Re: Depair: Help for installing Woody on an ibook (M8587) needed - LONG
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 09:31:41PM +0100, Georg Koss wrote:
> I bought an ibook (M8597) last week intending to install Woody solely
> ;-).
Good reason to buy one ! I just bought one recently for a similar reason,
though I really needed something to work ;-)
> Nope - I tried a lot of different settings resulting all in a
> kernel-panic. =8-(
> Last I see is something concerning NET 4.
I wasn't as persistent, but I tried a couple of different configs, but
it gave kernel panics. I don't remember where.. It was the 2.4.18 ben0 tree,
but I could be wrong.
> Therefore I would peg somebody out here with a working 2.4.18 or
> similar on a recent ibook (500) to send me her's/his' config-xxx, cause
> I don't find my error(s).
I use the precompiled kernel from ibooklinux.net, the 2.4.18-ben0 one,
and that works fine for some reason. No panics anywhere. They have the
config file available there too.
> Despite that, there seems to be a problem in recognizing the
> ethernet-card correctly with my config. (GMAC=y, lastly BMAC=y)
I thought that the ben0 tree had GMAC, but the standard kernel didn't.
I installed from the woody netinst ISO from cdimage.d.o and it worked
great. Detected eth0 and I installed woody using http.
> eth9 PHY ID: 0x004061e4
> eth0: Warning ! Unknown PHY ID 0x004061e4 !
> Link state change, pyh_status: 0x782d
> full_duplex: 0, speed: 10
I get that too, but I don't think that means anything. At least its
been giving that warning everytime, but everything works fine.
Hope that was helpful.
viral
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