> -----Original Message----- > From: Brad Boyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2004 06:16 AM > To: 'ma_pri_2004' > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Web Server on a Mac IIcI with an Etherlink/NB? > > On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 01:05:30AM +0200, ma_pri_2004 wrote: > > Somebody gave me a Mac IIcI which I want to use it as a small server and > > to learn a bit more of linux. It has a Chache Card, a nic (3com > > etherlink/nb), and a graphic card with vga (supermac). I added a hard > > disc (540 MB SCSI). > > I don?t know how much ram is in it (all banks are filled). The guy who > > gave me the mac said that the floppy is broken, but all other components > > are OK. > > > > Having never used a mac, and not having linux m86k experience, I have > > the following questions: > > 1) does anyone have running sarge on an Mac IIcI? Or runs only woody? > > If woody runs, then upgrading it to sarge should work fine. However, the > new installer may or may not work. I know people had slink running on > those things, if nothing else. The upgrade from slink to woody wasn't > too terrible. > Woody installs just fine on this system using one of the more recent kernels. You probably want at a minimum kernel version 2.2.20, but using the latest from the m68k Macintosh SourceForge site will give the best results. You'll want at least 16MB of memory.
> > 2) Do driver for the 3Com Etherlink/NB exist? > > At http://www.linux-m68k.org/faq/faq.html is written (debian manual > > says to look there): > > "As for drivers, we have NCR5380 and NCR53c9[46] SCSI, Mac > > IDE, NS8390 (Daynaport) Ethernet, NuBus, ADB (Mac-II, IIsi and CUDA > > styles) for keyboard and mouse (also used by some NeXTs), video (most > > of Apple's video boards, except RBV--RAM-based video--boards), and > > probably some other goodies. We also have a working installer and > > booter (Penguin)." > > Googling showed me that some guys used this NIC with NetBSD > > That list of drivers is pretty old. There are drivers for three or four > different expansion board designs. If you can read any part numbers > from the chips on the ethernet card, that is probably enough to say if > one of the current drivers should work. > I have two different versions of this card and they are both supported by the 2.2.25 kernel an most likely a few earlier kernels. > > 3) Any idea how to find out what the model of this "SuperMac"-Card is? > > At www.xfree86.org I didn?t find driver for any SuperMac cards. > > After googling I know from a photo that it is not a SuperMac > > Thunder24. > > On the card are 5 chips called: "BT", "BSR03", "ECLIPTEK EC1100 > > 44.900 MHz", "SQD-01", the last one is unreadable > > No video card that works in a 68k Mac is directly supported by xfree86. > We have to use X with the generic framebuffer driver, which means it > just uses the support built into the kernel for the console. It's slow, > but as long as the kernel can display anything for the console, then > X will work, too. It is hard to say if it works without trying it. Many > nubus video cards not only do not work, they keep everything else from > working because the interrupts from the card flood the system. I have > a radius card that kills linux every time. > > The IIci has video built into the motherboard (RBV), but that has been > known to cause problems sometimes. Even the most minor changes to the > kernel seem to break it until someone fixes it. However, some kernels > are known to have working support (2.2.x only, I think). > Any of the more recent 2.2.x kernels should work just fine with the onboard video in the IIci. Ray Knight http://www.nubuslinux.org
