Olaf Hering wrote:
On Thu, Feb 15, nicola moretti wrote:
Hi all,
Can please someone tell me if there are known issues with the beige G3 on-board Ethernet and SuSE 6.4 (kernel 2.2.14)? Better yet, where can I look for further info/docs?
There is either a bug in the hardware that stops the package transfer (and maybe lockup the machine) or there is a bug in the driver. This is a known behaviour and it is possible that it still occours with recent kernels (2.2.19pre or 2.4.2pre).
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Please try 2.2.18 from our ftp server: ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/kernel/2.2.18/k_pmac-2.2.18-0.ppc.rpm You need to update the modutils: ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/kernel/modutils-2.4.1-0.ppc.rpm
Olaf, Looks like you were completely right: - fresh 6.4 installation -> crash at first ftp attempt - updated kernel to 2.2.18 -> 300+ MB transferred and counting... Just one final note: the SuSE support DB is a bit messy (and slightly inaccurate) about how to update the system and its configuration files to 2.2.16+ kernel on "old world" Apple machines. I may send you the complete and correct how-to (well, how I did it...) if you want. best regards, and thank you again for your help nicola