On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, Justin Christopher wrote:
> Well, bad news. > > Today I burned the isos for Beta 2 and installed on my > iBook2 when I got home. > > I chose expert install. Everything seemed to go fine. > The bug involving the installer not seeing cd #2 is > fixed. > > It found my built in ethernet and offered to configure > it. I choose DHCP. It said "do you have another?". I > said yes, and told it "Apple Airport driver". I offers > me the same IP config information, I choose yes. Do > you want to start these at boot? "yes". > > The installer prompts me to remove the installer cd > and reboot, I do so. The bootloader works fine, and > things start loading up. > > Getting an IP on eth0 and eth1 both fail. Don't know > why. Windows and Mac OS X clients can get IPs from my > Airport Base station over either the wired or 802.11b > interface flawlessly. > > A few more lines go by, and then up comes "checking > for internet connections to start at boot". It just > sits there with a flashing cursor and never continues. > 45 minutes so far, and I suspect, like the last > version, it will stay like that forever. > > This is very disappointing: > > 1. There is still some issue that prevent Mandrake > from getting DHCP info from an Apple base station. > > 2. I can accept the fact that getting IPs failed, but > for it to hang forever trying to start nonexistant > connections is dumb. This line HAS to have a timeout. > > As for a Linux for PPC that has working networking, > modem, sound, airport on this computer, I will keep > looking :( > I guess I'm a little confused on why you folks want to bring up both interfaces. Are you tying to 2 different subnets with airport and the wired interface? I use dhcpd for my whole network here. Saying things are broken because you have trouble with 1 specific piece of Apple hardware is a little unfair. The other infinite timeout I've yet to see. Is there some other option you're choosing besides dhcp that adds in this other startup option? I never see any "checking for internet connections to start at boot". My dhcpd server provides the client machines with everything they need to connect to the internet. There is no other connection that needs to be started. Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/PPC/FAQ/
