Guest dime0000 Posted July 29, 2004 Report Share Posted July 29, 2004 Hello- I have installed Mandrake Linux 9.1 on a Macintosh Wallstreet Powerbook. I can get into the KDE, but i have noticed that neither my CD-Rom, or ethernet device is working.. I'm sure other things are not working right as well, but those are the most important right now. In searching through the net, i can't find a definitive source for help on this topic. Has anyone had success with this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted July 29, 2004 Report Share Posted July 29, 2004 unfortunately we don't have a large Mac userbase on this board, especially for the "OldWorld" macs. You may want to look into yellow dog linux as it seems to have the best Mac support. Hopefully someone will stop in and provide some help, but many mac questions in the past have gone unanswered so I dunno what your luck may be. perhaps you could post any information regarding these devices that may show up in the Mandrake Control Center under Hardware? That might give some direction so that we know what exactly the hardware is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dime0000 Posted July 30, 2004 Report Share Posted July 30, 2004 ya - i've heard of that YellowDog . maybe i'll try that if i dont hear an answer about these: the hardware listed in the 'Unknown/Others' area is as followed: MPC106 [Grackle] Heathrow Mac I/O Controller Heathrow Mac I/O Controller Unknown/Others PCI1131 Dual Socket PCI Card Bus Controller PCI1131 Dual Socket PCI Card Bus Controller Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dime0000 Posted July 30, 2004 Report Share Posted July 30, 2004 solved! seriously.. i decided to try out the vmlinux-2.4.21-0.13mdk kernel, and all of a sudden, i got sound, CD-ROM, and ethernet! i'm typing from my old Powerbook right now. this rocks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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