useable NICs under debian//ppc, booting G4 mac
hello,
i am relatively new to debian (i used it a few years ago on x86...)
'cos i moved from SuSE to debian (now guess why ;)
i do have a few machines at home:
one pre-gbit g4 (1gig of ram, two ata-discs)
one pm 8200/120 (64meg, one 1gig scsi hd and one 4gb scsi hd,
additional smc 9432tx 'etherpower II' and a farallon 10/100 card
based on a DEC 21143 chipset 'Tulip')
one Sun SPARCstation 5 Model 170 and one half Ultra (has to be re-assembled ;)
ok, so i used to build the 8200 as a tiny server (if it works fine,
it'll get a controller and a really big hd) using netatalk, nfs
(perhaps, after a while, nis additionally) and smb (when friends with
their x86 come).
using suse linux netatalk ran fine for me, even nfs worked.
fortunately it wasn't able to address any other NIC than the onboard
one (just 10mbit, oh dear) -- it's capitalistic, too, so... ;)
ok, now my two questions of the day:
* is there any way to become one of these additional NICs running (i
just have two different in this machine cos i wanted to test which
one works under suse -- none of them did)? under suse the smc card
(using the 'epic100'-driver) hangs the *whole* system (hard reset
req'd), e.g. by typing 'rcnetwork restart'. the farallon card doesn't
work cos of 'i/o-errors', don't know the exact words... [both cards
work fine under mac os -- but asip died in the last weeks and doesn't
talk nfs/nis]
* have problems booting my g4 via bootX (guess, this is the wrongest
way for a new world machine, isn't it?) as far as i have seen, debian
utilizes yaboot, too. i'll try it that way...
*** is there any working NIC besides the onboard ones? ***
tia, timo
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Timo
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