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 for the SATA & CD driver 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 (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.
