powerbook kanga |
August, 15, 2002 10:10 AM |
skramer |
Ryan, Have been trying to install osx on the kanga. I have 2 partitions (1 1.5 gig sector with os 9.1) and the other (2.5 gig sector for osx) Os x starts to install and then stops after a while and says file not found. Any ideas? Steve Kramer NWOU member |
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RE: powerbook kanga |
September, 02, 2002 10:57 PM |
OSXGuru |
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It's not entirely clear to me what part of connecting to the Internet works and what part doesn't work. I take it that you get part way through a connection, but it is not ultimately successful? I really must try it myself sometime and see. I do want to look at the sound volume issue. Presumably there is a way to make that work. What I would probably try first is checking to see whether sound is supported in NetBSD on this hardware, and take a look at the code involved. |
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RE: powerbook kanga |
August, 30, 2002 4:46 PM |
skramer |
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Ryan, talked to MCE and they still offer the service for $99 . Bought this computer a year ago from a gu - so it might have been converted. Separately, I have found that although OS X.2 sees both the usb and the modem card and the modem will connect to the internet - something is keeping it from working. modem works fine on OS9. So I think your eralier remarks are true. So this leads me to ask what the problem could be in OS X if the modem card appears to be working fine - is this something that can be fixed by XPF. also what about the speaker volume issue. thanks again, this is a truly magnificent piece of software you have written |
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RE: powerbook kanga |
August, 27, 2002 10:58 PM |
OSXGuru |
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Hey, that's great news if PC cards are working now. Apparently Kanga has a CardBus chipset, but the physical connection needs some tweaking to take CardBus cards. At least that's how it was explained to me at one point. And mce does have a conversion service. |
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RE: powerbook kanga |
August, 27, 2002 2:05 PM |
skramer |
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from what I understand the kanga doesn't have cardbus. is this right? didn't mce or somebody have cardbus converstion kit ? steve |
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RE: powerbook kanga |
August, 27, 2002 2:02 PM |
skramer |
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Ryan, 10.2 works perfect for me. Pc cards work fine. I have both a modem and a compact flash running. not flaky at all kanga has 160 meg of ram and 10 gig drive |
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RE: powerbook kanga |
August, 26, 2002 8:27 PM |
OSXGuru |
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Battery level is another of the limitations--basically, none of the power management stuff is working at this time. Also, PC Cards are not working, but some people have been able to get CardBus cards to work. The SCSI bus isn't working (it stopped working around 10.1.3 or so--I actually hadn't noticed, but someone pointed it out). I expect to figure this one out reasonably soon. I think that's about it. My Kanga is a little flaky about startup--sometimes I need to reboot into Mac OS 9 before it will boot into Mac OS X again. And sometimes I have to hold down the option key or eject a CD to get it to boot in Mac OS 9. But it mostly works. |
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RE: powerbook kanga |
August, 26, 2002 4:07 PM |
skramer |
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Ryan, My Kanga is working perfectly with Jaguar. Ethernet works, too. However, I spent a lot of time and effort to get Jaguar to install on my machine. Basically, had to do Jaguar from new disk and trash existing 10.1. Besides the screwy startup screen of the mac with a reverse of the swirl the machine behaves exactly like my lombard. What are the limitations that you talk about in your latest letter - besides sleep mode. Also curiously Jaguar figured my machine as a desktop, the battery level indicator is not installed. |
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RE: powerbook kanga |
August, 19, 2002 1:29 PM |
OSXGuru |
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Are you using XPostFacto 2.2b15 or 2.2b16 to install Mac OS X 10.0? There is a problem with that combination (it tries to copy a file that wasn't on the 10.0 CD). Version 2.2b17 of XPostFacto should fix this, or you can try version 2.2b14 instead (the problem was introduced in 2.2b15). |
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