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    Re: Installing on the Dell Mini 12

    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

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    Re: Installing on the Dell Mini 12

    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.

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    Re: Installing on the Dell Mini 12

    on monday i will try to contact dell, perhaps they can help...

    vista is so slooooow

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    Re: Installing on the Dell Mini 12

    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...

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    Re: Installing on the Dell Mini 12

    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.

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    Re: Installing on the Dell Mini 12

    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.

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    Re: Installing on the Dell Mini 12

    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

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    Re: Installing on the Dell Mini 12

    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.

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    Re: Installing on the Dell Mini 12

    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.

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    Re: Installing on the Dell Mini 12

    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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