Thanks for your help Ricardo. It sucks that I'll have to run an EXE but perhaps the 4310 will work sometime soon.
I will keep posting about my experiences with this laptop. On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 10:40 -0300, Ricardo Ichizo wrote: > On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 09:11:31AM -0400, David O'Toole wrote: > > 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: > > > > Do you know if the b43 driver support your network controller ? > > > 05:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4310 USB Controller > > (rev 01) > > BCM4310 appears to be an unsupported card [1]. =/ > > > > > I've set up broadcom on laptops before and already installed > > b43-fwcutter---perhaps I've just missed a step? > > Try ndiswrapper...I gess it functions. You can see this tutorial [2]. > > > [1] http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#unsupported > [2] > http://www.stylesen.org/configuring_wireless_bcm4310_uart_card_in_debian_etch_amd64_using_ndiswrapper > > Best Regards, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
