Bug#281878: installation-reports: Several failures with RC1 on Oldworld Powermac

[Christian Mack <mack_kn@gmx.de>]

Cameron Patrick wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 07:51:27PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
< ...>
> The 2.4 boot.img works (kinda), but the 2.6 one still hangs with the
> penguin-mac icon (at the point where 2.4 ejects the floppy and starts
> the kernel).
>
> For some reason the installer defaulted to a more 'verbose' mode than
> I've seen before (on i386 and alpha).
>
> DHCP didn't work; according to ethereal, it never sent out any DHCP
> requests.  When I set up networking by hand, it complained about
> having a "bad archive mirror".  It seems to be a problem with the
> network driver (mace): it detects a different MAC address to what Open
> Firmware and NetBSD give it (00:05:02:22:16:2C in Debian, vs
> 00:A0:40:44:68:34 elsewhere).  Dmesg also reports "mace: lost a status
> word".
>
> Cameron.

Hello Cameron

Strange, the bytes seem to be reversed:
05 => 0000 0101 versus A0 => 1010 0000
02 => 0000 0010 versus 40 => 0100 0000
22 => 0010 0010 versus 44 => 0100 0100
16 => 0001 0110 versus 68 => 0110 1000
2C => 0010 1100 versus 34 => 0011 0100

Bye
Christian