Hi all! i am quite exciting because i have managed to get a compiled kernel to BOOT properly on my powerbook G4 ver 6,8 after almost 6 months, a few fruitless attempts in IRC and a couple of messages to the list, The answer came in the form of an amazing hack by Guy Yasko. I quote his reply:
============================================== Hello, I can now boot 2.6.14.3. I was able to do this after I commented out the pmac_tweak_clock_spreading(1); line in arch/ppc/platforms/pmac_feature.c ================================================= This bit did the trick so that now i can enjoy things like sound, touchpad with synaptics capabilites and so on which make this powerbook really excellent! Anyway, the most serious remaining issue is the Aiport thing! Although I have compiled the required stuff from the recently reversed engineered bcm project, and altough i can load the modules and iwconfig sees correctly the interface (as eth2) it cannot get assocciated with the access point!!! I have tried static IP etc with no success. Actually when i try to run ifup eth2 what i get is SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory ie. the interface seems as if doesn't exist Moreover this is what my dmesg reads regarding bcm43xx: ======================================== bcm43xx driver 0.0.1 bcm43xx: Chip ID 0x4306, rev 0x3 bcm43xx: Number of cores: 5 bcm43xx: Core 0: ID 0x800, rev 0x4, vendor 0x4243, enabled bcm43xx: Core 1: ID 0x812, rev 0x5, vendor 0x4243, disabled bcm43xx: Core 2: ID 0x80d, rev 0x2, vendor 0x4243, enabled bcm43xx: Core 3: ID 0x807, rev 0x2, vendor 0x4243, disabled bcm43xx: Core 4: ID 0x804, rev 0x9, vendor 0x4243, enabled bcm43xx: PHY connected bcm43xx: Detected PHY: Version: 2, Type 2, Revision 2 bcm43xx: Detected Radio: ID: 2205017f (Manuf: 17f Ver: 2050 Rev: 2) bcm43xx: Radio turned off bcm43xx: Radio turned off bcm43xx: PHY connected bcm43xx: Error: Microcode "bcm43xx_microcode5.fw" not available or load failed. bcm43xx: PHY connected bcm43xx: Error: Microcode "bcm43xx_microcode5.fw" not available or load failed. ====================================================== any ideas how to get through these errors??? thanks in advance and foremostly for the power that the community is!!!! keep up the excellent work!!!! Emmanuel Galatoulas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
