Fedora PPC on a Powerbook Lombard

Paul Nasrat pauln at truemesh.com
Mon Jan 3 20:32:03 UTC 2005


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.

Paul




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