From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <377A65AC.BB9784E1@wanadoo.fr> Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 20:45:00 +0200 From: Martin Costabel MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: USB under LinuxPPC Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: I am picking this 8 weeks old thread up, because I didn't see any update on this story. I have a couple of questions. Main question: What sources are supposed to produce kernels working on B&W G3s? Other form of the same question (this has been asked several times, but I didn't see any answer, which IMHO contradicts somehow the open source spirit): Which sources and which config options were used by the guys who compiled the kernels for B&W G3s? The reason why I am asking is that I am in the process of installing LinuxPPC on a colleague's new G3/300. After getting over all the problems with the buggy installer others are constantly complaining about, we have R5 fully installed and running (no accelerated X so far), but only with the help of an old ADB keyboard. None of the kernels available on the net recognizes the USB keyboard and mouse of this machine! By this I don't mean the problem with French keymaps. The keyboard and mouse just don't give *any* reaction. This starts with the redhat installer where you have to hit some button to say "OK" first. Impossible with this USB keyboard. Hard reboot necessary. Needless to say that it works under MacOS. Under MacOS, you even can use 2 keyboards and mice (ADB and USB) at the same time. So what I would like is to compile my own kernel for this machine in order to try to get the keyboard recognized. In the vger sources, there is a drivers/usb directory, and after some patching of some config.in and defconfig files, it can be compiled in (not by default). Question: Is this USB stuff supposed to work on Macs? I couldn't test it, because the IDE driver in this kernel doesn't see the internal (and only) hard disk of this machine. So it doesn't boot completely, because the root filesystem is absent. I saw a couple of kernel patches at yellowdog's, also for G3 IDE drivers, but those seem to be for older kernel versions and it seems impossible to apply them manually (I tried both 2.2.10 and 2.3.6 from vger). In the official R5 2.2.6 kernel sources, there is a uusb directory containing quite different things compared to the vger drivers/usb stuff. Question again: Is this supposed to work on B&W G3s, and if so, with what patches and config options? Is the IDE driver there supposed to work on these machines? Any help appreciated. -- Martin [[ This message was sent via the linuxppc-dev mailing list. Replies are ]] [[ not forced back to the list, so be sure to Cc linuxppc-dev if your ]] [[ reply is of general interest. Please check http://lists.linuxppc.org/ ]] [[ and http://www.linuxppc.org/ for useful information before posting. ]]