Using the following CD Image to boot: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/releases/build/1.2/gentoo-ppc-1.2-r1.iso Currently have a new Dual 1ghz Mac. It has a (what I thought was) standard integrated gigabit ethernet port. When booting off the Gentoo/PPC 1.2 CD, no network device is detected, therefore I'm not able to install Gentoo. I am unsure how to obtain more hardware information on the chip for the network on the logic board being used, but if there's anything you can ask me to do to obtain information on the hardware, please let me know.
what would be be very helpful here is the output of cat /proc/pci for a start. AFAIK it _should_ be a sungem chipset, but i have yet to personally work on a new dual G4. If you can get this information it will be a start for us to figure out why it is not working. Thanks
Created attachment 5012 [details] Contents of: "cat /proc/pci" /proc/pci requested, so here it is. Thanks for the help! Again, the system is: FSB133 Logic Board for a new Dual G4 1gHz tower, everything's standard. the 10/100/1000 onboard ethernet has -not- been detected by the standard PPC 1.2 boot cd.
Yep you are right. I will investigate this further for you, but there is definately kernel support missing for some components, not sure on the status of them to date. I will keep you informed when there is something for you to test, thanks
Thanks much. :) Is there anything I can do to further assist?
Nothing much aside from wait for kernel support it seems :(
is this powermac one of the new 'mirrored drive doors' machines with ddr ram?
Correct, it is a new G4 with the "mirrored doors" drive bays using DDR SDRAM. It's got a full 133/266FSB with the dual 1ghz chips instead of the 100MHZ fsb that the slightly older G4 dual 867mhz model has. I don't know if there's a kernel out there that has support for whatever new network chipset Apple decided to use... So I'm playing the waiting game, and happily plodding along with OS X at the moment while I try to attempt to start to learn how kernel drivers are written when giving zero specs from a manufacturer. :)
Just an additional note: irc.freenode.net #Gentoo-PPC, Gerk sent me a link to some PPC 1.4rc1 iso images, (Live CD, Smaller, smallest) those also did not detect it, but it was worth the try. (Thanks Mark anyway!)
check out http://lists.gentoo.org/pipermail/gentooppc-dev/2002-July/000191.html ... the xserve and mdd macs share a lot of hardware. perhaps Joe McMahon could help? until kernel support comes, you could always install a pci network card.
Can you try the test kernel at http://gentoo.org/~gerk/ ? it should have support for Xserver (in theory) now
Will do, I'll let you know.
any results yet?
Well, with the latest experimental live cd for 1.4 I'm unable to check if the network works due to the display not showing up ... or a kernel panic depending on whether I choose safe or regular startups... If you'd like me to replace the kernel on a 1.2 cd, I may need a bit of hand holding. While I know how to recompile a kernel, I don't have a linux environment to work with, and I have OS X 10.2 using GCC3.1. Once I recompile, how do I rebuild an iso and keep it bootable, for example? Knowing this, I would love to test out another kernel on the 1.2 cd.
do you have a working configuration yet? If so can you test the latest test kernel at http://ppckernel.org/kernel.php?id=29 If you don't have a working setup, its not a super simple thing to build a new cd and I guess you would be better off to wait.
Unfortunately I have no working linux setup. With the 1.2 live cd I am unable to get network access to install the rest of Gentoo. With the 1.4rc1 live cd I have the same problem. With the 1.4rc2 cds, the bug 12931 that describes the screen blacking out with my Radeon 9000 blocks me from installing. With YellowDogLinux 2.3 there is no support for my ATA100 bus. I -did- just purchase another hard drive, I believe I can put that on the ATA66 bus and install. I will attempt that and get back to you. I don't think I'll have network access after that, but I can set an HFS partition up and transfer between OS X and Linux through that... So ya, I'll get back to you. :)
Ok, it took me a while... I have a working YellowDogLinux 2.3 installed right now. So, I know how to grab a source tree and compile it... How to I make my own gentoo bootable iso so i can test it out? Or do I just test the gentoo sources with yellow dog and let you all know whether the network (and the associated bug having to do with the Radeon 9000 problem) works? Or will I get told how to make a gentoo bootable iso? :)
Mmm ... Most recent 1.4 CD network drivers work... Yay sungem! (Used "Live-Safe", was not able to test "Live") 2/23/02
Network works, bug's been taken care of as of the cvs 2/23 live cd .iso.bz2. Thank you!
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