G3 imac, networking, 2.6.12 kernel
I hate to keep pestering you folks with these, but...
I hit another glitch installing modern linux on archaic macs. (hey,
this one's _only_ 6 years old)
I just tried installing the stock 2.6.12 kernel on a G3 Imac (rev. D,
Paddington). The problem is:
a. the stock kernel doesn't have a driver for the network chip
compiled in.
b. the install procedures don't insmod the appropriate driver module
c. hotplug (testing/etch) package doesn't traverse the paddington
devices (macio bus).
d. It's not all that obvious which driver should be aliased to eth0.
I've poked around a bit and it seems that this is a common problem
with G3 macs where the devices are not visible to the pci bus.
So, what's the ''naive'' user to do....
- is there a powerpc package with the macio.rc patches for
hotplug? (see http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/
0503.0/0192.html) N.B. I'm assuming the kernel patches are in
2.6.12. The network device does show up in /sys..... so please
correct me if I'm wrong.)
- if not, is there a recipe for loading the drivers for the divers
macio devices.
- should a bug be filed against linux-kernel-2.6.12-powerpc? I ask
because 2.4.18 installed just fine.
Thnx,
--rich
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FWIW,
$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
cpu : 740/750
temperature : 23-25 C (uncalibrated)
clock : 333MHz
revision : 130.2 (pvr 0008 8202)
bogomips : 665.19
machine : iMac,1
motherboard : iMac MacRISC Power Macintosh
L2 cache : 512K unified
memory : 64MB
pmac-generation : NewWorld
$ lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Motorola MPC106 [Grackle] (rev 40)
0000:00:10.0 ff00: Apple Computer Inc. Paddington Mac I/O
0000:00:12.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage
Pro 215GP (rev 5c)
0000:00:14.0 USB Controller: Agere Systems USB (rev 12)
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