Sort of what I was afraid of. I had problems with Yellow-dog and I much prefer Mandrake, but to go back to Linux on my iBook I need to be able to use power management, internal modem, and gphoto without problems.
I work as a Heating and Air Conditioning tech and my iBook is considered a tool. I am on the road all day and have to constantly unplug, close cover, take into service calls, data entry, go back to truck, plug into printer, print, transmit information and so on. Unfortunately the last few times I tried Linux this is not happening, though I wish it would. I miss my Mandrake desktop :-(
In the meantime OS/X seems pretty stable for my needs - just a little slower than I would like it.
-Chris
On Saturday, February 8, 2003, at 12:44 PM, Thierry de Coulon wrote:
On Saturday 08 February 2003 14:58, Christopher Molnar wrote:Before I go and once again blow away a working OS/X install and installDid not try but I doubt. AFAIK the modem in the new iBook is a software modem.
Beta 2 can anyone tell me (hopefully someone with a white ibook) if the
following items are working properly:
1) Internal modem
Does not work on Yellow Dog (video output does not either)
Basically (should not be mandrake-dependent) it depends on HOW your camera2) Power management (I need to be able to close lid, re-open, have a working kde session and not a loud feedback sound over the speaker)3) USB Ports recognizing things like a mobile phone (motorola) and HP Digital Camera.
works:
- if it conforms to usb-storage there should be no problem
- if it uses a proprietary way (such as Canon cameras) it "might" work with
gphoto2, but then I was never able to compile the latest version on ppc
If anyone has any experience with any of this I'd like to hear about it.Thierry
Thanks,
-Chris
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