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SuzanneL
June 16th, 2013, 09:41 PM
Ubuntu and Aloha,

I have a Gateway laptop I bought in 2005. I don't know the model, but the

Ubuntu 10.10 System Monitor says:

Hardware:
Memory: 463.8 MiB
Process Intel(R) Celeron(R) M Processor 1.5 GHz

System Status
Available disk space 48.7 GiB

Until yesterday it had WinXP on it that didn't work well, and I thought some hidden viruses, because it would not always boot and when it did boot, the wifi wouldn't work. Installing Ubuntu on a friend's old 2002 Dell laptop, whose WinXP's networking had been destroyed by viruses, had restored all functionality so splendidly for him (you couldn't pay him to go back to Windows now), that I had hopes for my own laptop.

Well, 2005 was too old for this Gateway laptop to recognize the USB boot stick, and I didn't have any blank DVD's laying around, so I installed from the old Ubuntu 10.10 Live CD I had, figuring I'd upgrade later. It installed beautifully, the Ubuntu 10.10 runs fine except that the first time it booted natively it flashed a black msg screen at me that I needed to install some wifi driver, but that disappeared so fast I couldn't read it, and of course it won't show it to me again. So of course the wifi still doesn't work.

I am speaking to you now tethered through my smart phone. Attempts to upgrade Ubuntu through the tether have failed, as I must upgrade to Ubuntu 11 before I can upgrade to Ubuntu 12, but of course Ubuntu 11 itself is so old it has been removed from the servers. So I got in the car and out into the blazing Phoenix 101 degree Fahrenheit heat and bought some blank DVD's, plunked one into the much hated Win8 (now you see it now you don't shell game of an operating system) across the room and made the Ubuntu 12.04 Live DVD.

I put it in the Gateway laptop, and it cooked a while, showed me the new-fangled black bar across the top, and then crashed and never returned. I tried it multiple times, and apparently the Ubuntu 10.10 was not touched, as I am still able to boot to it, and am talking to you on it. You can see a screenshot of it the crashed 12.04 install attempt here -- http://bluecoffeecat.com/Ubuntu-install-crash.jpg (Sorry it's 2.8 MB for one ol' screenshot, but GIMP will not install for Linux anywhere but from the Software Center, and of course, GIMP for 10.10 has been removed from the servers. I am caught in a Catch 22.)

Even if my wifi is dead - I'll buy a USB wifi adapter if I have to since I know the tethering works - but should I bother retrying the 12.04 install? Was this a hardware error? Or perhaps a bad burn of the LIve DVD?

Thanks for any suggestions,

Suzanne


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ahallubuntu
June 16th, 2013, 10:02 PM
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mörgæs
June 17th, 2013, 12:57 AM
Hi, welcome to the fora.

Here's some more on the PAE problem and solutions:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PAE

SuzanneL
June 17th, 2013, 04:13 PM
Wow, thank you for the quick responses! I see I have some educating myself to do to figure out which one I should try. My ultimate goal is to run Synthesia (Dance Dance Revolution for piano keyboard) on Wine on it, on a big screen TV. And maybe stream a few movies :-)

I will come back and let you know how it goes.

Thank you again.

mörgæs
June 17th, 2013, 11:29 PM
You're welcome.

Second thought: After all I'm not convinced that PAE is the problem. Please run


sudo lshw > lshw.txt

and post lshw.txt in CODE tags.

SuzanneL
June 18th, 2013, 07:33 AM
I've done some reading now, so I'm begining to have an idea of the purposes of the different flavors, and ultimately figured I would just follow the links from this thread to complete the installation but I have not yet done so due to life's busy-ness. But here is the result of the lshw. Yes, it did really contain unprintable characters :confused: At the moment I have it hard-wired into the router (as the tethering would cut off any time somebody rang my phone). I do see near the bottom of the lshw what appears to be an indicator that the wifi is indeed "DISABLED". Besides the Ubuntu question, would you happen to know how to re-enable the wifi networking?

Thank you for looking at this.



cat lshw.txt
<computer name>
description: Notebook
product: 3040GZ
vendor: Gateway
version: Rev 1.0
serial: <serial number>
width: 32 bits
capabilities: smbios-2.31 dmi-2.31
configuration: administrator_password=enabled boot=oem-specific chassis=notebook frontpanel_password=unknown keyboard_password=unknown power-on_password=disabled uuid=804D084D-7E64-0010-8467-0E0E00001808
*-core
description: Motherboard
vendor: Gateway
physical id: 0
version: 4210
serial: V56HM5I0071FHCB00X
*-firmware
description: BIOS
vendor: Phoenix
physical id: 0
version: W320.F08 (06/06/2005)
size: 98KiB
capacity: 448KiB
capabilities: isa pci pcmcia pnp apm upgrade shadowing escd cdboot acpi usb agp biosbootspecification
*-cpu
description: CPU
product: Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor 1.50GHz
vendor: Intel Corp.
physical id: 4
bus info: cpu@0
version: 6.13.8
slot: U1
size: 1500MHz
width: 32 bits
capabilities: fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss tm pbe nx up bts
*-cache:0
description: L1 cache
physical id: 8
slot: L1 Cache
size: 16KiB
capacity: 16KiB
capabilities: asynchronous internal write-back
*-cache:1
description: L2 cache
physical id: 9
slot: L2 Cache
size: 1MiB
capabilities: burst external write-back
*-memory
description: System Memory
physical id: 15
slot: System board or motherboard
size: 512MiB
capacity: 3GiB
*-bank:0
description: SODIMM DDR Synchronous
physical id: 0
slot: M1
size: 512MiB
width: 32 bits
*-bank:1
description: SODIMM DDR Synchronous [empty]
physical id: 1
slot: M2
*-pci
description: Host bridge
product: 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 100
bus info: pci@0000:00:00.0
version: 02
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
configuration: driver=agpgart-intel
resources: irq:0
*-generic:0 UNCLAIMED
description: System peripheral
product: 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 0.1
bus info: pci@0000:00:00.1
version: 02
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master
configuration: latency=0
*-generic:1 UNCLAIMED
description: System peripheral
product: 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 0.3
bus info: pci@0000:00:00.3
version: 02
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master
configuration: latency=0
*-display:0
description: VGA compatible controller
product: 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 2
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
version: 02
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
resources: irq:16 memory:e8000000-efffffff memory:e0000000-e007ffff ioport:1800(size=8)
*-display:1 UNCLAIMED
description: Display controller
product: 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 2.1
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.1
version: 02
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: memory:f0000000-f7ffffff memory:e0080000-e00fffff
*-usb:0
description: USB Controller
product: 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1d
bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.0
version: 03
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: uhci bus_master
configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=0
resources: irq:16 ioport:1820(size=32)
*-usb:1
description: USB Controller
product: 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1d.1
bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.1
version: 03
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: uhci bus_master
configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=0
resources: irq:19 ioport:1840(size=32)
*-usb:2
description: USB Controller
product: 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1d.2
bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.2
version: 03
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: uhci bus_master
configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=0
resources: irq:18 ioport:1860(size=32)
*-usb:3
description: USB Controller
product: 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1d.7
bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.7
version: 03
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm debug ehci bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=ehci_hcd latency=0
resources: irq:23 memory:e0100000-e01003ff
*-pci
description: PCI bridge
product: 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1e
bus info: pci@0000:00:1e.0
version: 83
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pci normal_decode bus_master
resources: ioport:3000(size=4096) memory:e0200000-e02fffff memory:20000000-23ffffff
*-pcmcia
description: CardBus bridge
product: PCIxx21/x515 Cardbus Controller
vendor: Texas Instruments
physical id: 7
bus info: pci@0000:02:07.0
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pcmcia bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=yenta_cardbus latency=176 maxlatency=5 mingnt=192
resources: irq:19 memory:e020b000-e020bfff ioport:3000(size=256) ioport:3400(size=256) memory:20000000-23ffffff memory:28000000-2bffffff
*-firewire
description: FireWire (IEEE 1394)
product: OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller
vendor: Texas Instruments
physical id: 7.2
bus info: pci@0000:02:07.2
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm ohci bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=firewire_ohci latency=32 maxlatency=4 mingnt=3
resources: irq:19 memory:e020a000-e020a7ff memory:e0200000-e0203fff
*-storage
description: Mass storage controller
product: PCIxx21 Integrated FlashMedia Controller
vendor: Texas Instruments
physical id: 7.3
bus info: pci@0000:02:07.3
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: storage pm bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=tifm_7xx1 latency=57 maxlatency=4 mingnt=7
resources: irq:19 memory:e0204000-e0205fff
*-network:0
description: Ethernet interface
product: BCM4401 100Base-T
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 8
bus info: pci@0000:02:08.0
logical name: eth0
version: 01
serial: 00:03:25:1d:d8:ac
size: 100MB/s
capacity: 100MB/s
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=b44 driverversion=2.0 duplex=full ip=192.168.1.111 latency=32 link=yes multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=100MB/s
resources: irq:17 memory:e0206000-e0207fff
*-network:1
description: Network controller
product: BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 9
bus info: pci@0000:02:09.0
version: 03
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master
configuration: driver=b43-pci-bridge latency=32
resources: irq:17 memory:e0208000-e0209fff
*-isa
description: ISA bridge
product: 82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC Interface Bridge
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1f
bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.0
version: 03
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: isa bus_master
configuration: latency=0
*-ide
description: IDE interface
product: 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1f.1
bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.1
logical name: scsi0
logical name: scsi1
version: 03
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: ide bus_master emulated
configuration: driver=ata_piix latency=0
resources: irq:18 ioport:1f0(size=8) ioport:3f6 ioport:170(size=8) ioport:376 ioport:1810(size=16) memory:24000000-240003ff
*-disk
description: ATA Disk
product: IC25N060ATMR04-0
vendor: Hitachi
physical id: 0
bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0
logical name: /dev/sda
version: MO3O
serial: MRG31YKCKYUSJH
size: 55GiB (60GB)
capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
configuration: ansiversion=5 signature=000db741
*-volume:0
description: EXT4 volume
vendor: Linux
physical id: 1
bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0,1
logical name: /dev/sda1
logical name: /
version: 1.0
serial: 854138dd-6e9b-428c-b3f1-14c2a202bec7
size: 54GiB
capacity: 54GiB
capabilities: primary bootable journaled extended_attributes large_files huge_files dir_nlink recover extents ext4 ext2 initialized
configuration: created=1988-01-10 09:44:22 filesystem=ext4 lastmountpoint=/ȉ7XS�`t�܀;��������l!�`t�������*{�*{�XS� �4���yo!��d modified=2013-06-16 07:12:32 mount.fstype=ext4 mount.options=rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,barrier=1,data=ordered mounted=2013-06-17 22:28:18 state=mounted
*-volume:1
description: Extended partition
physical id: 2
bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0,2
logical name: /dev/sda2
size: 1498MiB
capacity: 1498MiB
capabilities: primary extended partitioned partitioned:extended
*-logicalvolume
description: Linux swap / Solaris partition
physical id: 5
logical name: /dev/sda5
capacity: 1498MiB
capabilities: nofs
*-cdrom
description: DVD reader
product: RW/DVD GCC-4243N
vendor: HL-DT-ST
physical id: 1
bus info: scsi@1:0.0.0
logical name: /dev/cdrom
logical name: /dev/cdrw
logical name: /dev/dvd
logical name: /dev/scd0
logical name: /dev/sr0
version: 1.01
capabilities: removable audio cd-r cd-rw dvd
configuration: ansiversion=5 status=nodisc
*-serial UNCLAIMED
description: SMBus
product: 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1f.3
bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.3
version: 03
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
configuration: latency=0
resources: ioport:1880(size=32)
*-multimedia
description: Multimedia audio controller
product: 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1f.5
bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.5
version: 03
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=Intel ICH latency=0
resources: irq:17 ioport:1c00(size=256) ioport:18c0(size=64) memory:e0100c00-e0100dff memory:e0100800-e01008ff
*-communication UNCLAIMED
description: Modem
product: 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Modem Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1f.6
bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.6
version: 03
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm generic cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: ioport:2400(size=256) ioport:2000(size=128)
*-remoteaccess UNCLAIMED
vendor: Intel
physical id: 1
capabilities: inbound
*-network DISABLED
description: Wireless interface
physical id: 2
logical name: wlan0
serial: 00:90:4b:fd:78:2a
capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=b43 driverversion=2.6.35-22-generic firmware=N/A link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg
$

ahallubuntu
June 18th, 2013, 07:41 AM
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mörgæs
June 18th, 2013, 10:10 AM
As I imagined there's no PAE problem on your computer, but you are low on RAM.

Forget everything posted about PAE and old Buntu releases. I would recommend a fresh install of Lubuntu 13.04 (including all updates) with wired internet access; when that works we can focus on the wirefree card.

SuzanneL
July 5th, 2013, 11:35 PM
Hi mörgæs, Thank you for the advise. I have come back after a couple of weeks and installed Lubuntu. It seems to work most of the time, and there are only a few browser add-ons I miss (like Flash, to watch YouTube). I cannot find a version of Flash that will install. I also found where I could download a non-open source driver for my wifi receiver, but my Lubuntu crashed entirely when I tried to install it. Below is a screenshot of that crash, and a re-run of the sudu lshw.

I have since had a couple of more random crashes. Is there anything more I can do, or am I likely to live with random crashes from now on?

Thank you for any advise,

Suzanne



http://sunwebhost.com/Lubuntu-crash.jpg



gateway-laptop
description: Notebook
product: 3040GZ
vendor: Gateway
version: Rev 1.0
serial: N6456 210 27068
width: 32 bits
capabilities: smbios-2.31 dmi-2.31
configuration: administrator_password=enabled boot=oem-specific chassis=notebook frontpanel_password=unknown keyboard_password=unknown power-on_password=disabled uuid=804D084D-7E64-0010-8467-0E0E00001808
*-core
description: Motherboard
vendor: Gateway
physical id: 0
version: 4210
serial: V56HM5I0071FHCB00X
*-firmware
description: BIOS
vendor: Phoenix
physical id: 0
version: W320.F08
date: 06/06/2005
size: 98KiB
capacity: 448KiB
capabilities: isa pci pcmcia pnp apm upgrade shadowing escd cdboot acpi usb agp biosbootspecification
*-cpu
description: CPU
product: Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor 1.50GHz
vendor: Intel Corp.
physical id: 4
bus info: cpu@0
version: 6.13.8
slot: U1
size: 1500MHz
width: 32 bits
capabilities: fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss tm pbe nx bts
*-cache:0
description: L1 cache
physical id: 8
slot: L1 Cache
size: 16KiB
capacity: 16KiB
capabilities: asynchronous internal write-back
*-cache:1
description: L2 cache
physical id: 9
slot: L2 Cache
size: 1MiB
capabilities: burst external write-back
*-memory
description: System Memory
physical id: 15
slot: System board or motherboard
size: 512MiB
capacity: 3GiB
*-bank:0
description: SODIMM DDR Synchronous
physical id: 0
slot: M1
size: 512MiB
width: 32 bits
*-bank:1
description: SODIMM DDR Synchronous [empty]
physical id: 1
slot: M2
*-pci
description: Host bridge
product: 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 100
bus info: pci@0000:00:00.0
version: 02
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
configuration: driver=agpgart-intel
resources: irq:0
*-generic:0 UNCLAIMED
description: System peripheral
product: 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 0.1
bus info: pci@0000:00:00.1
version: 02
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master
configuration: latency=0
*-generic:1 UNCLAIMED
description: System peripheral
product: 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 0.3
bus info: pci@0000:00:00.3
version: 02
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master
configuration: latency=0
*-display:0
description: VGA compatible controller
product: 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 2
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
version: 02
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
resources: irq:16 memory:e8000000-efffffff memory:e0000000-e007ffff ioport:1800(size=8)
*-display:1 UNCLAIMED
description: Display controller
product: 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 2.1
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.1
version: 02
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: memory:f0000000-f7ffffff memory:e0080000-e00fffff
*-usb:0
description: USB controller
product: 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1d
bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.0
version: 03
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: uhci bus_master
configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=0
resources: irq:16 ioport:1820(size=32)
*-usb:1
description: USB controller
product: 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1d.1
bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.1
version: 03
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: uhci bus_master
configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=0
resources: irq:19 ioport:1840(size=32)
*-usb:2
description: USB controller
product: 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1d.2
bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.2
version: 03
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: uhci bus_master
configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=0
resources: irq:18 ioport:1860(size=32)
*-usb:3
description: USB controller
product: 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1d.7
bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.7
version: 03
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm debug ehci bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=ehci-pci latency=0
resources: irq:23 memory:e0100000-e01003ff
*-pci
description: PCI bridge
product: 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1e
bus info: pci@0000:00:1e.0
version: 83
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pci normal_decode bus_master
resources: ioport:3000(size=4096) memory:e0200000-e02fffff memory:20000000-23ffffff
*-pcmcia
description: CardBus bridge
product: PCIxx21/x515 Cardbus Controller
vendor: Texas Instruments
physical id: 7
bus info: pci@0000:02:07.0
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pcmcia bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=yenta_cardbus latency=176 maxlatency=5 mingnt=192
resources: irq:19 memory:28000000-28000fff ioport:3000(size=256) ioport:3400(size=256) memory:20000000-23ffffff memory:2c000000-2fffffff
*-firewire
description: FireWire (IEEE 1394)
product: OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller
vendor: Texas Instruments
physical id: 7.2
bus info: pci@0000:02:07.2
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm ohci bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=firewire_ohci latency=32 maxlatency=4 mingnt=3
resources: irq:19 memory:e020a000-e020a7ff memory:e0200000-e0203fff
*-storage
description: Mass storage controller
product: PCIxx21 Integrated FlashMedia Controller
vendor: Texas Instruments
physical id: 7.3
bus info: pci@0000:02:07.3
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: storage pm bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=tifm_7xx1 latency=57 maxlatency=4 mingnt=7
resources: irq:19 memory:e0204000-e0205fff
*-network:0
description: Ethernet interface
product: BCM4401 100Base-T
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 8
bus info: pci@0000:02:08.0
logical name: eth0
version: 01
serial: 00:03:25:1d:d8:ac
size: 10Mbit/s
capacity: 100Mbit/s
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=b44 driverversion=2.0 duplex=half latency=32 link=no multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=10Mbit/s
resources: irq:17 memory:e0206000-e0207fff
*-network:1
description: Network controller
product: BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 9
bus info: pci@0000:02:09.0
version: 03
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master
configuration: driver=b43-pci-bridge latency=32
resources: irq:17 memory:e0208000-e0209fff
*-isa
description: ISA bridge
product: 82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC Interface Bridge
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1f
bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.0
version: 03
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: isa bus_master
configuration: driver=lpc_ich latency=0
resources: irq:0
*-ide
description: IDE interface
product: 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1f.1
bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.1
version: 03
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: ide bus_master
configuration: driver=ata_piix latency=0
resources: irq:18 ioport:1f0(size=8) ioport:3f6 ioport:170(size=8) ioport:376 ioport:1810(size=16) memory:24000000-240003ff
*-serial UNCLAIMED
description: SMBus
product: 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1f.3
bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.3
version: 03
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
configuration: latency=0
resources: ioport:1880(size=32)
*-multimedia
description: Multimedia audio controller
product: 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1f.5
bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.5
version: 03
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=snd_intel8x0 latency=0
resources: irq:17 ioport:1c00(size=256) ioport:18c0(size=64) memory:e0100c00-e0100dff memory:e0100800-e01008ff
*-communication UNCLAIMED
description: Modem
product: 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Modem Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1f.6
bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.6
version: 03
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm generic cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: ioport:2400(size=256) ioport:2000(size=128)
*-scsi:0
physical id: 1
logical name: scsi0
capabilities: emulated
*-disk
description: ATA Disk
product: IC25N060ATMR04-0
vendor: Hitachi
physical id: 0.0.0
bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0
logical name: /dev/sda
version: MO3O
serial: MRG31YKCKYUSJH
size: 55GiB (60GB)
capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
configuration: ansiversion=5 sectorsize=512 signature=000db741
*-volume:0
description: EXT4 volume
vendor: Linux
physical id: 1
bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0,1
logical name: /dev/sda1
logical name: /
version: 1.0
serial: 854138dd-6e9b-428c-b3f1-14c2a202bec7
size: 54GiB
capacity: 54GiB
capabilities: primary bootable journaled extended_attributes large_files huge_files dir_nlink recover extents ext4 ext2 initialized
configuration: created=1988-01-10 09:44:22 filesystem=ext4 lastmountpoint=/ modified=2013-07-05 14:37:03 mount.fstype=ext4 mount.options=rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered mounted=2013-07-05 14:37:03 state=mounted
*-volume:1
description: Extended partition
physical id: 2
bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0,2
logical name: /dev/sda2
size: 1498MiB
capacity: 1498MiB
capabilities: primary extended partitioned partitioned:extended
*-logicalvolume
description: Linux swap / Solaris partition
physical id: 5
logical name: /dev/sda5
capacity: 1498MiB
capabilities: nofs
*-scsi:1
physical id: 2
logical name: scsi1
capabilities: emulated
*-cdrom
description: DVD reader
product: RW/DVD GCC-4243N
vendor: HL-DT-ST
physical id: 0.0.0
bus info: scsi@1:0.0.0
logical name: /dev/cdrom
logical name: /dev/cdrw
logical name: /dev/dvd
logical name: /dev/sr0
version: 1.01
capabilities: removable audio cd-r cd-rw dvd
configuration: ansiversion=5 status=nodisc
*-remoteaccess UNCLAIMED
vendor: Intel
physical id: 1
capabilities: inbound
*-network
description: Wireless interface
physical id: 2
bus info: usb@1:3
logical name: wlan0
serial: f8:d1:11:12:f1:83
capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rt2800usb driverversion=3.8.0-26-generic firmware=0.29 ip=192.168.1.244 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn

mörgæs
July 6th, 2013, 09:03 PM
Have you applied all updates using wired internet connection?
Was it also unstable before you tried to add drivers?
If you run MEMTEST from the boot menu for (at least) a couple of hours, do you see any indication of bad memory sticks?