A post for the archives... I have now installed Squeeze on Samsung N220, but since my experiences (and hardware!?) differ a little, I'll add to Eric's report:
> I did the following: > > 1. using unetbootin, I created a usb flash drive boot disk using the > current version of squeeze (aka testing) with the netinst iso image. > > 2. I booted this and let the installer do its work. I did have to go > into setup to change the boot order. My network connection died towards the end, when I was about to install grub. I could perhaps have solved it with some debootstrap knowledge but lacking that, I copied these packages via a memory stick into /var/cache/apt/archives: grub, grub-common, grub-legacy, grub-pc, os-prober. > 3. everything but wireless (and my problems with screen brightness) > worked out of the box. for wireless, after checking the boot logs > (dmesg), I realised that the wireless was being recognised but that > the kernel module (r8192_pci) was missing the firmware it needed. I got AR9285 instead, using ath9k. Modules loaded and network-manager-kde brought everything up. Logs seemed successful, etc. The only problem was that I couldn't do much -- not even ping. Well, I could ping the access point, but not very reliably. I'd been fighting with this for quite some time when it literally solved itself: while I turned my back on the netbook, something changed... I've skimmed the logs, but haven't figured it out. Let's see what happens with this over time... > I like this computer: Totally agree. I'm not as uncomfortable with the keyboard as I thought I'd be. The right shift key is small, but I'm sure I'll get used to it. For some reason they've moved the "<>|" key to a completely unheard of location (I'm using a Swedish keyboard) but that too should be possible to adjust to. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
