Re: Toshiba Satellite C50d/A00L laptop, can't install Debian - any version......
Have you use NETINSTALL AMD64 DEBIAN STABLE? When you write a cd-r use
4x as speed. After this check in your BIOS that it is NOT Activated
UEFI.
Check again this configuration.
Tell us for your progress.
Carlo.
2013/11/19 Charlie <ariestao@skymesh.com.au>:
>
>
> Trying to install Debian on this lappy and keep hitting a brick wall.
>
> The same message with the Jessie or Wheezy netinstall iso or the
> first Install DVD of Jessie or Wheezy:
>
> "No kernel modules were found. This probably is due to a mismatch
> between the kernel used by this version of the installer and the
> kernel version in the archive."
>
> Then I continue because this can be rectified once a mirror has been
> chosen and there is no Ethernet card found, and there is no wireless
> option when looking for network hardware?
>
> So that's the brick wall. I have the installer search a USB stick that
> has every kind of realtek and every other driver I can find, but no joy.
>
> I have tried it with different wireless dongles which aren't even
> recognised. Just no Ethernet, never wireless.
>
> I also get the error message:
>
> Loading amd64-microcode failed for unknown reasons. Aborting.
>
> The Ethernet device is RTL8101E/RTL8102E Fast Internet controller.
>
> The wireless device is Device 8179 9 (rev 01)
>
> I even rang Toshiba but they told me they didn't support Linux and
> couldn't point me to any drivers. Yet I read on the net during my
> drilling down looking for drivers, that someone had emailed Toshiba and
> they had emailed him drivers for his Ethernet card. No joy there for
> me. Can't even find their email address.
>
> Just on the off chance, has anyone had any success with installing
> Debian on this machine?
>
> Ubuntu 10 live runs on it but doesn't recognise the network cards
> either. [laughing]
>
> I recall reading a blog of a Debian developer/programmer some years ago
> writing that he wondered why he stayed with Linux, when it was all such
> a struggle, when in windows it all just works. I can identify with that
> at the moment.
>
> Though to be fair, In the past I have just bought a laptop, formatted
> the hard drive and install one or another flavour of current Debian of
> the time without any worries. :-)
>
> Maybe it's time I get accustomed to working with windows?
>
> At the moment it's all interesting, but that's been for the last 5
> days, it will soon wear off I think.
>
> Anyway, just in case anyone has one of these laptops working.
>
> TIA
> Charlie
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