Hello, Debian works best on the 3400c. Depending on the chipset the wireless lan works fine. My Lucent card does. Besides, on a Kanga Yellow Dog works best. But only one of the older releases.
There is even a software package for powerbooks making all buttons work (brigthness, loudness) and shows them onscreen like on MacOS. Battery works longer then with MacOS :) Sound works fine of course. battery and power status are recogniced. Works fine. Sleep works, closing lid works. CD rom works, but on my drive i can not get audio working. I read somewhere this depends on the drive you have. Cause Unix is a 3 button OS, it is possible to map the missing buttons onto the last two F keys. The grapic drivers for X are not as good as those from MacOS. Fast enough for everthing but to view a movie. Firefox is usable. It is a little tricky to get the right kernel, but then it works flawless. The problem is, you boot the kernel from MacOS and therefore you need the right one from start. Depending on your keyboard you need to configure your X to have all keys. So, dont do it until you have the patience to figure everything out :) I have a howto online, but its german. Let me know if you need some informations, then i ll try to translate it. I needed a Unix back when i did this for network debugging with customers. But to be true, its better to have a MacOS on it and switch to a small intel based notebook for Unix ;) Not everything is ported to PPC and some software does not compile on the PPC. There is a ssh for Mac and even some network tools for ping, traceroute and so on. Today i use a IBM T20 700 MHz with a FreeBSD current. Its small and just perfect with FreeBSD. > I have a powerbook 3400c that I use quite often for simple tasks like > text / email even some simple browsing etc... It's maxed out Ram and > very good battery (1+ hours) with 2gb hdd. > I recently bought and start using Avaya wireless and it just gave a > whole new enjoyment to it... > > However, I am now curious, whether I could switch to one of those > Unix/Linux flavors out there that can be installed and run on pb3400c (I > think DebianPPC, NetBSD are to name but few...) > > How many people out there has actually tried any of these unix/linux on > pb3400? Can wireless be still working? and which flavor of linux/unix is > better suited to pb? -- +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | () Gruesse/regards [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | /\ Manfred Guentner www.serv.de.eu.org | +---------------------------------------------------------------+ -- PowerBooks is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PowerBooks list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[email protected]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/> iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
