OS X on PB2400 |
May, 27, 2002 8:49 AM |
takabumi.kosaka |
I installed OS X 10.1 on 2400. My PB2400's machine condition is with Vimage G3-320MHz/112MB/20GB HHD. HDD Partition 5.9GB/1.9GB/12GB and OS X/OS 9 english/OS 9 Japanese, respectively. Cardbus activeted by removing two resistances(both PCMCIA slot OK as cardbus). I could not install OS X 10.1.3 from its original CD, but 10.0 and upgraded to 10.1. So far, 10.1 is running. L2chach is effective. Firewire2Go, Mathey USB card(PCMCIAs) are OK for use, but still needs to insert after start up. REUDO(Japanese local ?) Wireless card can not be used. Its possible driver at Wireless Driver Homepage (http://wirelessdriver.sourceforge.net/) are not effective for the moment. Once the card is inserted, Kernel panic displayed. I am using AirPort, so I would like to use the card sometime. Sleep is not available but just LCD turns dark(and recovers when touch a mouse). Battery control seems not available so far. That is the current status so far. One thing I would like to express here, thank for the develpment of XPostFacto. If I can, I would like to contribute to further improvement for support of PB2400. |
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RE: OS X on PB2400 |
October, 06, 2002 3:14 AM |
takabumi.kosaka |
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Thanks, tanatamo. I also succeeded to use Wireless PC Card inder 10.2.1. I got AeroLAN PCCARD Driver 1.2 by Asante and Orinoco PC Card and it works with AirPort + Router. Under 10.1.X, I had kernel panics but not with 10.2. |
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RE: OS X on PB2400 |
September, 28, 2002 1:20 AM |
tanatamo |
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my2400c+os10.2+XPostFacto2.2.2+macsense WPE-600 AeroCard V2.0b10Driver+Proxim Skyline802.11b PC Card=working! |
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RE: OS X on PB2400 |
September, 27, 2002 9:23 PM |
takabumi.kosaka |
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One important report missed. X.2 works well on my PB2400, which is great ! |
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RE: OS X on PB2400 |
September, 27, 2002 9:22 PM |
takabumi.kosaka |
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1. Rebooting from 7.6.1 or 8.6 I have onry 9.1 and 10.2 now. So I do not know. I presume we ould need to select start up disk of 7.6 or 8.6 from control panel of OSX, and wonder if "start up disk" can recognize 7.6 or 8.6 as a start up disk. If it does not, you firstly reboot from 9.1 and then reboot from 7.6 or 8.6. 2. Installing 10.2 onto my PB2400/G3-320/112M/20GHD. I use Plextor SCSI CDdrive and still failed to install even with XPF 2.2.2. I picked up HD from the PB and set the HD into FireWire HD box(Oxf911chip) to install 10.2 from my friend's PBG4. Re-installing HD back and Re-installing XPF 2.2.2, starting OS X.2 is successful. With OX.2, my 16bit wireless PC Card has been recognised, but still fails to link to AirPort network. It just gives IP address 169.254..... |
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RE: OS X on PB2400 |
September, 27, 2002 2:59 PM |
OSXGuru |
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You can reboot into previous versions of Mac OS after installing Mac OS X. Although, come to think of it, I have not tried rebooting into anything but Mac OS 9.1. But I think that rebooting into Mac OS 7 or 8 should be possible as well. |
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RE: OS X on PB2400 |
September, 20, 2002 4:21 PM |
mccaig |
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Dear Gurus, I may not be skilled enough to install Jaguar on my 2400/240/80 although I've got a 30G hard drive partitioned into 4.6g with 7.6.1, 8.6 and 9.1 (and a couple paritions) I am a professional writer and am quite fond of 7.6.1 When I need the 8.6 or 9.1 features, I simply use the startup disk control panel and restart. I gather from something in the socumentation that if I install Jaguar I won't be able to switch back to the older OS's. True?Donald McCaig |
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RE: OS X on PB2400 |
September, 20, 2002 4:16 PM |
mccaig |
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Dear Gurus, |
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RE: OS X 10.2 on PB2400 |
September, 02, 2002 9:11 PM |
OSXGuru |
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One problem is that Mac OS X 10.2 isn't working with the 603 processor at this time. I am hoping that this can be fixed, but I have not been able to figure out what exactly is the source of the problem yet. If you have a G3 upgrade in your 2400, then it might work. However, there was a problem with 10.2 and the SCSI bus on the powerbooks until version 2.2.1 of XPostFacto (just released today). |
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RE: OS X 10.2 on PB2400 |
August, 27, 2002 11:55 AM |
takabumi.kosaka |
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Thanks to you, 10.1.3 worked well on my PB2400. But now I would like to install 10.2 onto PB2400. My trials, 1) using XPostFacto2.2, installing from OS 10.2 CD failed during before installation screen. 2) Startig from OS 10.1 CD, replace it with 10.2 CD soon after the reboot by XPF, it is successful to start 10.2 installer. However, it stops at "Welcome to Mac OS X installer" step ... and can not press 'continue' botton. Do you have any suggestion ? (I used HD partion, cleaned by disk first aid, where I can install 10.1.3) After successful instalation of 10.2, I will try to use Wireless PC card with its beta5 driver issued by Wireless Driver homepage (mensioned early in this thread), which only works with on 10.2. |
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RE: OS X on PB2400 |
June, 07, 2002 10:18 PM |
OSXGuru |
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To workaround this problem, you can copy the ApplePMU.kext from the 10.1 CD to your /System/Library/Extensions folder. That should take care of it. The next version of XPostFacto will include an open-source PMU driver that should also take care of the problem. |
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RE: OS X on PB2400 |
June, 06, 2002 10:32 AM |
takabumi.kosaka |
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10.1.5 was installed via software update, and fails to start up, as same case as 10.1.3. |
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RE: OS X on PB2400 |
May, 27, 2002 2:38 PM |
OSXGuru |
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Thanks for the report. The next version of XPostFacto should allow you to install from the 10.1.3 CD. The issue (that I'm aware of) is that the ApplePMU driver in 10.1.3 has problems with the 2400, 3400 and 3500. I can fix that by using the open source version of the driver. (Unfortunately, the current version of the ApplePMU driver is not open source, but an older version is, and it still works). So, unless there is another issue with 10.1.3 that I'm not aware of, the next version of XPostFacto should help there (i.e. version 2.2b8, when it is out). I have been working on power management (i.e. sleep etc.), but have not been successful yet. So it won't get into the next version, but I will keep working on it. I have not tried a wireless card myself--I will put that on my list of things to do. Does the kernel panic mention the wireless driver specifically? It sounds like PCMCIA cards only work if you insert them after startup? That is interesting--I will have to look into that. Thanks again. |
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