the live-cd starts now, but it does not find the hard-disk to install
it also seems that it does not recognize the wifi, and to my surprise it starts with the vesa-driver
so i give up for now, hope you find out something new
the live-cd starts now, but it does not find the hard-disk to install
it also seems that it does not recognize the wifi, and to my surprise it starts with the vesa-driver
so i give up for now, hope you find out something new
Yikes, what a mess. My net connection is being quite slow right now- as soon as I get this LiveCD downloaded I'll see what I can find out.
on monday i will try to contact dell, perhaps they can help...
vista is so slooooow
I was using an 8.04 CD (err, usb stick, actually). Adding "all_generic_ide" to the kernel arguments allows it to install. This must be some kind of kernel bug that was fixed by the time 8.10 came out. Maybe even 8.04.1 would work, I think that's what the Dell website says they're using. The behavior is very strange: sda cannot even be accessed by fdisk, and sdb1, the fat partition on the flash drive, doesn't mount...
i will try this with the 8.04.1 now
edit: the kernel-parameter helped, it is installing now.
still no wifi and only the 1024x768 screen resolution
Last edited by marduk667; December 19th, 2008 at 11:28 PM.
Yeah I think it turns out I used 8.04.1 after all. If you do a distribution upgrade after the install it will of course break xorg. But I'm going to see if I can still fix it afterward, maybe manually downgrade X and the kernel.
I am now writing this post from the installed Ubuntu 8.04.1!
Just installing all the patches.
Sound and Bluetooth are working, the VESA driver has the wrong resolution i will look for that next. Also the Wifi driver is not loading, i also can't find the Wireless Interface in lspci, thats kind of strange as in the 8.10 live cd the wireless seemed to work (it showed up as eth1).
Well now first i will patch the system and then i will look for the problems
But...it is really fast now
Hah! The wireless is the Broadcom BCM4310 "USB controller". The bcm43xx driver fails to recognize it. Probably just needs to know some new PCI ID.
Wireless is working using this HowTo (sorry it is german):
http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/WLAN/Broa...light=broadcom
Now i will check the display resolution problem.
from the linuxwireless site:
BCM 4310 USB - This device has an LP PHY. We think that means low power. In any case, previous code does not work. The reverse engineers have translated a great deal of the code and are currently generating specs for the code writers. Note: This card uses the PCI buss, despite its name.
I guess ndiswrapper will have to do for now.
My guess on the resolution thing is that a tool similar to "915resolution" is needed.
Last edited by kylecronan; December 20th, 2008 at 12:48 AM.
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