Installing Debian on Dell M1210
| Component | Status | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Intel Core Duo Processor | OK | Requires SMP kernel |
| Row heading A | Cell B | Cell C |
Base installation
Booting debian netinst from USB drive
Debian Installer Etch beta 3 release
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.
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
Write here your solution SATA issue....
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
auto eth2 iface eth2 inet dhcp
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.
