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Topic: extra drivers during install? - was (Issue backing up to Statler)

Just thought you might not be aware of this.
Currently running CB 904 on HP NC6000 and EVERYTHING WORKS out of the box. (so I am actually scared to move off it now!) but things are moving on - can't get the latest newsbeuter and calcurse to name a few.
So I thougt I would back it all up - rsync home to usb - clonezilla root to usb and try alpha2.
However, it stops during drivers asking for TIGON/tg3_ts05.bin for the broadcom I think.
I think this is a fairly common card and should be available ( I can't find it in my 904 setup but I have found it in a firmware deb.
Is this normal for debian and have I just been 'spoiled' using ubuntu's in the past?

regards Nigel

Last edited by nogg321 (2010-08-30 17:08:25)

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Re: extra drivers during install? - was (Issue backing up to Statler)

I'm not sure I understand what is happening here. Is the error occurring when taking your data off 9.04 or when moving it onto Statler?

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Re: extra drivers during install? - was (Issue backing up to Statler)

just to follow up on this...
when installing statler on nc6000  laptop, after  network hardware, it asks for the tigon/tg3_ts05.bin firmware for the broadcom eth0.
It says 'if you have it on floppy or usb, insert now and continue'
I tried from usb and when I press continue, the screen goes all blue except for cursor in bot left corner.
I tried 'expert' mode which gives the option to load extra modules etc. but then it returns to blue screen above forever (or half hour in my case!)
If I CTRL-C it goues back to expert menu and I can start network bit again with same result.
I was expecting a option to nav to where the tigon driver is, but it just hangs instead.

it says its a non free driver which I can live with but seems not to load it
It doesn't seem to notice the wlan 0 that CB 904 uses quite happliy either?

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Re: extra drivers during install? - was (Issue backing up to Statler)

did you try to run statler in live? does it boot/give you error messages? and does your hardware work in live environment?

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Re: extra drivers during install? - was (Issue backing up to Statler)

Luc,
thanks for reply, yes, it seems to work as a live disk (writing this now from it!)
here is the ifconfig and lsmod. I see a tg3 module loaded which I guess is the tigon driver.
And I just found in /lib/firmware that the tigon drivers are present.
So do I need to ignore during install and copy them in afterwards, hoping it will find them during a reboot?

regards Nigel

crunchbang@crunchbang:/media/sda6/zz292z$ lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
ext4                  254973  1
mbcache                 3762  1 ext4
jbd2                   56091  1 ext4
sco                     5857  2
bridge                 32987  0
stp                      996  1 bridge
bnep                    7444  2
rfcomm                 25167  4
l2cap                  21705  16 bnep,rfcomm
crc16                   1027  2 ext4,l2cap
fuse                   43758  1
arc4                     974  2
ecb                     1405  2
ath5k                 104118  0
radeon                508914  2
mac80211              123258  1 ath5k
snd_intel8x0m           8100  0
snd_intel8x0           19523  1
ttm                    33378  1 radeon
snd_ac97_codec         79148  2 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0
ath                     6014  1 ath5k
drm_kms_helper         18305  1 radeon
ac97_bus                 710  1 snd_ac97_codec
pcmcia                 17442  0
cfg80211               87601  3 ath5k,mac80211,ath
snd_pcm                47214  3 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec
btusb                   7997  2
drm                   112020  4 radeon,ttm,drm_kms_helper
snd_seq                35463  0
yenta_socket           16403  3
bluetooth              36327  9 sco,bnep,rfcomm,l2cap,btusb
led_class               1757  1 ath5k
rsrc_nonstatic          7057  1 yenta_socket
tpm_tis                 5496  0
i2c_algo_bit            3497  1 radeon
snd_timer              12258  2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
rfkill                 10264  3 cfg80211,bluetooth
pcmcia_core            20450  3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
i2c_i801                6462  0
tpm                     8137  1 tpm_tis
smsc_ircc2              8891  0
snd_seq_device          3673  1 snd_seq
tpm_bios                3569  1 tpm
wmi                     3575  0
parport_pc             15799  0
i2c_core               12696  5 radeon,drm_kms_helper,drm,i2c_algo_bit,i2c_i801
rng_core                2178  0
shpchp                 21220  0
parport                22554  1 parport_pc
snd                    34363  9 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
video                  14605  0
joydev                  6771  0
pci_hotplug            18065  1 shpchp
pcspkr                  1207  0
soundcore               3450  1 snd
irda                   75920  1 smsc_ircc2
output                  1204  1 video
serio_raw               2916  0
evdev                   5609  11
snd_page_alloc          5045  3 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
ac                      1640  0
processor              26599  1
container               1833  0
battery                 3782  0
crc_ccitt               1039  1 irda
psmouse                44653  0
button                  3598  0
squashfs               16647  1
loop                    9757  2
aufs                  107674  1
nls_utf8                 908  1
isofs                  24608  1
ide_generic              801  0 [permanent]
ide_core               59618  1 ide_generic
sg                     15968  0
sr_mod                 10770  1
sd_mod                 25869  2
crc_t10dif              1012  1 sd_mod
cdrom                  26487  1 sr_mod
ata_generic             2019  0
fan                     2586  0
ata_piix               17640  2
uhci_hcd               16057  0
tg3                    88273  0
libata                115665  2 ata_generic,ata_piix
thermal                 9206  0
ehci_hcd               27763  0
floppy                 40923  0
libphy                 11638  1 tg3
thermal_sys             9378  4 video,processor,fan,thermal
scsi_mod              101401  4 sg,sr_mod,sd_mod,libata
usbcore                98402  4 btusb,uhci_hcd,ehci_hcd
nls_base                4541  3 nls_utf8,isofs,usbcore
crunchbang@crunchbang:/media/sda6/zz292z$ lsmod|more
Module                  Size  Used by
ext4                  254973  1
mbcache                 3762  1 ext4
jbd2                   56091  1 ext4
sco                     5857  2
bridge                 32987  0
stp                      996  1 bridge
bnep                    7444  2
rfcomm                 25167  4
l2cap                  21705  16 bnep,rfcomm
crc16                   1027  2 ext4,l2cap
fuse                   43758  1
arc4                     974  2
ecb                     1405  2
ath5k                 104118  0
radeon                508914  2
mac80211              123258  1 ath5k
snd_intel8x0m           8100  0
snd_intel8x0           19523  1
ttm                    33378  1 radeon
snd_ac97_codec         79148  2 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0
ath                     6014  1 ath5k
drm_kms_helper         18305  1 radeon
ac97_bus                 710  1 snd_ac97_codec
pcmcia                 17442  0
cfg80211               87601  3 ath5k,mac80211,ath
snd_pcm                47214  3 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec
btusb                   7997  2
drm                   112020  4 radeon,ttm,drm_kms_helper
snd_seq                35463  0
yenta_socket           16403  3
bluetooth              36327  9 sco,bnep,rfcomm,l2cap,btusb
led_class               1757  1 ath5k
rsrc_nonstatic          7057  1 yenta_socket
tpm_tis                 5496  0
i2c_algo_bit            3497  1 radeon
snd_timer              12258  2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
rfkill                 10264  3 cfg80211,bluetooth
pcmcia_core            20450  3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
i2c_i801                6462  0
tpm                     8137  1 tpm_tis
smsc_ircc2              8891  0
snd_seq_device          3673  1 snd_seq
tpm_bios                3569  1 tpm
wmi                     3575  0
parport_pc             15799  0
i2c_core               12696  5 radeon,drm_kms_helper,drm,i2c_algo_bit,i2c_i801
rng_core                2178  0
shpchp                 21220  0
parport                22554  1 parport_pc
snd                    34363  9 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pc
m,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
video                  14605  0
joydev                  6771  0
pci_hotplug            18065  1 shpchp
pcspkr                  1207  0
soundcore               3450  1 snd
irda                   75920  1 smsc_ircc2
output                  1204  1 video
serio_raw               2916  0
evdev                   5609  11
snd_page_alloc          5045  3 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
ac                      1640  0
processor              26599  1
container               1833  0
battery                 3782  0
crc_ccitt               1039  1 irda
psmouse                44653  0
button                  3598  0
squashfs               16647  1
loop                    9757  2
aufs                  107674  1
nls_utf8                 908  1
isofs                  24608  1
ide_generic              801  0 [permanent]
ide_core               59618  1 ide_generic
sg                     15968  0
sr_mod                 10770  1
sd_mod                 25869  2
crc_t10dif              1012  1 sd_mod
cdrom                  26487  1 sr_mod
ata_generic             2019  0
fan                     2586  0
ata_piix               17640  2
uhci_hcd               16057  0
tg3                    88273  0
libata                115665  2 ata_generic,ata_piix
thermal                 9206  0
ehci_hcd               27763  0
floppy                 40923  0
libphy                 11638  1 tg3
thermal_sys             9378  4 video,processor,fan,thermal
scsi_mod              101401  4 sg,sr_mod,sd_mod,libata
usbcore                98402  4 btusb,uhci_hcd,ehci_hcd
nls_base                4541  3 nls_utf8,isofs,usbcore
crunchbang@crunchbang:/media/sda6/zz292z$ ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:14:38:06:e7:dd 
          inet addr:192.168.0.100  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::214:38ff:fe06:e7dd/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:5 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:32 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:1044 (1.0 KiB)  TX bytes:7060 (6.8 KiB)
          Interrupt:11

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback 
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:12:79:40:66:65 
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

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Re: extra drivers during install? - was (Issue backing up to Statler)

I'm sorry I have no idea what to do now. But I know the following:
- there is a version of apt-get to use cd-mediums as source so you could install the driver from there (HOW???)
- there are many other wise people here on the forum: to make them recognize your thread I suggest changing the title to "plz help me install driver from cd" or something similar which describes your actual problem as precise and short as possible.
cheers
luc

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Re: extra drivers during install? - was (Issue backing up to Statler)

Luc,
ok, ta for help, how do I rename this thread? Can't see any options etc. for this anywhere.

regards Nigel

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Re: extra drivers during install? - was (Issue backing up to Statler)

I found out how. smile

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Re: extra drivers during install? - was (Issue backing up to Statler)

nogg321 wrote:

Luc,
ok, ta for help, how do I rename this thread? Can't see any options etc. for this anywhere.

regards Nigel

Edit your first post and change the title.

Note: ** Please read before posting **

BTW if you wish to contact me, send me an e-mail instead of a PM.
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Re: extra drivers during install? - was (Issue backing up to Statler)

thanks for that

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Re: extra drivers during install? - was (Issue backing up to Statler)

info for all...
Just tried to install statler 2 on HP DV2500 and it also stopped saying non-free ethernet (different type)
so I said yes to install it and left it. Because it's a lot faster than the nc6000 it eventually carried on and
must have installed it cos its working

Moral: it just doesn't give a clue as to what it is doing!

will try again on nc6000 and leave for a couple of hours this time. Funny cos it's usually lightning quick
under 904 but both laptops just give a blue screen and then no obvious activity!

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Re: extra drivers during install? - was (Issue backing up to Statler)

Hello All

Yup, when installing onto this thinkpad T42 without an internet connection of any kind. it invites me to supply the firmware for the wireless card. I just clicked 'no' and carried on.

Wifi worked perfectly when install completed, as it did on the live disc.

Drivers must be on the CD somewhere, so perhaps an installer bug or path problem? (guessing)

Otherwise, thunderingly solid.

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Re: extra drivers during install? - was (Issue backing up to Statler)

I had a similar problem during install on my vaio tz11 ...

I tried saying "no" when asked for the wireless-driver but the install did not complete properly - I do not
remember exactly how.

But I was lucky, to have another working system with an internet-connection, so I googled for the driver -  it was included in a
package called "firmware-iwlwifi_0.23_all.deb" for my intel iwl 3945 wireless card

I put it on an USB-Stick plugged it in and the driver was found automaticly
and this time the Statler Install worked easily!

hope that helps if someone has a similar problem.

Last edited by babouk (2010-09-03 21:23:55)

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