2.2.17pre9-ben1 and airport

Hi, I have an iBook SE with an airport card, so naturally I was quite
excited at the prospect of being able to use 32bit color (finally!) under
Linux, and the AirPort card as well. So, I downloaded the source from
ppclinux.apple.com/~benh, and built a new kernel. First of all, the mach64
stuff seems to work fine with Xpmac, but the XF68_FBDev that's installed on
my Yellow Dog 1.2 machine just puts a weird line on the screen. Oh well, no
biggie, since Xpmac is working. I haven't tried XF4 yet, either. Now, on to
the problems...
1.) The trackpad won't work at all anymore, but external USB mice work fine.
I did make the prerequisite changes in /dev.
2.) When I try to insmod airport.o network_name=home it claims that printk
and isa_io_base are unresolved symbols.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Robbie Thompson


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At 22:48 07.07.00, Robert Thompson wrote:

Hi, I have an iBook SE with an airport card, so naturally I was quite
excited at the prospect of being able to use 32bit color (finally!) under
Linux, and the AirPort card as well. So, I downloaded the source from
ppclinux.apple.com/~benh, and built a new kernel. First of all, the mach64
stuff seems to work fine with Xpmac, but the XF68_FBDev that's installed on
my Yellow Dog 1.2 machine just puts a weird line on the screen. Oh well, no
biggie, since Xpmac is working. I haven't tried XF4 yet, either. Now, on to
the problems...
1.) The trackpad won't work at all anymore, but external USB mice work fine.
I did make the prerequisite changes in /dev.

Did you change any config options from Ben's default in .config? Please
make sure you enabled the options described at the top
of  <http://homepages.munich.netsurf.de/Franz.Sirl/inputppc.html>.

Franz.


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2.) When I try to insmod airport.o network_name=home it claims that printk
and isa_io_base are unresolved symbols.

Did you enable the module versionning option in the kernel config ? This
may cause problems with the airport module.


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On Fri, 07 Jul 2000, Franz Sirl wrote:

Did you change any config options from Ben's default in .config? Please
make sure you enabled the options described at the top
of  <http://homepages.munich.netsurf.de/Franz.Sirl/inputppc.html>.

Hmmm... well, I have all those options enabled, but it didn't help any. dmesg
shows that the trackpad is found and initialized, etc, but it just doesn't
work! Xpmac doesn't use it, and I tried numerous gpm lines trying to get it to
work, to no avail. dmesg reports that it's mouse3, so I even tried
gpm -m /dev/input/mouse3 -t imps2: results in no function
gpm -m /dev/input/mouse3 -t bm: results in no function
gpm -m /dev/mouse -t imps2: external USB trackball works great, but still no
trackpad
etc, etc. Yes, I did kill each gpm process before testing the next
one... Since I do own a USB trackball, and prefer using it (two buttons and
all, you know) this isn't a showstopper for me, but it is kind of annoying...

Finally, on another topic (while I'm writing): I feel kinda guilty asking about
all this, since I'm not contributing code (my C skills are small and my
assembly and hardware skills are non-existent), but... I was wondering about
power management and sound. Any status updates on those?

Thanks,
Robbie Thompson
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Robert Thompson wrote:

<snip>
Hmmm... well, I have all those options enabled, but it didn't help any. dmesg
shows that the trackpad is found and initialized, etc, but it just doesn't
work! Xpmac doesn't use it, and I tried numerous gpm lines trying to get it to
work, to no avail. dmesg reports that it's mouse3, so I even tried
gpm -m /dev/input/mouse3 -t imps2: results in no function
gpm -m /dev/input/mouse3 -t bm: results in no function
gpm -m /dev/mouse -t imps2: external USB trackball works great, but still no
trackpad

<snip>
Assuming that you have not changed gpm's defaults, and that you have linked both
/dev/input/mouse and /dev/input/usbmouse to /dev/mouse, all you should need to do
is "gpm -t imps2", and that should allow gpm to take input from both your external
usb mouse and the trackpad.  If you have X use /dev/mouse, then it should also
beable to take input from both sources (it works for my Pismo).

HTH
--Nelson Abramson


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