Re: Etch NetInst Thinkpad 600
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Andrew J. Barr wrote:
> Matthew K Poer wrote:
>> On my old Thinkpad 600, I am attempting to install Etch via NetInst CD.
>> I am having trouble with pcmcia detection, which means I cannot properly
>> detect my network hardware.
>>
>> The main modules seem to load (pcmcia-core, pcmcia, yenta_socket), as
>> well as the module for my wireless card (bcm43xx), yet "lcpcia" does not
>> show my wireless card.
>
> This card also requires non-free firmware that needs to be extracted
> from any number of sources, including the Windows driver bcmwl5.sys
> file, the Mac OS X Airport Extreme driver, or the various Linux/MIPS
> drivers that have come from router vendors' "GPL release" tarballs
> (generally called something like wl_apsta.o)
>
> The bcm43xx-fwcutter tool facilitates this task, I don't know how or if
> that will work with the debian-installer however, because that software
> is in 'contrib' and not 'main'.
>
> Andrew
>
well, dmesg | grep "Yenta"
...yada yada yada...
something about not detecting... check BIOS settings or ACPI settings...
BIOS didn't do anything odd...
boot# install acpi=off
That did the trick. Automatically found bcm43xx as well. Even found my
network.
Good night for GA.
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