August 2001 - openSUSE PPC - openSUSE Mailing Lists

New install
by Alain Barthelemy 23 Aug '01

23 Aug '01

Bonjour, First I am not a fan of iMac & Co but it is the only thing I have at work and I installed an efficient O.S. (for network applications, not for games and graphical apps of courses). I just installed SuSE 7.1 on a iMac (blue transparent? with CDwriter). Installation went very smoothly, thanks SuSE I have just a small problem: unsufficient Mac keyboard. I can't use the <backspace> key. When I hit it, it acts as <del>. How can I solve the problem? The same with the other keys: <home>, <Page Up>, <Page Down>, <end> Just for info, I had some problem to install my network card. The install CD detected it OK and installed tge right kernel modile (gcat something). Problem: I could not configure the ehernet interface with Yast1 or Yast2. I did it then the shortest way: # ifconfig eth0 <my_ip_addresse> netmask 255.255.255.0 up # route add default gw <my_router_address> ... and it worked immediately. Thus, the console-way is often the shortest. Thanks -- Alain Barthélemy Section de Biosécurité et Biotechnologie Institut de Santé Publique R. Juliette Wytsman, 14 B-1050 Bruxelles

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sound on G3 whith linux-benh
by Aurélien Sergent 23 Aug '01

23 Aug '01

hi I 'm working on a PPC G3 beige using the radeon graphic card... so I configured bootX to use the linux-benh kernel to boot the linux 7.1 ppc. it works find except the fact that I can't have any sound (can't find any module at boot time) I've tried aslaconf, yast2... no way do you know if there is a solution? thx AS

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help with ppp!!!
by X.X. 22 Aug '01

22 Aug '01

i'm trying to configure ppp with suse 7.1 ppc but it seems not working in any way i use a isdn terminal adapter (zyxel omni.net lcd) connected via serial port to a wallstreet powerbook, i tried with yast but also after resolving the "cannot locate module char-major-108" it doesn't work kppp tells kppp: interface is down after starting pppd and wvdial disconnects after few seconds without giving any error pls help! leonardo

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kmail kde 2.2 crashes
by Sven Goethel 21 Aug '01

21 Aug '01

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 i have suse linux ppc 7.1: Linux charelle 2.4.7 #2 Wed Aug 1 11:59:05 CEST 2001 ppc unknown with all necessary updates installed exec kmail gives me: kmail: error while loading shared libraries: /opt/kde2//lib/libkdecore.so.3: R_PPC_REL14 relocation at 0x00a44788 out of range any ideas ? cheers, sven - -- mailto:sgoethel@jausoft.com www : http://www.jausoft.com ; pgp: http://www.jausoft.com/gpg/ voice : +49-521-2399440 ; fax : +49-521-2399442 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7emOxHdOA30NoFAARAo+2AJ4iQuNT8pNRAS1ChN1OIDW5aPCLkwCdHZ0z d+dAqYfNsywUa2GCLhd9Ric= =8p8E -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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RPM --rebuild samba-2.2.0a-0.src.rpm
by Michael Andersson 21 Aug '01

21 Aug '01

Hi! I have 7.1 installed and is using Samba (standard 2.07). I want to join W2K-computers to the domain but for that I need a newer version of Samba to work. I´ve seen a posting from Olaf saying that I can do a rpm --rebuild of the i386-package. I tried this but bumped into some problems along the way. 1. Automake was missing. Installed it. 2. Libtool was missing. Installed it. After doing that I got much further and almost all the way (I think). The last lines are: checking for working mmap... yes checking for ftruncate needs root... no checking for fcntl locking... yes checking for broken (glibc2.1/x86) 64 bit fcntl locking... no checking for 64 bit fcntl locking... yes checking for a crypt that needs truncated salt... no checking for broken nisplus include files... yes checking whether to use smbwrapper... no checking whether to use AFS... no checking whether to use DFS auth... no checking whether to use Kerberos IV... no checking whether to use Kerberos 5... no checking whether to use AUTOMOUNT... yes checking whether to use SMBMOUNT... yes checking whether to use PAM password database... yes checking whether to use NISPLUS password database... no checking whether to use NISPLUS_HOME... no checking whether to use SSL... no checking whether to use syslog logging... no checking whether to use profiling... yes checking whether to support netatalk... no checking whether to support disk-quotas... yes checking whether to support utmp accounting... no checking whether to support Microsoft Dfs... yes checking whether to support the experimantal Samba vfs... yes checking how to get filesystem space usage checking statvfs64 function (SVR4)... no checking statvfs function (SVR4)... no checking for 3-argument statfs function (DEC OSF/1)... no checking for two-argument statfs with statfs.bsize member (AIX, 4.3BSD)... no checking for four-argument statfs (AIX-3.2.5, SVR3)... no checking for two-argument statfs with statfs.fsize member (4.4BSD and NetBSD)... no checking for two-argument statfs with struct fs_data (Ultrix)... no checking checking if large file support can be enabled... yes checking whether to support ACLs... no checking configure summary configure: error: summary failure. Aborting config Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.61910 (%build) Does anybody have an idea on what is wrong? BR Micke

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SuSE PPC 7.1 on Powebook G4 Titanium ?
by François G. Meyer 21 Aug '01

21 Aug '01

I am about to purchase a Powerbook G4 Titanium, and would like to know if I can install SuSE PPC 7.1 "out of the box" ? 1) Do I need a newer kernel than the one provided on the CD ? 2) Is the video card supported ? 3) Does it allow to use 1152 x 768 pixels in 32 bit mode ? I thank you very much, and look forward to hearing from you. François.

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Fw: [suse-ppc] Problem installing on IBM 43P-140
by azman 21 Aug '01

21 Aug '01

Thanks Sree, but I still ahve problem. What I did: 1) ra"wrote" the zimage to a floppy.. 2) boot /root=/dev/fd0..... like your instr, but the 43P did not read from the floppy (even tho in Sys Startup i set it so). 3) then I did this ********************************************************************************* memory keyboard network scsi speaker ok 0 > setenv real-base c00000 ok 0 > setenv load-base 200000 ok 0 > boot floppy:,\zimage root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1 ramdisk_size=128000 chrpboot starting: loaded at 0x400000 gunzipping (0x10000 <- 0x4062c8:0x4cba74)...done 1959648 bytes start address = 0x10000 checking display...copying OF device tree....................................... ...done returning 00010000 from prom_init IBM,7043-140: reprogramming the memory controller. vector: 200 at pc = c000e47c, lr = c000e484, msr = c1030, sp = c01732c8 [c017321 8] current = c0171460, pid = 0, comm = swapper mon> ********************************************************************************* I'm stuck here now. Doesnt look like its asking for a ramdisk does it? TIA, azman ----- Original Message ----- From: rsreelat(a)in.ibm.com To: Azman Salleh Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 7:52 PM Subject: Re: [suse-ppc] Problem installing on IBM 43P-140 Try this. Change in the System Startup setting to make the floppy as first bootable drive on the system. Use raw- write to write the zimage to the boot disk. Then type boot /root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1 ramdisk_size=128000. at the open firmware prompt. Sreelatha I have prepared the following floppies: 1) Boot disk - I formatted 1.44MB floppy from my Win98 PC, then copied ftp.suse.com's zImage.140.(renamed as zimage)to it. 2) ramdisk - I used rawrite to write into 2nd floppy from ftp.suse.com's ramdisk.image.deflt.gz I updated 43P firmware to be TIG01150 successfully. From the 0> prompt, I issued boot floppy:,\zimage root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1 ramdisk_size=128000 I got back the 0> prompt; and the 43P's floppy show that it's reading the boot disk. But nothing else came out even after 1/2 hour. THe floppy drive kept reading. I tried again without success. THis time, I preceded boot floppy with "setenv real-base c00000" and "setenv load-base 20000". I never got the phase where it asks for the RAMDISK. pls help. thanks, azman

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Problem installing on IBM 43P-140
by Azman Salleh 20 Aug '01

20 Aug '01

I have prepared the following floppies: 1) Boot disk - I formatted 1.44MB floppy from my Win98 PC, then copied ftp.suse.com's zImage.140.(renamed as zimage)to it. 2) ramdisk - I used rawrite to write into 2nd floppy from ftp.suse.com's ramdisk.image.deflt.gz I updated 43P firmware to be TIG01150 successfully. >From the 0> prompt, I issued boot floppy:,\zimage root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1 ramdisk_size=128000 I got back the 0> prompt; and the 43P's floppy show that it's reading the boot disk. But nothing else came out even after 1/2 hour. THe floppy drive kept reading. I tried again without success. THis time, I preceded boot floppy with "setenv real-base c00000" and "setenv load-base 20000". I never got the phase where it asks for the RAMDISK. pls help. thanks, azman

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Installing suseppc7.1 on harddisk connected to acard 6260m
by Stephan Ruehle 18 Aug '01

18 Aug '01

Hi, is there anyone out there, who can help me installing suseppc 7.1 on my machine? Umax S900 G4 Upgrade 450mhz Acard Controller 6260M harddisk 1. IDE channel Mater If i boot to Linux installer (Old World, i use Bootx), ther was no harddisk found (all partitions have benn made previosly under MacOS). Is there a easyer way to get Linux installed than install it first on scsi harddisk, than compile the Kernel, reboot, copy all to the Partitions on Ide harddisk, change fstab, .... . Thank you for your help Stephan

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usb modem on ppoa
by Aurélien Sergent 17 Aug '01

17 Aug '01

Hi everybody I d like to know if it is possible to connect on ppoA (not ppoE) whith an usb adsl modem (alcatel speed touch), i've seen that kernel 2.2.18 and 2.4.2 support usb but i don' t know if : 1/ they support hot plugging 2/ the driver for linux provided by alcatel and J. verrept will work on a linux-ppc box does anyone know that? thx a lot aurélien

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