On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 10:07 -0300, Ricardo Ichizo wrote: > Hi David, > > On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 08:45:46AM -0400, David O'Toole wrote: > > > > > > > > The somewhat stale lenny netinst disc I had lying around did not > > > > detect any of the laptop's network hardware > > > [..] > > > > > > According to your boot log, the network adapter uses the "sky2" module, > > > so it's a Marvell Yukon 2 Gigabit Ethernet adapter. > > > > > > > I'm sorry I forgot to mention this---the boot log is from the successful > > install with the later netinst CD, so the Marvell is detected just fine. > > It's the wireless that I'm having trouble with now---nothing shows up in > > dmesg... > > > > What is the driver ? > > Do lspci or lshw commands show something ? >
lspci shows this: 05:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4310 USB Controller (rev 01) I've set up broadcom on laptops before and already installed b43-fwcutter---perhaps I've just missed a step? Thanks for the gmail tip, I will set that up. > In the last case, you can try to use the ndiswrapper [1] with the > W32 driver. > > > > If you have some time, can you send an installation report, so the > > > Debian-Installer know about this problem (it takes 10 minutes) : > > > http://www.debian.org/releases/lenny/i386/apas04.html > > > > Is there another way to do this besides the reportbug command? It > > crashes because it doesn't support Gmail's SMTP... > > You can send a email directly, but needs a special format [2]. But > reportbug supports Gmail. You can see my reportbug config file > (only interesting lines are shown): > > /etc/reportbug.conf: > email "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > realname "Ricardo Ichizo" > replyto "Ricardo Ichizo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" > smtphost smtp.gmail.com:587 > smtpuser n1ghtcr4wler > smtppasswd secret > smtptls > > [1] http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/joomla/ > [2] http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting > > Best Regards, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
