On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 09:31:41PM +0100, Georg Koss wrote: > I bought an ibook (M8597) last week intending to install Woody solely > ;-).
Good reason to buy one ! I just bought one recently for a similar reason, though I really needed something to work ;-) > Nope - I tried a lot of different settings resulting all in a > kernel-panic. =8-( > Last I see is something concerning NET 4. I wasn't as persistent, but I tried a couple of different configs, but it gave kernel panics. I don't remember where.. It was the 2.4.18 ben0 tree, but I could be wrong. > Therefore I would peg somebody out here with a working 2.4.18 or > similar on a recent ibook (500) to send me her's/his' config-xxx, cause > I don't find my error(s). I use the precompiled kernel from ibooklinux.net, the 2.4.18-ben0 one, and that works fine for some reason. No panics anywhere. They have the config file available there too. > Despite that, there seems to be a problem in recognizing the > ethernet-card correctly with my config. (GMAC=y, lastly BMAC=y) I thought that the ben0 tree had GMAC, but the standard kernel didn't. I installed from the woody netinst ISO from cdimage.d.o and it worked great. Detected eth0 and I installed woody using http. > eth9 PHY ID: 0x004061e4 > eth0: Warning ! Unknown PHY ID 0x004061e4 ! > Link state change, pyh_status: 0x782d > full_duplex: 0, speed: 10 I get that too, but I don't think that means anything. At least its been giving that warning everytime, but everything works fine. Hope that was helpful. viral -- http://www.mayin.org/~gandalf I'll see you on the Dark Side of the Moon.
