New to Linux, Hardware and Networking issues

Steel_J · 08-21-2006, 02:00 PM

Here is a step by step, hands on on the command line. It will make you understand a lot.

http://pratyeka.org/rfcomm/

Steel_J · 08-21-2006, 02:02 PM

by the way...to meet the first part of the guide...Your Suse kernel already as bluetooth compiled so you can go on to step 1.

Damian.Star · 08-24-2006, 05:50 PM

Cool, thanks all

Damian.Star · 08-26-2006, 07:56 AM

I have another problem

Having recently bought my young daughter an Apple Mac PPC G3, I would like to run Linux on it, after searching around, I've been told the best idea is to put SuSE Liux PPC 7.1 on there, (SuSE because that's what I'm used to).

Is this ok? Accodring to the supported hardware list, I should be able to run SuSE 10.1 on there, which would be much more preferable.

Any suggestions would be most helpful.

kirtimaan_bkn · 08-26-2006, 09:12 PM

Damian.Star,

You can try Ubuntu. They have a version for Mac.

http://www.ubuntu.com/download

Select the location nearest to you and then, download the ISO file for powerpc.

Thanks, Kirtimaan

Damian.Star · 08-30-2006, 11:42 AM

ok, so far so good, but before I sling my pc outta the window....

I've got my phone paired, and aparently connected to rfcomm0:

damianstar@server:~> rfcomm connect 0 08:00:28:F5:B8:C3
Connected /dev/rfcomm0 to 08:00:28:F5:B8:C3 on channel 1
Press CTRL-C for hangup

But I'm buggered if I know what to do with it! kmobiletools still don't see it "An error occurred while initialising the phone device".

bleedin nightmare!!