Fwd: Couple of questions about UbuntuPPC

[Pieterjan Lansbergen]

Il giorno gio, 30-09-2004 alle 21:32 +0200, king arthur ha scritto:
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>         Da: Carlos Paramio <carlos.paramio at hispalinux.es>
>         Data: 30 settembre 2004 19:06:25 CET
>         A: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
>         Oggetto: Re: Couple of questions about UbuntuPPC
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>         El Jueves, 30 de Septiembre de 2004 18:07, pieterjan escribió:
>                 Ethernet connection is OK however, I still can't get
>                 Airport to
>                 connect. Does anybody succeed and if yes, how?
>                 Is WEP encryption supported with Airport networking or
>                 should I turn it
>                 off? (I tried, no luck)
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>         Yes, it's supported, but I didn't find any options on GUI
>         interface for it. 
>         You must add a line on /etc/network/interfaces, like this:
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>         wireless_key 1237861238
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>         near your iface eth1 entries.

No luck with Airport inteface so far. Tried to switch-off WEP but this
is what I get when restarting:
root at imac:/home/arthur # /etc/init.d/networking restart
 * Setting up IP spoofing protection...
[ ok ]
 * Reconfiguring network interfaces...
Ignoring unknown interface eth0=eth0.
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.1rc14
Copyright 2004 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP

sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
Listening on LPF/eth1/00:30:65:20:fd:a8
Sending on   LPF/eth1/00:30:65:20:fd:a8
Sending on   Socket/fallback
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.1rc14
Copyright 2004 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP

sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
Listening on LPF/eth1/00:30:65:20:fd:a8
Sending on   LPF/eth1/00:30:65:20:fd:a8
Sending on   Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 17
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 15

root at imac:/home/arthur #


>         
>                 Flash plugin for Firefox. Downloaded but doesn't work.
>                 Do I need to
>                 compile the source code?
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>         You can install swf-player package. I don't remember if it's
>         on main, 
>         restricted or universe. But it works for me.

That works great!
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>                 Furthermore, I like some kind of support for the
>                 mouse. Standard works
>                 but my two button + scrollwheel macally mouse doesnt't
>                 work at all.
>                 (actually, it works on my intell Ubutntu install)
>                 Any hacks available  for the xserver and the scroll
>                 mouse?
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>         What problems do you have with it?
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It doesn't detect device at all. No moving, no clicking

>                 Last, but not least: Finally, I can no play mp3's but
>                 not a normal
>                 audio CD. Any modules missing?
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>         I didn't test it.
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>                 Same for Totem. I have sound but no video output.
>                 Do I need codecs for playing AVI's and Mpegs? are they
>                 available for
>                 PPC?
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>         Maybe totem-xine?

Tried totem-xine.
Now I got video but no audio :-)
BTW in the process of installing the above, aptitude removed totem-
gs.streamer
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Not perfect yet, but whe are improving.. :-)

Thanks
Pieter
NOTE: this is sent with Evolution-Ubuntu-PPC :-)