On Wed, 12 Feb 2025 04:20:48 -0800 jose....@metztli.com said: > Niltze [Привет : Hello]- > > I had a rough time installing Debian into a laptop-like device without > ethernet cable plug orifice and only offering rtw89 wifi device. I even > tried an 'official' Debian netboot Installer media without success: > kernel modules did not recognize any of the rtw89 module set.
sometimes you just need an old dumb usb wired network dongle hanging around... it'd save you days of effort :) i have several of them in drawers i've collected over the years... of course i don't install debian which can often be quite behind in kernels unless you use sid/unstable iso's instead of stable. i use arch and whatever iso they have tends to be pretty close to latest kernels. > Accordingly, after several days I succeeded in hacking non-official > rtw89 modules into a reiser4 -enabled kernel build. The generated UDEBs > and especially the > nic-wireless-modules-5.17.0-3+reizer4.0.2-amd64-di_5.17.13-2+reizer4.0.2_amd64.udeb > > subsequently built into my custom d-i created the magic to recognize the > rtw89 device and successfully install Debian on reiser4 and with > Enlightenment available after the very first boot. Of course, d-i > installation was in 'expert mode'; I recreated an approximate procedure > to install Enlightenment under VirtualBox. > > 1) I deselected the 'Debian desktop environment' and 'GNOME' > < http://www.enlightenment.org/ss/e-67ac8042ba3a18.02282015.jpg > > > 2) Towards the last phase of the installation I created a hack, asking > the user to just type E to install the Enlightenment WM; of course, this > option will acquire Ross/Metzler Debian packages and install: connman > terminology enlightenment bluez bc pulseaudio packagekit udisks2 ddcutil > gdb xorg xdm > < http://www.enlightenment.org/ss/e-67ac8167d46383.54308496.jpg > > > 3) Accordingly, upon the very first boot, after typing credentials at > XDM, Enlightenment configuration is awaiting > < http://www.enlightenment.org/ss/e-67ac838b6129e8.18600024.jpg > > > 4) We follow through: > < http://www.enlightenment.org/ss/e-67ac8438036c01.01154187.jpg > > > 5) And finish by increasing the screen resolution: > < http://www.enlightenment.org/ss/e-67ac8510b50124.22777878.jpg > > > A word of caution: GNOME installs pipewire which seems to conflict with > E's pulseaudio. Thus, if GNOME is selected first likely d-i will refuse > to deconfigure pipewire to install pulseaudio if E is subsequently > selected, as well. pipewire-pulse will do too - a pulse api front end to pipewire and it then all works as if it were pulse. if the packages can't express this - you'll have to talk to the packagers :) > -- > Best Professional Regards. > > -- > Jose R R > http://metztli.it > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Download Metztli Reiser4: Debian Bookworm w/ Linux 5.17.13-2 AMD64 > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > feats ZSTD compression https://sf.net/projects/metztli-reiser4/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Official current Reiser4 resources: https://reiser4.wiki.kernel.org/ > > > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-devel mailing list > enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- Carsten Haitzler - ras...@rasterman.com _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
