Comments on: Mac Mini G4 Homeserver With Ubuntu Linux 10.04, WPA2

By: Daehenoc

Daehenoc — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 01:59:47 +0000

Hey Bjorn, I found a very useful guide for manually configuring WPA wireless and used it for my Mac Mini G4, so it’s attached to my wireless and is my weather station: http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/wiki/index.php/Quick_HOWTO_:_Ch13_:_Linux_Wireless_Networking

By: Ricardo

Ricardo — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 05:58:50 +0000

Great HowTo, I was fighting with wireless on my home server as well, now it works :thu:

By: Oyvind

Oyvind — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 19:21:54 +0000

I have never been able to get pbbutton to work on my old Mac mini (G4). But, in case others are looking for a quick but not so elegant solution the following small script worked for me:

#!/bin/bash
cat /dev/pmu | (while true ; do hd -n6 | grep 0000000 && shutdown -h now ; done)

Saved as /usr/local/bin/shutdownscript and added to rc.local to start at boot. Don’t know why, but I need to press the power button twice to have it shutdown, but at least I can run the computer without keyboard and screen..

By: Björn

Björn — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 00:09:56 +0000

Thanks, just tried it but it didn’t work. But I guess it is a start that could warrant further investigating, once I find the time :-/

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 09:09:09 +0000

Hi Bjorn,

I got this working on my G4 Quicksilver with Ubuntu by installing pbbuttonsd.

I had to modify /etc/pbbuttonsd.conf and change this line:

OnAC_KeyAction = none

to:

OnAC_KeyAction = shutdown

I ran /etc/init.d/pbbuttonsd restart to restart the daemon, and then the power button worked to trigger a clean shutdown.