Macbook + Slackware...

Chris Sorenson · External Since: Jul 11, 2005 Posts: 153

After bit of googley moogley it seems people are trying <subject line>
but having hardware issues. Ubuntu apparently "comes with" all the
drivers (whatever that means!) but wouldn't judicious use of lspci and
compiling a custom kernel be the same thing? The Intel-based Macs use
pci, right? I know, I'm a clueless newb... Razz

Anyway, I'm going to give it a try as I recently got work as an iPhone
app developer and I certainly don't want a Mac that won't boot into
Slackware as the need arises...

fnegroni · External Since: Mar 19, 2009 Posts: 2

On 20 Oct, 16:59, Chris Sorenson <cso... DeleteThis @isd.net> wrote:
> After bit of googley moogley it seems people are trying <subject line>
> but having hardware issues. Ubuntu apparently "comes with" all the
> drivers (whatever that means!) but wouldn't judicious use of lspci and
> compiling a custom kernel be the same thing? The Intel-based Macs use
> pci, right? I know, I'm a clueless newb... Razz

>
> Anyway, I'm going to give it a try as I recently got work as an iPhone
> app developer and I certainly don't want a Mac that won't boot into
> Slackware as the need arises...

I am running Slack 12.2 on a MacPro, if that helps.
The CDROM does not work properly, the sound card is not recognised
(but I guess with a bit of work it could work, I am just too lazy)
I also had to use ReFit to allow booting LILO.
Grub might be a better choice

Chris Sorenson · External Since: Jul 11, 2005 Posts: 153

On Oct 20, 11:28 am, fnegroni <f.e.negr....TakeThisOut@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 20 Oct, 16:59, Chris Sorenson <cso....TakeThisOut@isd.net> wrote:
>
> > After bit of googley moogley it seems people are trying <subject line>
> > but having hardware issues. Ubuntu apparently "comes with" all the
> > drivers (whatever that means!) but wouldn't judicious use of lspci and
> > compiling a custom kernel be the same thing? The Intel-based Macs use
> > pci, right? I know, I'm a clueless newb... Razz

>
> > Anyway, I'm going to give it a try as I recently got work as an iPhone
> > app developer and I certainly don't want a Mac that won't boot into
> > Slackware as the need arises...
>
> I am running Slack 12.2 on a MacPro, if that helps.
> The CDROM does not work properly, the sound card is not recognised
> (but I guess with a bit of work it could work, I am just too lazy)
> I also had to use ReFit to allow booting LILO.
> Grub might be a better choice

Excellent! That gives me great hope... Smile

What is the output of `lspci -vv' on your Macbook, if I may ask?

Chris Sorenson · External Since: Jul 11, 2005 Posts: 153

>
> I have slackware64 13.0 on a macbook but it took ages to get everything
> to work. For instance, I got the broadcom drivers from a mandriva
> repository, because the ones on the broadcom site didn't work with the
> kernel version 13.0 uses; and mandriva had patched ones.
>

I've had great success with the b43 broadcom driver from
linuxwireless.org, but always with a custom compiled kernel not a
Slack one.

>
> It works great now, but I don't know if I would do it again.
>

I'm sure I'll be saying the exact same thing when I finish doing what
you had to do... Wink

Dirk van Deun · External Since: Jan 10, 2006 Posts: 5

Chris Sorenson (csoren@isd.net) wrote:
: After bit of googley moogley it seems people are trying <subject line>
: but having hardware issues. Ubuntu apparently "comes with" all the
: drivers (whatever that means!) but wouldn't judicious use of lspci and
: compiling a custom kernel be the same thing? The Intel-based Macs use
: pci, right? I know, I'm a clueless newb... Razz

: Anyway, I'm going to give it a try as I recently got work as an iPhone
: app developer and I certainly don't want a Mac that won't boot into
: Slackware as the need arises...

I have slackware64 13.0 on a macbook but it took ages to get everything
to work. For instance, I got the broadcom drivers from a mandriva
repository, because the ones on the broadcom site didn't work with the
kernel version 13.0 uses; and mandriva had patched ones.

It works great now, but I don't know if I would do it again.

Dirk van Deun
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