Re: debian lenny on Acer Extensa 4420-5963

On Friday 12 September 2008 15:26:05 Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 18:43:34 -0400, David O'Toole wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 21:09 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > I would try to load the module and check the syslog for messages, i.e. > > > > > > modprobe -v b43 > > > > > >

Re: debian lenny on Acer Extensa 4420-5963

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 18:43:34 -0400, David O'Toole wrote: > On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 21:09 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > I would try to load the module and check the syslog for messages, i.e. > > > > modprobe -v b43 > > > > grep -i b43 /var/log/syslog > > > > monad:/home/dto# modprobe -v b43

Re: debian lenny on Acer Extensa 4420-5963

On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 21:09 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > I would try to load the module and check the syslog for messages, i.e. > > modprobe -v b43 > > grep -i b43 /var/log/syslog > monad:/home/dto# modprobe -v b43 insmod /lib/modules/2.6.26.5-rt8/kernel/drivers/input/input-polldev.ko insmod

Re: debian lenny on Acer Extensa 4420-5963

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 14:26:08 -0400, David O'Toole wrote: > On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 16:59 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > By the way: Right after I sent my earlier message I realized that I had > > not run update-pciids for a while. With an up-to-date PCI ID list, the > > description of [14e4:

Re: debian lenny on Acer Extensa 4420-5963

On Thursday 11 September 2008 10:47:09 David O'Toole wrote: > Thanks for your help Ricardo. It sucks that I'll have to run an EXE but > perhaps the 4310 will work sometime soon. Hi David! It seems you're out of luck right now: http://www.linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#unsupported But don

Re: debian lenny on Acer Extensa 4420-5963

On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 16:59 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > By the way: Right after I sent my earlier message I realized that I had > not run update-pciids for a while. With an up-to-date PCI ID list, the > description of [14e4:4315] has changed from "BCM4310 USB Controller" to > "BCM4312 802.11b/g

Re: debian lenny on Acer Extensa 4420-5963

The bugreport i filed is here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=498612 On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 15:35 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 09:11:31 -0400, David O'Toole wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 10:07 -0300, Ricardo Ichizo wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at

Re: debian lenny on Acer Extensa 4420-5963

> > lspci shows this: > > > > 05:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4310 USB > Controller > > (rev 01) > > That does not seem to be a wireless LAN controller; it looks like the > [14e4:4315] USB controller to me. > > What output do you get from > > lspci -nn | grep -Ei 'net|eth

Re: debian lenny on Acer Extensa 4420-5963

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 16:02:10 +0200, Franklin PIAT wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 09:11:31 -0400, David O'Toole wrote: > >> On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 10:07 -0300, Ricardo Ichizo wrote: > >> > On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 08:45:46AM -0400, David O'Toole wrote: > >> > > > > > >>

Re: debian lenny on Acer Extensa 4420-5963

Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 09:11:31 -0400, David O'Toole wrote: >> On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 10:07 -0300, Ricardo Ichizo wrote: >> > On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 08:45:46AM -0400, David O'Toole wrote: >> > > > > >> > > > > The somewhat stale lenny netinst disc I had lying around did not

Re: debian lenny on Acer Extensa 4420-5963

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 09:11:31 -0400, David O'Toole wrote: > On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 10:07 -0300, Ricardo Ichizo wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 08:45:46AM -0400, David O'Toole wrote: > > > > > > > > > > The somewhat stale lenny netinst disc I had lying around did not > > > > > detect any of th

Re: debian lenny on Acer Extensa 4420-5963

Thanks for your help Ricardo. It sucks that I'll have to run an EXE but perhaps the 4310 will work sometime soon. I will keep posting about my experiences with this laptop. On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 10:40 -0300, Ricardo Ichizo wrote: > On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 09:11:31AM -0400, David O'Toole wrote: >

Re: debian lenny on Acer Extensa 4420-5963

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 09:11:31AM -0400, David O'Toole wrote: > On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 10:07 -0300, Ricardo Ichizo wrote: > > Hi David, > > > > On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 08:45:46AM -0400, David O'Toole wrote: > > > > > > > > > > The somewhat stale lenny netinst disc I had lying around did not > >

Re: debian lenny on Acer Extensa 4420-5963

On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 10:07 -0300, Ricardo Ichizo wrote: > Hi David, > > On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 08:45:46AM -0400, David O'Toole wrote: > > > > > > > > The somewhat stale lenny netinst disc I had lying around did not > > > > detect any of the laptop's network hardware > > > [..] > > > > > > Acco

Re: debian lenny on Acer Extensa 4420-5963

Hi David, On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 08:45:46AM -0400, David O'Toole wrote: > > > > > > The somewhat stale lenny netinst disc I had lying around did not > > > detect any of the laptop's network hardware > > [..] > > > > According to your boot log, the network adapter uses the "sky2" module, > > so

Re: debian lenny on Acer Extensa 4420-5963

> > > > The somewhat stale lenny netinst disc I had lying around did not > > detect any of the laptop's network hardware > [..] > > According to your boot log, the network adapter uses the "sky2" module, > so it's a Marvell Yukon 2 Gigabit Ethernet adapter. > I'm sorry I forgot to mention this-

Re: debian lenny on Acer Extensa 4420-5963

On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 21:12 -0400, David O'Toole wrote: > I purchased an Acer Extensa 4420-5963 laptop at retail > > The somewhat stale lenny netinst disc I had lying around did not > detect any of the laptop's network hardware [..] According to your boot log, the network adapter uses the "sky2"