On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 09:23, Barry wrote: > Thanks to you and to John Wright and others for the suggestions. I > downloaded the current YDL 4, and finally succeeded to get a system on > the machine, and running. But there are a couple problems. Any insight > would be appreciated. > > The installer balked the first two times, but actually started on the > third and ran through. Twice (once with python, which would have been > inconvenient) I was told I had CD errors, but I chose to try again and > the installer eventually loaded all the software before crashing, as > explained in the link below. > > Of course by using the latest version, I got kernel 2.6.10 installed > along with everything else, but I had 2.6.8 on the Mac partition for > BootX, so I have no modules. > > There were two obvious problems: > 1. I had put in a 100mb Adaptec ethernet card but it wasn't recognized > 2. The DMA was turned off for my CDROM (blacklisted say the logs) > > I copied the newer kernel to the Mac side and tried that. It of course > has its modules and it booted up fine. But I had no useable ethernet. > The logs say it loaded the tulip driver. The logs also show that > pcmcia started. But no ethernet was active. (But the CD DMA was OK). > > I guess I'll try compiling a new 2.6.8 kernel for the modules. But > were there problems with Adaptec ethernet cards on those machines?
Hey Barry I'm glad you've got ydl 4 instaled on your G3 I never could get it installed on my Mac 8600 I do not know if the Sonnet/Cresendo G4 upgrade proc card caused it not to install or what and I even booted with the same kernel you did. So I'm stumped Anyone have any comments/solutions to this? Mac 8600 Sonnet Cresendo G4 400Mhz proc card ATI Rage128 15meg video card 496megs Ram Thanks Jim _______________________________________________ yellowdog-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com'
