Subject: Re: any successful Pismo installs?
From: Ken Scott (ken@optikos.net)
Date: Wed Jun 21 2000 - 13:59:03 MDT
On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Charles Stevenson wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, you wrote:
> > Wondering how many folks have successfully gotten a Pismo PB to run. I was
> > reading through the report at http://modctek.com/linux_report.htm and noticed
> > that mouse support still wasn't working. Anyone else have news of this?
>
> I installed on one just fine with Ben's kernel. kbdconfig and mouseconfig rely
> on /proc/bus/usb? (proc usb) for auto probing which was not compiled into his
> kernel. To configure the mouse with mouseconfig pass it '--noprobe' as
> arguments.
>
> Ben's page is:
>
> http://ppclinux.apple.com/~benh/
>
> > matt
>
> You'll need to install yaboot and use it to boot the cdrom since the kernel on
> the cdrom won't fly on the Pismo.
>
Once the initial installation is done, how simple is building my own
kernel on the box? Just a matter of grabbing the latest .tar.gz from
ftp.kernel.org and compiling?
Ken
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