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Base installation

Booting debian netinst from USB drive

Debian Installer Etch beta 3 release

if you burn it on a CD and boot from it, you get the message "No common CD-ROM drive was detected" which makes it impossible to go further. The workaround I used is to boot from a USB stick (don't worry you will get your CDROM working later). Debian installer CD has some issues with the SATA and CD drivers that prevent installation to access to CD drive, I found some tips to solve that problem but they did't work for me. I installed it from my 256 MB USB drive. Setting up a USB drive installer

wget http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/\
main/installer-i386/current/images/hd-media/boot.img.gz
gzip -dc boot.img.gz >/dev/sdX

Enable USB drive boot from BIOS setup, and then Install Debian base system as usual.

Installing from CD

(Check) You can append libata.atapi_enabled=1 to the install or expert command lines at the boot prompt to get your cdrom detected and then be able to install from it. However, as Ryan Langseth pointed out to me, this only works for the daily builds of the installer;

Configuration

Repositories

Installing Core Duo kernel

apt-get install linux-image-2.6.16-2-686-smp
reboot

Suspend to RAM

Components

NVIDIA drivers

Wireless interface

1. Downloads

driver from http://ipw3945.sourceforge.net/ for example

wget http://ufpr.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ipw3945/ipw3945-1.1.0.tgz

ieee80211 subsystem from http://ieee80211.sourceforge.net/ for example

wget http://ufpr.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ieee80211/ieee80211-1.2.15.tgz

firmware from http://bughost.org/ipw3945/ for example

wget http://bughost.org/ipw3945/ucode/ipw3945-ucode-1.13.tgz

regulatory daemon from http://bughost.org/ipw3945/ for example

wget http://bughost.org/ipw3945/daemon/ipw3945d-1.7.22.tgz

2. Install some requisites for modules compilation

apt-get install linux-headers-2.6.16-2-686-smp
apt-get install gcc-4.0

3. Complile and install modules

tar -zxvf ieee80211-1.2.15.tgz
cd ieee80211-1.2.15
make
make install
cd ..
tar -zxvf ipw3945-1.1.0.tgz
cd ipw3945-1.1.0
make
mkdir /usr/local/lib/firmware/
tar zxvf ipw3945-ucode-1.13.tgz
cp ipw3945-ucode-1.13/ipw3945.ucode /usr/local/lib/firmware/
tar zxvf ipw3945d-1.7.22.tgz
cp ipw3945d-1.7.22/x86/ipw3945d /usr/local/sbin/
cd ipw3945-1.1.0
./load -ipw3945d=/usr/local/sbin/

4. /etc/network/interfaces (Change with your owns values)

iface eth2 inet dhcp
       wireless_essid accesspointname
       wireless_key off
       wireless_rate auto
       wireless_mode managed
       wireless_channel 6

5. Start interface

ifup eth2

References

• http://eomer.mine.nu/?q=node/18
• http://alidhaey.blogspot.com/2006/08/instalar-debian-etch-en-un-dell.html
• http://math.umh.ac.be/an/D820/#Wireless

Touchpad

Debian identified it as a regular mouse. However installing the xserver-xorg-input-synaptics package and using the "synaptics" driver in X.org works fine.

• http://web.telia.com/~u89404340/touchpad/

Modem

Ricoh Card Reader

DVD region unlock

WebCam

Driver: http://linux-uvc.berlios.de/

svn checkout http://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/linux-uvc/
cd linux-uvc/linux-uvc/trunk
make
sudo make install
modprobe uvcvideo
dmesg | tail

Notas:

• Only V4l2 is supported
• Add users to system group "video"

Referencias

• http://linux-uvc.berlios.de/
• http://www.eldemonionegro.com/wordpress/archivos/category/informatica/

References

• How-To: Setup Debian Linux Desktop with Full Multimedia Support and Faster Processing