Re: YDL 2.0 on a PowerBook 2400


Subject: Re: YDL 2.0 on a PowerBook 2400
From: Timothy A. Seufert (tas@mindspring.com)
Date: Sun Sep 16 2001 - 01:02:07 MDT


At 9:41 PM -0700 4/15/01, Rob wrote:
>Hi, I'm trying to configure YDL 2.0 on my 2400 (80M/4G). I know this is an
>'unsupported' installation but it's supposed to work. The install went OK
>with an external SCSI CD-ROM, but it doesn't seem to have loaded any support
>for the PCMCIA slots. Since there's no built-in network card, I need the
>PCMCIA slots activated.

I have a 2400 too, and have been dealing with some of the same problems.

>So a few questions:
>
>1- What do I have to do to enable the slots? cardinfo doesn't seem to be
>installed. I tried installing the PCMCIA package, but it didn't do anything
>and I don't know how to build it if that's what is required.

I got partial functionality by building a custom 2.4 kernel. I say
partial because only CardBus cards work, not plain PCMCIA. I've been
told there are fixes for PCMCIA in some 2.4 kernel sources out there
and when I get a chance I plan to play with that and see what I can
get running.

(Note: unmodified 2400s usually cannot use CardBus cards period, I
had to do a hardware hack to mine to allow them to be inserted
without crashing/hanging the computer.)

You should probably stick with 2.2. I'm pretty sure you should be
able to get it working without compiling a new kernel. The cardinfo
program may not be installed, but it's not necessary -- try the
cardctl command line tool (cardctl status, cardctl ident, so on and
so forth).

>2- The Ethernet card is an old Kingston 10Mb card. Do I need any special
>drivers for it?

See:

http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ftp/SUPPORTED.CARDS

for a list of supported cards and the drivers associated with them.
Very handy because it also lists whether the driver works on PPC or
not. It looks like yours is probably supported.

>3- The YDL X installation program recognized the 2400's touch pad and let me
>use it as the mouse button as well. I need this because the touch pad button
>is completely worn and doesn't work anymore at all. How can I enable this
>feature? Also, what are the shortcuts for center and right mouse?

The "trackpad" program is your friend. You must be root to run it
because by default the /dev/adb device does not allow non-superusers
to write to it.

By default, F11 and F12 should be the center and right mouse button.

>4- How much memory does MySQL/Apache/Postgres need to run? Can I fit
>MySQL/PHP/Apache in the 80M which I have? Postgres (i assume not, but would
>like to know if it might work)?

I would guess Apache by itself would not be a problem so long as you
aren't running X11. But heck, the worst you can do is try it and see
what happens.

-- 
Tim Seufert



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