Most things are the same as for the newer iBook, so here are only the differences:
processor : 0 cpu : 750FX temperature : 0-5 C (uncalibrated) clock : 400MHz revision : 2.2 (pvr 7000 0202) bogomips : 792.57 machine : PowerBook4,3 motherboard : PowerBook4,3 MacRISC2 MacRISC Power Macintosh detected as : 257 (iBook 2 rev. 2) pmac flags : 0000001b L2 cache : 512K unified memory : 640MB pmac-generation : NewWorld
The CPU frequency is switchable between 400MHz and 800MHz.
lspci00:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth/Pangea AGP 00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500] 0001:10:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth/Pangea PCI 0001:10:17.0 Class ff00: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo/Pangea Mac I/O 0001:10:18.0 USB Controller: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo/Pangea USB 0001:10:19.0 USB Controller: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo/Pangea USB 0002:20:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth/Pangea Internal PCI 0002:20:0e.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth/Pangea FireWire 0002:20:0f.0 Ethernet controller: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth/Pangea GMAC (Sun GEM)lsusb
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
CFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=750 -pipe -mpowerpc-gfxopt"
CHOST="powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu"
CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PORTAGE_NICENESS=11
LINGUAS="de en" # for OpenOffice
USE=" -gnome -fortran -f77 -joystick -matrox -ipv6 qt kde dvd cdr pam apache2 mysql bash-completion gpm php tetex usb ssl tiff cups zlib bzip2 curl X radeon fbcon dri opengl avi mpeg flash quicktime divx4linux sdl xv alsa oss mp3 ogg oggvorbis flac cdparanoia xmms encode unicode nls gimp utf8 mplayer"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.inode.at/ ftp://gentoo.inode.at/source/
ftp://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/ http://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/"
The difference in the USE flags are: no altivec, no bluetooth
Module Size Used by radeon 120328 1 drm 77144 2 radeon autofs4 19396 1 nfsd 239828 13 exportfs 5440 1 nfsd lockd 69524 2 nfsd sunrpc 159888 8 nfsd,lockd sd_mod 15472 0 scsi_mod 101412 1 sd_mod eth1394 19400 0 ehci_hcd 32840 0 ohci1394 36308 0 ieee1394 417392 2 eth1394,ohci1394 uninorth_agp 9032 1 agpgart 31836 2 drm,uninorth_agp nls_utf8 1920 1 hfsplus 79748 1 snd_pcm_oss 60064 0 snd_mixer_oss 19488 1 snd_pcm_oss i2c_keywest 9760 0 snd_powermac 46656 0 snd_pcm 93476 2 snd_pcm_oss,snd_powermac snd_timer 23940 1 snd_pcm snd 59892 5 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_powermac,snd_pcm,s nd_timer soundcore 8580 1 snd snd_page_alloc 9320 1 snd_pcm evdev 10080 5 ohci_hcd 22084 0 usbcore 132380 3 ehci_hcd,ohci_hcd apm_emu 6476 1 sungem 33380 0 sungem_phy 9696 1 sungem mousedev 12252 1/etc/modules.autoload
sungem apm_emu ohci-hcd evdev mousedev snd-powermac snd-pcm-oss
This iBook has a standard Trackpad, we don't need any special driver. No appletouch driver and no synaptics driver.
The modem should be a softmodem with a Connexant, accessible by the hcfusb driver from linuxant.
Should work fine, but not tried yet.