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Hello,

I just purchased a laptop see specs @ bottom.

It’ll be the replacement to the old P3 running the latest debian rerlease, Etch I believe.

I want to install debian using my netinstall disk since the laptop has both wired and wireless NIC. I’ll nstall using the wired and get the wireless working later if that is possible. Right now I have Mepis 7 64bit running on it.

When I install Debian, the install goes well as far as I can see. No obvious errors or error messages. I use a nearby mirror for the installer to install the system. When it comes time to reboot, the system seems to reboot normally until it get s to the line

starting statd

then the screen goes black. Can’t bring up any console. Only solution is to reboot into another live cd.

Any thoughts as to what is happening I like Mepis but I like Debian een more and I’d like to have it as my OS.

Thanks
Nick

Laptop Specs…

It's an HP Pavilion DV6253CL classed as an "Entertainment PC"

Microprocessor 1.6 GHz AMD Turion ™ 64 X2 Dual-Core Mobile Technology TL-52
Microprocessor Cache 2 X 512KB L2 Cache
Memory 2048MB DDR2 System Memory (2 Dimm)
Video Graphics NVIDIA GeForce Go 6150 (UMA)
Video Memory up to 128MB (shared)
Hard Drive 120GB 5400RPM (SATA)
Multimedia Drive Super Multi 8X DVD±R/RW with Double Layer Support
Display 15.4" WXGA High-Definition Brightview Widescreen (1280 X 800) Display
Fax/Modem High speed 56k modem
Network Card Integrated 10/100BASE-T Ethernet LAN (RJ-45 connector)
Wireless Connectivity 802.11b/g WLAN (a Broadcom/Dell NIC)
Multimedia Features HP Imprint Finish & HP Webcam with Integrated Microphone
Sound Altec Lansing
Keyboard 101-key compatible

2 Quick Launch Buttons (HP Quick Play Music and DVD buttons)
Pointing Device Touch Pad with On/Off button and dedicated vertical scroll Up/Down pad
PC Card Slots

* 1 ExpressCard/54 Slot (also supports ExpressCard/34)

External Ports

* 5-in-1 integrated Digital Media Reader for Secure Digital cards, MultiMedia cards, Memory Stick, Memory Stick Pro, or xD Picture cards
* 3 Universal Serial Bus (USB) 2.0
* 2 Headphone out - 1 w/SPDIF Digital Audio & 1 stereo
* 1 microphone-in
* 1 VGA (15-pin)
* 1 TV-Out (S-video)
* 1 RJ-11 (modem)
* 1 RJ -45 (LAN)
* 1 notebook expansion port 3
* 1 IEEE 1394 Firewire (4-pin)
* 1 Consumer IR

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Re: Serious Debian Install problem(s)

Submitted by pinniped on Wed, 2008-05-14 16:30.

Have a look at the boot parameters of the live CD. You may see switches like "noapic" and others. The type of fault you describe is typical of buggy hardware. You might also have a look at tuxmobil.org and see if there are any comments about installing Debian on that model laptop.

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Re: Serious Debian Install problem(s) SOLVED

Submitted by nicsmr on Thu, 2008-05-15 09:35.

Hi All,

Found a thread with the same problem.

Solution,

Boot up the netinstall CD with the parameters... Install vga=771 noapic nolapic

Debian is up an running. Have to do something about Gnome though.

Now all I have to do is get wireless running and life will be great. Any hints on that?

Thanks Pinniped

nick

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Re: Serious Debian Install problem(s) SOLVED

Submitted by pinniped on Thu, 2008-05-15 18:42.

If you have a wireless access point:

apt-get install wireless-tools

Set up the access point for WPA-PSK (WEP is 100% useless; you may as well not use encoding if you're going to use WEP).

You need to note your SSID and of course the WPA-PSK passphrase

Now you need to create the wireless key from your SSID and passphrase:

wpa_passphrase myssid "my silly passphrase"

You will get a result that's something like:

network = {
ssid="myssid"
#psk="my silly passphrase"
psk="some long sequence of hex characters"
}

So you need the long sequence of hex characters.
Edit /etc/network/interfaces and add something like:

auto eth1 (assuming 'eth1' is the name given to your wireless gizmo)
iface eth1 inet dhcp
wpa-mode ap
wpa-ssid "myssid"
wpa-psk that-very-long-string-of-hex-characters

Note: The SSID and passphrase are case-sensitive, but some wireless routers in the past have:
1. internally converted the SSID to all CAPS
2. internally converted the SSID to all smalls

In principle the long hex key shouldn't care about case (a=A etc), but just to be safe it's best to copy the result as it appears (all lowercase).

If you got everything right:
ifup eth1
and you should be magically connected to the net.

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Re: Serious Debian Install problem(s)

Submitted by nicsmr on Thu, 2008-05-15 23:49.

Sorry Pinniped I use wep...

And sorry but the wireless thing is just too much. reinstalling Mepis 7 64 bit. I know that it can see my wireless, AND it's debian. How ironic.

Nick

In keeping with the spirit of this forum, I'll end this thread and continue it in the networking section.

Thanks for your help.
Nick

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