On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 03:50:51PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > [I posted this to debian-laptop a week ago, but got no reply. I hope you can > > help me.] > > > > Hi, > > > > Saturday I tried to install Debian on my friend's brand new ibook. > > I am experienced with debian on i368, but don't know about macs. Also, > > I don't have any Debian CDs of the PPC build, so I tried a net install. > > This all worked smoothly on a iMac. But I had some problems on the > > new iBook dual USB: > > > > I booted the installation system that I downloaded from sourgeforge [1] > > using yaboot, everyting went fine, till I tried to install the rest of > > the system over the net. It claimed > > > > Unknown PHY ID (forgot the number). > > > > It seems, debian does not recognise the ethernet adapter of the ibook. Is > > there a updated installation system? Do you have any other ideas, > > how to install debian on a new iBook? > > > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > Matthias > > > > [1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/debian-imac/ > > I put the debian-imac package together a few months ago (end of April to be > precise). I don't remember seeing any changes to the 2.2.19 kernel in that > time, which might incorporate your card. OTOH, in > > http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-powerpc/current/pow > ermac/ > > I see the linux kernel image is dated 10-Jul-2001 13:45 > so maybe it's more up to date. If just substituting that kernel solves the > problem, let me know and I'll update the debian-imac archive. > > If not, and I suspect it won't, then perhaps the card is supported in the > 2.4 series kernels (I read on this list that rsync'ing the benh kernel is > the way to go.) Maybe you could build the kernel on the iMac, and transfer > it to the iBook? > > Another line of attack might be using modprobe to determine what chip the > card is using -- btw I'm way out of my league here. Perhaps someone else on > the list has an idea.
scanpci or lspci would be more adequate here, but still, i guess using a 2.4.x kernel would be an easier way to solve this, or maybe a newer 2.2.x, where the driver has been back ported to. modprobe is just used to add a module to the kernel, but for that you have to know what modules it needs to be. Friendly, Sven Luther
