Missing packages on debian iBook G4 powerPC (no wireless drivers)
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Missing packages on debian iBook G4 powerPC (no wireless drivers)
Hello, lately, I've been having an issue when my iBook G4 didn't recognise my Airport Extreme card during a netinstall of debian and ended up not installing basic packages like gedit, Libre Office, and synaptic. Also any ram I inserted was not recognized. Can anyone help me with the following problems:
No wireless card drivers
missing packages
ram not recognized
Last edited by windows50plinux50p; 05-15-2015 at 04:32 PM.
Not a net install cd how to.
But close for what you are trying to do.
Probably easier to do the net install over a land line though.
Then download and enable wireless then from there.
If the card wasn't functional during the installation and you used a netinstall, your system will be very basic indeed and lacking most of the functionality that can be expected from a Debian system.
You could add the "non-free" & "contrib" components to the repository lines in /etc/apt/sources.list and download the non-free firmware (if you have a wired connection available) or you could install the .deb package for the firmware by downloading it on another computer & transferring the package over via USB stick (install using it using gdebi or `dpkg -i <name of .deb>`) and then install all the missing packages manually or you could simply install again using one of the unofficial ISO images that already include the non-free firmware your card requires: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/un...ding-firmware/
I don't know about your RAM issues though -- are you sure the chip is functional?
If you are using a 32-bit system, it will not recognise RAM above 4GiB anyway; you should install a 64-bit operating system if your machine can make use of it and RAM is not restricted (ie, more than 1-2GiB).
Last edited by Head_on_a_Stick; 05-18-2015 at 02:49 AM.
Reason: clarification
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