Hi, On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 14:28, Shawn Powers wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm new to the debian crowd, but have been the sysadmin of many RedHat > servers for years. I have an original 66Mhz bus "snow" ibook, and > desperately want to use debian on it. I assure you I have tried to RTFM > (mailing list archive, google searches, install guides, etc) for a long > time before emailing this... > > I have gotten this far: X works, not accelerated, but I can handle > working on that later. Sound works. Power Management works. I have not > tried USB, Firewire, or video out. The big kicker is that I can't get my > network to work. I installed via ethernet, but after I followed the > directions at ibooklinux.net to install a precompiled benh kernel -- > ethernet is broken. (I did add the alias gmac eth0 line to modules.conf, > didnt' help)
That should be "alias eth0 gmac" > It appears that my airport card has taken the role of eth0, and my > ethernet port is nowhere to be found. I haven't tried to set up the > airport card yet, but running ifconfig shows teh MAC address of my airport > card for eth0. I would like to have airport working, so I can use it at > home, but again -- one step at a time. :) > > Sorry to send out the "help me I can't get my computer working" email, but > I really do want to use debian, and not have to install OSX again. Cheers -- /Bastien Nocera http://hadess.net #2 0x4205a2cc in printf ("Oh my %s\n", preferred_deity) from /lib/i686/libc.so.6 printf ("Oh my %s\n", preferred_deity); Segmentation fault
