sumarise ppc problems

[Colin Watson]

On Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 12:23:29PM -0500, volvoguy wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 10:25:11 +0100, altern <enrike at altern.org> wrote:
> > A - wireless networking : Not working
> > I havent got into this at all. I kind of rememer that there were some
> > emails about it in the list
> 
> Not working for me either (Airport Extreme with a Broadcom chip).

This isn't supported by Linux, sorry, and the specifications necessary
to write a driver have not been released.

> > D - kernel : which one to use for your machine?
> > THere are different kernels (note that i dont know much about this at
> > all so i am not sure about this at all) to be installed i use the
> > default one, however my machine is a G4 and i was thinking which would
> > be the difference is i would be ussing the G4 kernel. Maybe some of the
> > issues iam describing would be solved?. Also how to do this? just
> > install in the sinaptics manager the G4 kernel? do i need to set
> > somewhere that ubuntu uses by default the new kernel?
> 
> I installed the current (2.6.10 ?) kernel from Hoary last night and
> didn't have any problems. Are you thinking of the "power-4" or
> something? I think there are a few kernel options for other PPC
> machines - like IBM's servers.

The power4 kernel is for IBM POWER4 and Apple G5 systems. There is no
specialised G4 kernel, and come to that nothing particularly useful that
could be done to it to distinguish it from earlier powerpc machines
anyway; just use the default powerpc kernel.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                    [cjwatson at canonical.com]