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Offline enstzTopic starter

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Prometheus board troubles
« on: March 25, 2006, 02:21:34 AM »
Prometheus for a4000t.

Trying to get this to run under any kind of linux/bsd
Got the standard voodoo3 and realtek 8029as, but all i really want to get is the realtek working.

Anyone had any success doing this?

Can't find drivers
I might try to figure out how to port them based on the AmigaOS drivers and classic pci bus drivers for linux/bsd mixed with a touch of some compsci stuff I might actually find a use for...

But failing the above, i'll have to fork out at least another 200 euro or so for a mediator board, and even then i still won't be on my way to getting the extra ram i need. :cry:  

The sys is a a4000t, prometheus, no other bells or whistles, debian runs fine on it but i really want to get the pci bus working :-?

Any help would be much appreciated, glad to see this scene is still going strong.

I intend to host an irc daemon on it and link it to a public network, get the amiga out there and show that it can contend, might make even the most stubborn people question themselves twice when they say the amiga is useless nowadays.  ;-)
 

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Re: Prometheus board troubles
« Reply #1 on: March 27, 2006, 08:31:12 AM »

Have you installed debian linux m68k for amiga? It actually has pretty good support for drivers, even the AGA framebuffer stuff has been ported and i can run the X window manager, it also has support for tonnes of zorro cards, since the drivers are open source it shouldn't be too hard for someone who knows about PCI to modify an existing driver to work under debian.

So now the question is, do I have the knowledge/time to actually go and write it, or am i better off buying a mediator, which does support linux?

hard choices.