Good day to all, Here is a little report on the Sarge NetInst (I'm pretty sure I used yesterday's build, 20040725) on HP Omnibook XE3. Kernel 2.6.7.
1. Even though I told it to use french language, french timezone and keymap, it still used the US keymap. However the installer is made such that you can't know this until after it's asked you for the root password. Result is that you have to reverse engineer the password you actually typed in by looking at a US layout... pain in the butt. 2. The ethernet adapter on this notebook is an Accton EN2242 miniPCI Fast Ethernet Adapter that needs tulip. It seems to recognize this and it loads tulip. Everything else works smooth up until reboot (except some of the questions and things are randomly in english instead of french, but no matter). After reboot, it tries to get on the network and start downloading the useful stuff, like emacs, vim, X, etc. Except I get this message over and over and over, every couple of seconds NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out It cannot connect to the network. What is even more annoying is that when I try to go to a shell and see what the problem is, look at a few configuration files, etc, I don't have vim, so I can't edit them, and to get vim I have to go to the network, and I don't have the network... So I burn the first iso CDs and install a minimal graphical environment that would allow me to figure out what's going on. I go through aptitude and install as much stuff as I can without burning the whole 15 CD set or whatever. Aptitude is hell! It's atrocious. There are questions about apache and ssl and php that I had to answer at least 4-5 times (??? wierd). I was actually starting to feel a little insulted. [Besides I didn't even want to install those, but it was three in the morning and I did not feel like going through the package lists and picking them one by one. Never mind.] Everything installs, I boot into the graphical system, and here's the punch line. Ethernet works without as much as a sneeze!!! Tulip is loaded, network is configured, everything is just peachy. Which is an indication that this is purely a problem of the installer, not of the driver or of the network. 3. With the 2.4 kernel the installation works OK until you reboot, and it hangs when trying to load tulip. Sorry I forgot exactly what the last lines are, but it's something like bla bla loading tulip bla bla PCI bla bla IRQ 11 bla bla and then it hangs. So now I have what seems to be a functional 2.6.7 system, but there is much much work still to be done. For one, all the X fonts are bitmap so I am stuck with 10 point size cos anything bigger or smaller is pretty much unreadable. etc etc But I think this might be because the type 1 fonts might be on one of the other CDs which I did not burn. Also, the fonts are so sharp my eyes hurt, and I don't know how to get them a little more rounded out. Should I also post this to the debian-laptop list? I am brand new to Debian (making the switch from Redhat for obvious reasons) so if I'm stepping on toes, please don't flame me. I hope somebody can do something about this stuff, especially the keyboard stuff, and about aptitude. Is there some other package configuring and installing tool in the works or is aptitude (uuoooogrhhhh, the noise Sideshow Bob makes while rubbing Velma's feet) where it's gonna be for a while? Alex Cabuz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
