On 25 February 2010 23:23, Ben Armstrong <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 24/02/10 08:57 PM, Craig O'Brien wrote: >> >> I have tried both documented options (the boot.img.gz/netinst option and the >> unetbootin/netinst/CD-1 option). The rt2860 wireless interface does not >> seem to be detected in either case. I read >> (http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/i386/ch06s04.html.en) that the >> installer was capable of installing non-free firmware. However, copying the >> firmware-ralink deb onto the USB flash drive (either to the root of the >> device or in a directory "/firmware") does not help. The installer does not >> prompt for firmware at any time. Is the rt2860 not supported in the kernel >> that is used with these methods? > > The most likely reason for this is wifi being toggled off in the BIOS. Check > your BIOS settings. Don't let the blue light fool you. Asus has made it an > indicator both for wireless *and* bluetooth.
Thanks... I did as you suggested and the wireless interface was indeed enabled. I suspected as much since the debian-eeepc.img install worked just fine. Just in case, I reset all BIOS settings to factory defaults and then re-enabled the wireless. I retried the install with the same result. Can anyone else out there with a 901 test to see whether this is widespread, or just me? I have been using joeyh's boot media (http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/hd-media/) and the daily netinst ISOs (http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/i386/iso-cd/) from 16 Feb to 23 Feb 2010... I would ideally like to install Squeeze using the wireless interface, but If I have to install using the wired LAN then I will... But I'd rather get to the bottom of the problem if I can (with the community's help, of course :-) >> Am I going to have to wait for a debian-eeepc.img that supports Squeeze? > > There are no plans for such a thing. Our goal is to make Debian itself > install on the Eee, and that includes having the standard installer work out > of the box. The custom installer was necessary in the early days of the > project when the standard installer didn't work well for the Eee, but now > that the standard installer mostly works, making sure it works for everyone > is our focus. I see... Yes, that seems to be the best goal - Debian *is* the universal operating system. >> While installing using the updated d-i, I noticed character glitches within >> its interface - a portion of the right-hand border was misaligned, the >> buttons had what looked like escape codes all over them... It didn't render >> the interface unusable, it just messed it up a bit. This did not happen >> with the debian-eeepc.img Lenny installer. Is this a bug, or am I doing >> something wrong? > > Sounds like a bug. Please file one against debian-installer. Will do this weekend - once I figure out how :-) >> Lastly, I have some feedback for the wonderful DebianEEEPC wiki - >> specifically for the section regarding the Standard Installer >> (http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/HowTo/InstallUsingStandardInstaller). >> Apologies if this is not the correct channel to go through... If it is >> better for me to simply create a wiki account and edit what's there, please >> say so. > > Yes. Please do. Wilco. > Thanks, > Ben _______________________________________________ Debian-eeepc-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-eeepc-devel
