Hardware = Dell Latitude E5430 with BCM Eth & Wireless. The 13.10 Server installer hangs on the purple text screen. Switching to console 2 and inspecting syslog reveals failure to load bcm wireless firmware.
Disabling Wireless device in BIOS during prior to installation was what I did. Blacklisting the brcmsmac should do the trick too. I believe this model of laptop IS on the Ubuntu certification list, so this probably merits a little heat. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Tieto, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1249474 Title: server install iso and netboot pxe hang in ethdetect Status in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Hi, I am trying to install Ubuntu 13.10 amd64 through my pxe server with the regular ubuntu netboot release. While this works on some of my machines, I experienced another problem. When booting an Acer Aspire One 756 (Broadcom BCM4313 802.11bgn WLAN adapter), the installation process hangs in a very early state, right after detecting the keyboard type. The machine is still running, you can login through a second console. The problem is that it hangs within udpkg --configure --force-configure ethdetect /bin/sh /bin/ethdetect /bin/sh /bin/check-missing-firmware p2p1 wlan0 ip link set p2p1 up or similiar with wlan0 instead of p2p1. The ip link command can't even be killed with kill -9 So it's definitely that ethdetect hangs wich this particular wlan chip. Didn't find a workaround yet. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1249474/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~tieto Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~tieto More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
