I’m new to Haiku, I’ve run it, and have enjoyed using it–but there is one problem. The wireless and wired connections are not recognizable! Is there a way to port the drivers for Haiku from a driver installation folder from Windows to Haiku, or to import those drivers straight so the new card would work? And if so, can that be activated?
It would make life a whole lot easier to do so–as suddenly, all the missing items would begin to work–but especially the Internet/networking hardware! As of right now, I’m running it in an emulator because without networking, Haiku’s not being a full OS.
Secondly, though this one’s only curiosity, I have an iBook G3 with OS X installed; and I’m super interested on putting Haiku in it–after all, Haiku gets it’s roots from BeOS. I saw there is a PowerPC port, so I downloaded the boot CD and imaged the PowerPC Haiku image to a flash drive. The little Apple gave me a gray screen (like before the Apple logo would appear) and then the CD drops before I can select the flash drive with the actual Haiku in it. The Mac proceeds to its own OS from there. Any ideas on how this can be done? I hope other interested Apple users are reading this.
You said earlier, “If you do not download and use the .VMX settings file, networking will not work as Haiku does not work with the default virtual driver in VMWare.” Does this refer to the need to download a Haiku appliance–does the VM image in “Get Haiku!” have the .vmx file? Honestly asking, as I’m curious on this.
If not, would a plain CD work for this? It can, if it needs to.
On the Mac side, I think that OS X will work for now, since Haiku won’t run on the Mac as I’d hoped. Again, however, without wireless on the real computer, I’m not sure about using Haiku as a primary OS, and surely it can go beyond an emulator. Just my thoughts.
You said earlier, “If you do not download and use the .VMX settings file, networking will not work as Haiku does not work with the default virtual driver in VMWare.” Does this refer to the need to download a Haiku appliance–does the VM image in “Get Haiku!” have the .vmx file? Honestly asking, as I’m curious on this. :)[/quote]
I Can’t find the file on the alpha2 download page myself. I don’t really know that much about VMWare as I use virtualbox; this itself needs to have the virtual driver changed for networking to work, however the settings are not kept as a external file.
No, Windows drivers are not compatible with Haiku in any way. The first step to getting something going is to find out what Ethernet and Wi-Fi hardware you have. In Haiku, open a Terminal window and type listdev.
Secondly, I would not get my hopes up for a usable PPC port any time soon, it is still in an early non-usable stage and doesn’t get much developer attention at the moment.
Drivers are generally OS-specific. Some might be pretty portable, but only on a source level. What you’re suggesting is impossible unless someone writes some kind of driver compatibility layer. I don’t know the specifics about why your wireless network isn’t working, but someone is working on improving wireless support in Haiku. Encrypted networks, or networks that require password authentication, for instance are not supported yet, but will be in the future.
It’s true that BeOS supported the PowerPC architecture. I do doubt however that BeOS’ code was identical for all platforms. Haiku has reimplemented BeOS on the x86 architecture. To support other architectures, I think the developers will either have to write genuine support for Haiku, without BeOS compatibility, or reimplement BeOS again. Unfortunately it will probably take a while before support for any other architectures will be mature enough for general use. They almost got the ARM port to boot, but that’s far from being a final goal.
You might be able to get BeOS to run on that machine however, did you try?
Thank you all for replying. I know that BeOS got its start in order to run on the PowerPC platform to hopefully run on machines like Apples. My question is whether Haiku will run on the notebook–however, I do not own a copy of BeOS.
The driver problem is genuine–not even under VMWare Player can I get the browser to work with the native Atheros AR5007EG driver on the Acer Aspire One AOA150 (Onyx) to work. As much as I don’t like Windows XP, that’s what its running. I might add all the proprietary drivers and apps are the reason I don’t like Windows–not to mention what I think are glitches in the system. Shut down Windows and an alternative OS based computer, for instance, and this’ll make sense.
I understand that drivers are not exactly portable, and ARE OS-specific, but Linux can use Windows drivers with ndiswrapper spinned in. I’m working on PC first, because my Apple can’t boot Haiku! I would love for my Apple to run Haiku, but again, drivers…
I’m hoping to get the Internet working with any driver, but if Windows ones were able to be used, it would allow Windows switchers to switch over easily. Now, I have a Planex Mini2 USB Wi-Fi adapter that has Linux, OS X, and Windows drivers available. Can I port ANY of these drivers? I can compile and write stuff, if necessary, and like programming–otherwise, I wouldn’t have even thought of Haiku!
Lastly, I REALLY would like to know about connecting to secured WPA2 TKIP networks, as this is necessary as well. I heard Haiku only works on unsecured networks–that also would present a problem. Simply put, as I saw a ThinkPad user write, if I can’t get the networking and Internet up and running, then I can’t use Haiku.
Haiku will try to boot from a PPC, however it will crash to the kernel whilst doing so.
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The driver problem is genuine–not even under VMWare Player can I get the browser to work with the native Atheros AR5007EG driver on the Acer Aspire One AOA150 (Onyx) to work. As much as I don’t like Windows XP, that’s what its running.[/quote]
If you do not download and use the .VMX settings file, networking will not work as Haiku does not work with the default virtual driver in VMWare.
The FreeBSD version of ndiswrapper might be able to be ported with Some work.
