Testing 10.2 on a PowerBook Wallstreet

[Ebonit]

I upgraded my powerbook with the sonnet 500Mhz G4 Crescendo/ws card. 512Mb RAM 20Gb HD. and offcourse Jaguar. Only thing though is that since I installed Jaguar I get those "grey screen of deaths", once in two or three weeks. Also before I upgraded to G4. Might be the RAM. I've seen more reports on this with powerbooks but never ever found a solution.

I am very happy with the G4 upgrade and can recomment it.

[kendall]

How can you be happy with your G4 upgrade if you get a kernel panic 2-3 times a week?

[plastic]

I think it is better than my at least one BSOD per day PC.

[Ebonit]

I had that problem with my G3 processor already so it is not related to the G4 upgrade. It is a problem that seems to occur on powerbooks. Maybe a heat issue? I don't know. nobody seems to.

The G4 upgrade performs very well though. Not only in Jaguar but also in OS9, wich I use on a regular basis. So I am glad with that upgrade.

[chrisjasper]

With regard to installing on a 2gb drive, I was under the impression that was for a full install, you might not actually need all the language files and printer extras and assorted free bits that come with 10.2.
I have a 4gb drive so its not quite so much of an issue with me.

Any further info people? I havent actually got around to installing 10.2 yet so I would like to find out before trashing my only Mac.

Thanks

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Wallstreet 233, 192mb ram, 4gb HD

[J5]

Hey all -
This has been driving me insane! I have a powerbook g3 series wallstreet (the infamous 233!) which I've upgraded as much as possible, outside of the big ram upgrade. Anyway, the ethernet has been toasted forever now. I have a farallon cardbus 10/100 ethernet card that works under os9, and worked under 10.1.5. Under jaguar (10.2.x) it won't startup with the card in place, and when I insert the card it gives the grayed out "you must restart" error. Does anyone have any specifics on what changed in jaguar concerning the cardbus slot, or cardbus ethernet drivers? I'm getting by with a linksys wireless card, but this machine has been delegated to server duty, and I'd actually prefer the bit of a speed gain from using the 10/100 card. Anyone??! any ideas?! I've been high and low trying to find an answer but no luck.

j5

[macosXrumors]

Thank you to post taht J5, was about to buy the same ethernet card as you. I finally decided to sell the powerbook .

[fryke]

are there still farallon cards? or is that used? i thought farallon was split and the NICs were netopia now...

however: if apple decided to take away support for this card, you might want to ask some Darwin people. maybe someone has an open source driver for PC-Card NICs?