> > Googling showed me that some guys used this NIC with NetBSD
>
> That list of drivers is pretty old. There are drivers for three or four
> different expansion board designs. If you can read any part numbers
> from the chips on the ethernet card, that is probably enough to say if
> one of the current drivers should work.
>
I have two different versions of this card and they are both supported by the 2.2.25 kernel an most likely a few earlier kernels.
> > 3) Any idea how to find out what the model of this "SuperMac"-Card is?
> > At www.xfree86.org I didn?t find driver for any SuperMac cards.
> > After googling I know from a photo that it is not a SuperMac
> > Thunder24.
> > On the card are 5 chips called: "BT", "BSR03", "ECLIPTEK EC1100
> > 44.900 MHz", "SQD-01", the last one is unreadable
>
> No video card that works in a 68k Mac is directly supported by xfree86.
> We have to use X with the generic framebuffer driver, which means it
> just uses the support built into the kernel for the console. It's slow,
> but as long as the kernel can display anything for the console, then
> X will work, too. It is hard to say if it works without trying it. Many
> nubus video cards not only do not work, they keep everything else from
> working because the interrupts from the card flood the system. I have
> a radius card that kills linux every time.
>
> The IIci has video built into the motherboard (RBV), but that has been
> known to cause problems sometimes. Even the most minor changes to the
> kernel seem to break it until someone fixes it. However, some kernels
> are known to have working support (2.2.x only, I think).
>
Any of the more recent 2.2.x kernels should work just fine with the onboard video in the IIci.
Ray Knight
http://www.nubuslinux.org
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