Fedora PPC on a Powerbook Lombard

Michael Logdon-Porter the.germanboy at gmail.com
Mon Jan 3 15:55:48 EST 2005


On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 20:32:03 +0000, Paul Nasrat <pauln at truemesh.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 03:33:29PM -0500, Michael Logdon-Porter wrote:
> > I tried an installation of FC3 to replace YDL on my Powerbook this
> > afternoon.  In trying to do an NFS install, via linux askmethod, when
> > it comes time to initialize the network device, it is unable to find
> > the driver.  When selecting the BMAC driver, it seems to find eth0
> > with that driver (on VT 3 it displays "<6>eth0: BMAC+ at
> > 00:50:e4:c5:2d:29"), but still returns me to the "No driver found"
> > dialog.  I have also tried sungem, but it fails as well.  I seem to
> > recall someone else having the same problem a while back, but I can't
> > find a solution via Google.  Any ideas?
> 
> This is an issue I've yet to track down the exact bug for on some Apple
> hardware.
> 
> Would you be up for me doing some debugging by supplying some updated
> boot.iso's for you? I probably won't have time until tomorrow to build the isos.

Up for it, definitely.  I'll be watching for the ISOs -- thanks,

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