Full 16 mHz command line glory. Some commands run mighty slow, and I have not even bothered trying a GUI. By the way, Debian on the SE/30 was my first ever Linux installation and first ever Linux experience. I later found easier ways and now make my living using Linux. I'm not a developer though I can test with my old hardware. I have some extra partitions available. Let me upgrade to kernel 2.2.25 first though.Whoa - that's what I call dedication - that's a 16 MHz 030, right (at least it felt like that when I last used it). We used a SE/30 to showcase Debian/68k on the first Linux Expo...
What I see as output from " date " is an accurate date, but from " hwclock " is a complaint that the date is not within range. "hwclock --systohc " does nothing. I thought I saw something in the 2.2.25 kernel that fixed the hardware clock issue. Let me do some catch up with kernels before tinkering or saying anything further. My 2.2.6 kernel is stable for me but way way out of date.What I would like to know is if there is a " hwclock " solution yet. The computer keeps great time as revealed by " date ", but I think " at " and "cron " need the hardware clock to work.at should not do direct hardware clock calls. If it really does, we'd need a fake-hwclk kernel module to keep it happy (fixing the hwclock kernel module for mac would be prefered, but that requires real hardware to test). The kernel uses hwclock on boot as Christian mentioned, but you can disable that (might suffice to move /sbin/hwclock to a different place). After that, it's no longer required, and ntp can be configured to never touch the hardware clock at all
Richard