microUgly
July 29th, 2012, 03:27 AM
I've been trying to install 12.04 on an older Compaq laptop.
Originally, the demo and installer loaded fine, I was able to load to this screen quite a few times. But the wireless wasn't working so I didn't have internet access. No worries, I plugged a network cable, at wich point the GUI froze. From that point on, I could no longer load the demo/installer. It just froze on the animated dots. Even after unplugging the network cable and disabling wireless in the firmware. I have no idea how it loaded a few times and then would load ever again.
So I downloaded the alternate installer which installed fine. But now Ubuntu is installed, it still won't boot--it just gets stuck on loading screen with the dots.
I've tried loading from recovery mode and it stops after displaying:
b43-phy0 ERROR: You must go to http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefireware and download...I believe this was the same issue preventing the installer from loading--I disabled quiet to see what was going on and it got a little further than this before stopping.
I've found the instructions at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx for updating the firmware, but I don't know how to get Ubuntu to boot so I can perform these steps.
It's driving me crazy because I don't care if it doesn't load the wireless hardware. I actually have wireless disabled in the BIOS so I'm surprised it's even aware of the hardware. Is there a way to tell it to start up without attempt to load wireless?
Any help would be much appreciated. I've been trying to try Linux for over a decade. But I always give up because these problems always occur and suck up so much time that eventually I have to be rational and switch back to something that does work--and then try again in 12 months :)
Originally, the demo and installer loaded fine, I was able to load to this screen quite a few times. But the wireless wasn't working so I didn't have internet access. No worries, I plugged a network cable, at wich point the GUI froze. From that point on, I could no longer load the demo/installer. It just froze on the animated dots. Even after unplugging the network cable and disabling wireless in the firmware. I have no idea how it loaded a few times and then would load ever again.
So I downloaded the alternate installer which installed fine. But now Ubuntu is installed, it still won't boot--it just gets stuck on loading screen with the dots.
I've tried loading from recovery mode and it stops after displaying:
b43-phy0 ERROR: You must go to http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefireware and download...I believe this was the same issue preventing the installer from loading--I disabled quiet to see what was going on and it got a little further than this before stopping.
I've found the instructions at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx for updating the firmware, but I don't know how to get Ubuntu to boot so I can perform these steps.
It's driving me crazy because I don't care if it doesn't load the wireless hardware. I actually have wireless disabled in the BIOS so I'm surprised it's even aware of the hardware. Is there a way to tell it to start up without attempt to load wireless?
Any help would be much appreciated. I've been trying to try Linux for over a decade. But I always give up because these problems always occur and suck up so much time that eventually I have to be rational and switch back to something that does work--and then try again in 12 months :)