Hi Sara,
With the new BIOS, was finally able to get Wheezy installed on the Lenovo
Z580 using the B2 netinst CD and non-free firmware rtl_nic/rtl8105e-1.fw,
brcm/bcm43xx-0.fw and brcm/bcm43xx_hdr-0.fw.
Now the problem is that when I install guest OS's such as Ubuntu 10.04,
the machine freezes at some point during software update downloads or just
waiting long enough and the CPU fan goes into full speed. I am going to
try re-installing on a traditional HD instead of the current SSD to see
if that solves the problem.
Hag sameach,
- yba
On Tue, 25 Sep 2012, sara fink wrote:
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 14:37:12 +0200
From: sara fink <[email protected]>
To: Jonathan Ben Avraham <[email protected]>
Cc: Baruch Siach <[email protected]>, ILUG <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [YBA] Lenovo z580 BIOS setup horror story
Which network card you have? Chipset?
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Jonathan Ben Avraham <[email protected]> wrote:
On Tue, 25 Sep 2012, Baruch Siach wrote:
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 08:50:28 +0200
From: Baruch Siach <[email protected]>
To: Jonathan Ben Avraham <[email protected]>
Cc: ILUG <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [YBA] Lenovo z580 BIOS setup horror story
Hi Yonatan,
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 06:40:53AM +0200, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote:
I was not able to get any version of Debian to install on this
laptop,
Not even (kernel v3.2 based) Debian Wheezy (testing)?
Hi Baruch,
The Wheezy netinstall CD from this last August did not identify the Z580
network card.
- yba
so I ended up installing Mint, using a 240GB SSD instead of
the original HD. It boots in less than ten seconds.
What kernel version does your Mint installation uses?
baruch
On Tue, 28 Aug 2012, sara fink wrote:
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 13:58:33 +0300
From: sara fink <[email protected]>
To: Jonathan Ben Avraham <[email protected]>
Cc: Diego Iastrubni <[email protected]>, [email protected]
Subject: Re: [YBA] Lenovo z580 BIOS setup horror story
About CPM, I didn't have so good experience with them. I have
a fujitsu siemens. when it was in warranty, it was several times at CPM. One
time they were supposed to replace the screen and they
didn't, even although in the report they
claimed they changed it. I complained about to the service
abroad.
I hope that they will take care of your laptop. Next time, I
strongly suggest to make a list of hardware + serial numbers. Lenovo doesn't
have other service except CPM? It's quite surprising.
Asus has service at IBM labs. at least
this is the agreement between bug (who imports asus) and ibm.
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Jonathan Ben Avraham
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Diego, et, al.
I called the local Lenovo service. The contact info on
http://www.lenovo.com/contact/xe/en/index_il.html
Indicates that +972-3-531-3900 is the telephone number
for Lenovo warranty and repair service. However, at that number there is only a
voice recording that the telephone number was changed
to *6557 or 03-914-2800.
So I called 03-914-2800 and received *another* number:
1-809-258990. At that number a recorded female voice speaking Hebrew with a
very heavy French accent instructed me which button to
press. I pressed "1" and spoke with
Ahmed in heavily Arabic accented Hebrew who patiently
listened to my complaint and wrote down the details and asked me to wait a
minute while he called someone. After a minute Ahmed
returned and asked me to verify his
summary of my complaint. He then gave me a service ticket number
and asked me to send the laptop to "CBM" at Menachem Begin 37, Tel Aviv. After
some searching and thinking I realized that
this "CPM",
http://www.cpm-israel.com/. Most importantly, Ahmed gave
me the telephone number of CPM, 03-718-3700, which I could not otherwise find
any listing for, especially not on their web site.
I called CPM, who told us to deliver the laptop to Fedex
at Givat Shaul in Jerusalem. We sent the laptop to Fedex at Givat Shaul in
Jerusalem and they refused to accept it. We called CPM
to tell them that Fedex told us that
they have not been working with CPM for the past six
months. CPM called Fedex and then asked us to send the laptop back to Fedex
Givat Shaul. Fedex accepted the laptop late Sunday and is
now in the process of transporting
it to Tel Aviv.
I will update you as soon as we receive confirmation
from CPM that the laptop arrived.
I visited Machsanei Hashmal and explained the problem to
them, emphasized that I had no complaint against them and that for Windows
users the model would probably be just fine but warned
them not to sell the Z580 to anyone
who looks nerdy.
Regards,
- yba
On Mon, 27 Aug 2012, Diego Iastrubni wrote:
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 21:18:22 +0300
From: Diego Iastrubni <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [YBA] Lenovo z580 BISO setup horror
story
On יום ראשון, 19 באוגוסט 2012 22:37:24 Jonathan
Ben Avraham wrote:
Dear Colleagues,
I recently purchased a Lenovo Z580 Ideapad
from Macsanei Hashmal.
I replaced the 750GB HD with a 240GB SSD and
installed Squeeze. The
installation succeeded but I was unable to
log out - had to hold power
button to force off.
Same story with Wheezy.
Installed Ubuntu 12.04. Seemed to work fine
but I am too old to deal wuth
Unity, so I installed Mint Xfce.
After installing Mint I am not able to get
into the BIOS setup menu no
matter what I press, either the main power key or the
"recovery" key,
whether F2 or F12, I always get to a limited
boot menu that is not
editable.
If I connect an ethernet cable, it tries to
PXE, then TFTP boot until I
press escape - not so secure.
Can't find the CMOS battery if there is one
and can't find service
documentation that would tell me where it is.
Re-installed the original 750GB HD and
booted into Windows 7 Home Edition.
Downloaded new BIOS from support.lenovo.com
but it wont install.
... and? Is it working now? What have you done?
I assume this list is full os Lenovo users, and a
FAIL is very important to hear.
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