I tried it on my 7100/80. No go, sadly. It has the original ROM and needs the v1.1.1 enabler. The Easter Egg dance produces only the regular System 7.5 breakout egg.
What was your partition layout when you started the OSX install? This failure would be consistent with attempting to installl OSX via XPF on a partition on the IDE drive that's beyond the first 8GB. There's an annoying hardware limitation here.
I've successfully installed OSX to IDE within 8GB...
You're correct. Panther (10.3) or Tiger (10.4) are required. And with XPF you can install either on any Beige G3. I have both DT and MT. The DT has a reflashed SIL3112 and SATA SSD.
Try forcing a safe boot (by holding the shift key on boot) to rebuild the kext cache. This will ensure the correct driver is pulled from the card’s ROM and cached.
It should run as configured, but I don't how much testing there was originally on these machines.
Note that the original kernel in binary form is here: https://nubus-pmac.sourceforge.net/nubus-pmac/test/vmlinux-2.4.27-040811.gz
Cross posting from TinkerDifferent: https://tinkerdifferent.com/threads/powermac-7100-and-linux.4368/
In particular, I've reconstructed kernel source for the linux-2.4.27 that runs both Yellow Dog 3.0 and Debian 3.0 on Nubus Powermacs.
That C4/5/8/9 combo reeks all sorts of havoc. I’ve recently restored a Classic II and both serial ports didn’t work due to broken traces and blown vias in this area.
Actually, the Console5 kit doesn't include any ceramics - as the quagmirerepair.com page might imply - they're all aluminum electrolytics of decent quality.
[Though I'm certainly not a spokesman for Console5 .. see https://tinkerdifferent.com/threads/a-mostly-successful-iisi-restoration.3912/...
Here's one list: https://quagmirerepair.com/replacement-capacitor-kit-for-sony-mp-f75w-11g-3-5-floppy-disk-drive.html?srsltid=AfmBOorrqI87XaeDQRt3tdpqK8dkrb9guE_Gsj2Qkx1zj35oHYFdqgHV
I got a fairly economical set from Console5.com.
I ran into this panic trying to run Jaguar on a machine (PM7600) with a Sil3112 SATA-PCI card. I've successfully used a reflashed Sil3112 on various G3s running MacOS9, Tiger, etc. I was disappointed that the PM7600 failed. I can run various flavors of Linux and classic Mac on this hardware but...
I've just restored an IIsi and I've also noticed buzzing as the mouse moves. My ADB is connected through a switch (actually an S-video switch).
Observations:
When the keyboard/mouse is directly connected, there's no buzzing.
There'ss no buzzing on my comparable machines - IIci, SE30, LCIII...
So, yes .. it is possible to get Glenn's driver to work with this card .. but it's tricky:
The register base offset of 0x80000 is different.
The memory base offset of 0x40000 is different.
The board ID is 962 (0x3c2).
The byte lane wiring is awkward so register space mapping is convoluted and...
I've now modified the NetBSD-9.3 ae driver (supporting Apple/Asante/Farallon/etc cards with 8390 NICs) to match this odd-ball Sonic card and communicate correctly.
The RAM base offset is 0x40000 and the register base is 0x80000. The tough part was figuring out (by trial and error) the register...
I wondered too. And tried. Nope :(
I am making some progress on the NetBSD front. I have a NetSBD9.3-based 8390 driver that reads and decodes the Declaration ROM, sizes the RAM, reads the MAC addr, but then gets confused .. I'm not sure I'm correctly configuring the register space.
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