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  trouble with lenny         


Author: Paride Desimone
Date: Dec 26, 2008 15:50

Hi,
I have install on iMag G3 NewWorld, Lenny.
A very minimal install. No Xorg, just the base system.
Seems everithing ok, but when I connect with any user, root included,
Lenny tell me:
You are required to change your password immediatly (root enforced).
Any idea?

Excuse for my bad english.

/paride

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  Re: yaboot partition + /boot partition ?         


Author: Brad Boyer
Date: Dec 26, 2008 13:30

On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 11:19:36PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> This /boot would most naturally use ext2/ext3, but a more appealing
> solution would be to make /boot into an hfsplus partition so I can
> put yaboot in it as well.
>
> Yet, the yaboot documentation says:
>
> While it's possible to install yaboot on a mountable HFS
> /boot partition, that configuration is deprecated,
> discouraged and completely unsupported.
>
> Does anyone know *why* this is discouraged?

As I remember it, the biggest issue was that if you mark it as a type
of Apple_HFS so that you can mount it from macos it will become
unbootable after it gets mounted by the macos. One of the reasons
people wanted yaboot on /boot was to write new kernels and configs
from the macos. I think there were also worries about corrupting
the filesystem due to bugs in the hfs and/or hfsplus drivers in Linux.
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  Can't get xorg working on iBook - Help please!         


Author: Bob Lounsbury
Date: Dec 26, 2008 09:30

Has anyone experienced the error in the attached Xorg.0.log file? I've
also attached my xorg.conf. I've tried all sorts of changes to the
xorg.conf, but nothing works.

Thanks
/Bob
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  Overseas partner for assistance         


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Date: Dec 24, 2008 08:40

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  MOL not working on Lenny - tun0 problem         


Author: Michael Fox
Date: Sep 22, 2008 11:00

I am trying to run the program Mac-on-Linux on Lenny running on my
PowerBook G4/1.33 and when I type in the startup command on a
terminal, I get the following. (I added the boldface to direct this
question.)

Starting MOL session 0
Loading Mac-on-Linux kernel module:
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.26-1-powerpc/extra/mol/mol.ko
Creating the /dev/sheep_net device node.
Loading SheepNet kernel module:
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.26-1-powerpc/extra/mol/sheep.ko
Loading tun driver kernel module:
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.26-1-powerpc/kernel/drivers/net/tun.ko
Running in PowerPC 7400 mode, 256 MB RAM
...
Message from syslogd@debian at Sep 21 22:31:57 ...
kernel:[ 603.624807] unregister_netdevice: waiting for tun0 to become
free. Usage count = 3
Terminating threads...
DONE
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  Re: ndiswrapper fails to build         


Author: Gunther Furtado
Date: Sep 22, 2008 06:50

Em Mon, 22 Sep 2008 03:12:05 +0200
benoar escreveu:
> On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 21:35:34 -0300, Gunther Furtado
> gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've been trying to build ndiswrapper using module-assistant with no
>> success.
>>
>> The machine is an clamshell iBook 300Mhz running debian lenny
>> official kernel.
>>
>> Any hints?
>
> ndiswrapper can't work on ppc machines because the windows wifi
> drivers are not emulated but are directly run on the processor, which
> is impossible here as they are made for the x86 architecture.
> Why do you want to use ndiswrapper ?
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  Re: ndiswrapper fails to build         


Author: Gaudenz Steinlin
Date: Sep 22, 2008 01:40

On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 03:12:05AM +0200, benoar wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 21:35:34 -0300, Gunther Furtado gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've been trying to build ndiswrapper using module-assistant with no
>> success.
>>
>> The machine is an clamshell iBook 300Mhz running debian lenny official
>> kernel.
>>
>> Any hints?
>
> ndiswrapper can't work on ppc machines because the windows wifi drivers are
> not emulated but are directly run on the processor, which is impossible
> here as they are made for the x86 architecture.
> Why do you want to use ndiswrapper ? What wifi chip are you using ? If it's
> for the broadcom included in most macintoshes, the b43 driver will do.
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  airport stops working on debian side of computer         


Author: Cheryl Homiak
Date: Sep 19, 2008 18:10

I am running a ppc mac mini with the broadcom chip (bcm4306); am running
debian unstable with kernel 2.6.26-1; have just updated with apt-get
hoping this would ix the problem but it didn't. My wireless suddenly
stopped working--using airport extreme--but still works fine on the mac
side of the computer. /var/log/messages shows all the broadcom components
being loaded but shows link not ready when brought up. cat /proc/net/dev
shows wlan0_rename (also a eth1) but all zeros. The relevant part of lspci
-knn shows:

0001:10:12.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4320] (rev 03)
Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge
Kernel modules: ssb

I did make the firmware changes as instructed with the 2.6.25 kernel
and this problem didn't occur when I changed to 2.6.26.
Has anybody had
this happen and are there other tests I should run or other
logs in which I need to look to find out wt is wrong?

tia.

--

Cheryl
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  Re: Bug#499231: updated initramfs-tools now kernel oops during boot sequence         


Author: Rick Thomas
Date: Sep 17, 2008 14:10

On Sep 17, 2008, at 4:02 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
> I have another system running Sid. I haven't done a dist-upgrade
> on it yet. So I'll see what happens there.

I did the dist-upgrade on my other G4 running Sid, and the oops
doesn't happen.

Looking at the syslog extracts, it seems that the failing machine
oops-es when it's trying to initialize its Radeon video driver. The
machine that doesn't oops has an ATI Rage video card. The traceback
also mentions radeon. So that's probably where the problem lies.

Do others with Radeon cards have this problem?

Here's the relevant part of "lspci -v" for each of the machines,
incase it's useful:
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  Bug#499248: CPU 64/32 bit detection missing for powerpc         


Author: Michel Dänzer
Date: Sep 17, 2008 04:10

Package: libjogl-java
Version: 1.1.1-1
Severity: important
Tags: patch

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

The attached patch adds the missing CPU detection for powerpc. This allows
worldwind to run.

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (102, 'experimental')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26.5
Locale: LANG=de_CH.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_CH.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
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