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All, This is a 450MHz G4 cube model M7886. I’m trying to install debian 12 (netinstall cd) onto this, but the nic is not recognised, and thus installation fails when source would be mounted. Which nic is in this Mac? Any hints and ideas are welcome. Actually my only target is to have modern...

Absolutely fantastic work. Such a huge project and only two mistakes. Incredible

Like Mark Twain said, reports of IPv4's death are a great exaggeration. IPv4 is not going away in anytime soon. Address space may be exhausted but the protocol itself is so deeply in modern internet that replacing it with IPv6 (or any other version or protocol) is not going to happen in the...

All, What are the actual differences between those two? From the Macintosh garden: "Shuriken is the official follow-up project to Sorbet Leopard, as well as the direct successor to the AquaTrimcelerator / AquaSuite Mac OS X 10.4 utility packages, in addition to being the ultimate culmination in...

Thanks. Card itself is different, but seems like it uses the same -ish chip DP8390CN versus DP8390DN on mine. I'll have a go with that.

All, I wonder if a driver for my Shiva etherboard can be found? Apparently this has been sold under many manufacturer names. Edit: fixed title

Update. Finally got a new display adapter and that has solved the distorted picture issue. I have now run this computer three days, most of it of course hibernated or power save mode, what ever it is called. I have also disabled one cpu in open firmware, and that may have solved the issue of...

According to serial numbers lookup on everymac.com this is a powermac7,2. Thats where i got the info on the subject. 🙂 This is not liquid cooled, there are ordinary cooling blocks. I have some more information on this. It seems to boot when it is cold, ie been powered off overnight. I even...

I just got this one. Excitedly set it up and turned power on. Aaand it won't boot. Symptoms power led is lit when button is pressed, it goes off right after fans do rotate slowlishly. fans do rotate at full speed when the plastic cover is removed. Also a red led is lit on the logic board. Both...

I had really trouble finding or making suitable adapter which would convert the signal from II ci for any of my not-SoG monitors. No dice. So I got frustrated and bought a second-hand Dell display (P2314H) which works great. In fact most Dell monitors I looked for do actually SoG. I don't...