Re: debian lenny on Acer Extensa 4420-5963
Thanks for your help Ricardo. It sucks that I'll have to run an EXE but
perhaps the 4310 will work sometime soon.
I will keep posting about my experiences with this laptop.
On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 10:40 -0300, Ricardo Ichizo wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 09:11:31AM -0400, David O'Toole wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 10:07 -0300, Ricardo Ichizo wrote:
> > > Hi David,
> > >
> > > On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 08:45:46AM -0400, David O'Toole wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > The somewhat stale lenny netinst disc I had lying around did not
> > > > > > detect any of the laptop's network hardware
> > > > > [..]
> > > > >
> > > > > According to your boot log, the network adapter uses the "sky2" module,
> > > > > so it's a Marvell Yukon 2 Gigabit Ethernet adapter.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > I'm sorry I forgot to mention this---the boot log is from the successful
> > > > install with the later netinst CD, so the Marvell is detected just fine.
> > > > It's the wireless that I'm having trouble with now---nothing shows up in
> > > > dmesg...
> > > >
> > >
> > > What is the driver ?
> > >
> > > Do lspci or lshw commands show something ?
> > >
> >
> > lspci shows this:
> >
>
> Do you know if the b43 driver support your network controller ?
>
> > 05:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4310 USB Controller
> > (rev 01)
>
> BCM4310 appears to be an unsupported card [1]. =/
>
> >
> > I've set up broadcom on laptops before and already installed
> > b43-fwcutter---perhaps I've just missed a step?
>
> Try ndiswrapper...I gess it functions. You can see this tutorial [2].
>
>
> [1] http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#unsupported
> [2] http://www.stylesen.org/configuring_wireless_bcm4310_uart_card_in_debian_etch_amd64_using_ndiswrapper
>
> Best Regards,
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