From owner-freebsd-ppc Thu Mar 20 6: 6: 6 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F416E37B404; Thu, 20 Mar 2003 06:06:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net (swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.123]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C3B243F75; Thu, 20 Mar 2003 06:06:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from welchsm@earthlink.net) Received: from thecount.psp.pas.earthlink.net ([207.217.78.22]) by swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18w0gE-0002n1-00; Thu, 20 Mar 2003 06:06:02 -0800 Received: from [207.217.78.201] by EarthlinkWAM via HTTP; Thu Mar 20 06:06:02 PST 2003 Message-ID: <6583963.1048169162421.JavaMail.nobody@thecount.psp.pas.earthlink.net> Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 06:06:01 -0600 (GMT) From: Sean Welch Reply-To: Sean_Welch@alum.wofford.org To: Peter Grehan Subject: Re: Re: Further testing (netbooted) Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Earthlink Web Access Mail version 3.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Okay -- I'll take a look when I can at that code. Maybe I can help track down the port building issue, too. (Recall it was a complaint that the system was too old... exact message in my first testing note in the "what didn't work" section) Sean -------Original Message------- From: Peter Grehan Sent: 03/19/03 10:52 PM To: Sean_Welch@alum.wofford.org Subject: Re: Further testing (netbooted) > > Hi Sean, > I'm holding off on installing FreeBSD on the iBook disk > because I'd like to be able to update the code directly > from the install -- is there a way for me to track the > source effectively without the use of cvsup? Alternatively, > is it worth my while to wait just a bit longer because > building ports may be possible soon? Cvsup is pretty much required. I haven't tried out the ports building stuff - it might be simple to fix. > I was also curious to know if I might be able to do some > research to help beef up the serial driver in an attempt > to get the modem working? I've not tried the serial driver. I think that on the iBook, one of the ports is connected directly to the modem. If it doesn't work, then the most likely cause is that the Macio ASIC cell that contains the modem hasn't been enabled. This is quite messy, and needs some higher level work to allow the drivers to call up to the bus parent to enable themselves. It's needed for the Wi-Fi driver, and also for the ATA drivers for sleep/unsleep, if that is ever supported. The best place to look is the Linux code, and then NetBSD/OpenBSD code. later, Peter. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ppc" in the body of the message