Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Performa 6300 Success and Weird Colors

[Tobias N. <tob...@t-...>]

Am 01.03.2006 um 07:42 schrieb Raylynn Knight:

> On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 18:46 -0500, Damon Tarry wrote:
>> I got Sarge to install on my Performa 6300, but ethernet didn't work.
>> I am using an internal ethernet card, but I am not sure what interface
>> it uses.  Is there some other driver or piece of software I have to
>> install to get ethernet working?  Ethernet does work in Mac OS just
>> fine, but not in Debian.  But, despite the lack of an Internet
>> connection, I decided I wanted to install GNOME anyway.  So I
>> downloaded it and all dependencies on my Mac OS X computer, tarred
>> them, and download them in Mac OS on my 6300.  I rebooted into Linux,
>> and used HFSUtils to copy the files over.  I installed and started X,
>> and GNOME worked but all the colors were off.  Is there some method to
>> fix the colors in X?
>>
> Is your internal card in the CommSlot or PDS Slot?  Can you email me  
> the
> output of the dmesg command?  Currently most 8390 based cards and the
> SMC CommSlot cards are supported.  I've been working on getting the
> CS8900 and Sonic drivers ported from the m68k Mac port, but my time is
> very limited.

I recently was successful in patching the CS8900 driver to work with my  
Focus EtherLAN card for the internal NuBus expansion slot of the  
PowerBook 1400.
The driver is working perfectly.
I already wanted to tell you (Raylynn) of this as you feel responsible  
for the NuBus ethernet drivers but as there is probably no one except  
me who can use my patched driver I haven't done it yet.
I also had to patch the 8390 driver because it identified my card to be  
8390 based. In fact the 8390 driver doesn't do a real probe and  
therefore will identify most cards as 8390 based. What's even worse is  
that the driver registers an ethX and doesn't unregister it when it  
fails.


> With the output of dmesg I should be able to identify
> your card and let you know if it should be supported.
>
> For those wanting a supported card there are a number of Farallon and
> Asante cards listed now on ebay (Buy it Now) for less than $10 (some as
> low as $3) that are supported by the current kernel.
>
> Ray
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