Fwd: Sound and BCM4318 wireless no longer working in Wheezy on late 2005 G5

[Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com>]

This may have some relevance to bug#713943

Begin forwarded message from Debian PowerPC list:

> Resent-From: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org
> From: Chris Wareham <chris@chriswareham.net>
> Date: August 5, 2013 12:27:06 PM PDT
> To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Sound and BCM4318 wireless no longer working in Wheezy  
> on late 2005 G5
>
> Michel Dänzer said on 05/08/13 10:15:
> > On Son, 2013-08-04 at 22:20 +0000, Chris Wareham wrote:
> > > I've been tracking Debian Wheezy on my late 2005 dual G5 Powermac  
> > > the
> > > middle of last year. Everything has worked fine (Bluetooth / BCM4318
> > > wireless combo card, sound, etc) until around the time of the 7.1
> > > release. The first thing that went wrong was the fans switching to  
> > > full
> > > power, which has already been noted on this list.
> >
> > For the fans, make sure the i2c_powermac module is loaded. Not sure
> > about your other problems though.
>
> Hi Michel,
>
> The i2c_powermac module wasn't loaded - now that it is, the problem  
> with the fans running at full blast is solved. As for the other  
> issues, I notice in the dmesg output there's a message saying that  
> the snd-powermac module shouldn't be loaded. Removing it doesn't  
> change things though.
>
> Regards,
>
> Chris