Hi all,
So I’m trying to bring some life back into my girlfriend’s old Mac. It’s a PowerPC G4. I was planning on installing lununtu but apparently Ubuntu and it’s flavours don’t support PowerPC anymore. Thankfully FreeBSD does!!
I managed to install FreeBSD with the PowerPC CD iso, but I don’t have an Ethernet connection...router is at the other side of the house relative to the office.
So I’m trying to tether my iPhone to the Mac mini, but ifconfig doesn’t detect it, after I do the “ kldload if_ipheth “ command. But FreeBSD does show when the phone gets disconnected and connected to the computer:
“ugen3.2: Apple Inc. iPhone>at usbus3”
Not sure where to go from here. Should I just hook up my Linux netbook and try to share the connection? Maybe do an update then try again?
I was hoping tethering would work so that I can have a connection fairly easily when I come to update the computer.
Thanks in advance.
So I’m trying to bring some life back into my girlfriend’s old Mac. It’s a PowerPC G4. I was planning on installing lununtu but apparently Ubuntu and it’s flavours don’t support PowerPC anymore. Thankfully FreeBSD does!!
I managed to install FreeBSD with the PowerPC CD iso, but I don’t have an Ethernet connection...router is at the other side of the house relative to the office.
So I’m trying to tether my iPhone to the Mac mini, but ifconfig doesn’t detect it, after I do the “ kldload if_ipheth “ command. But FreeBSD does show when the phone gets disconnected and connected to the computer:
“ugen3.2: Apple Inc. iPhone>at usbus3”
Not sure where to go from here. Should I just hook up my Linux netbook and try to share the connection? Maybe do an update then try again?
I was hoping tethering would work so that I can have a connection fairly easily when I come to update the computer.
Thanks in advance.