On Sun, 18 Mar 2012, Bret Busby wrote:
On Sat, 17 Mar 2012, Brian wrote:
On Sun 18 Mar 2012 at 01:37:41 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
I do not know whether the firmware is faulty (the IPW firmware) or the
mirror settings within the downloaded netinst ISO, are bad.
But, it does not work.
If not a single mirror works for you it looks like a network problem.
Could you beef up on the previous 'IPW something or other'? Was firmware
asked for during the install? How did you provide it if it was? Any
chance of knowing what the card is and whether you set up the network
with DHCP? Cables plugged in tightly?
The IPW thing is the firmware required for the network adaptor. I think it is
IPW200 or something similar.
That is why I had to use the firmware instal, and the only way availabl;e, is
using the netinst ISO.
The instal process defaulted to setting up DHCP, but that did not work, as
the LAN here uses static IP addresses this side of the firewall/gateway
computer. I think that the modem/router uses DHCP, and it is thus DHCP from
the modem/router to the firewall/gateway computer, and the firewall/gateway
computer and everything this side of it, uses static IP addresses.
I checked the connections of the CAT5 cable between the NX500 (the laptop on
which I have been trying to instal Debian 6) and the switch to which it
connects (we are currently using two switches - one down this end of the
house, and, onte at the other end of the house, that services the laptop and
netbook and tablet computers.
The network adaptor in the NX5000, had worked without any problems, with
Ubuntu 8.04 and Debian 5 (I think it was Debian 5, rather than Debian 4, that
that computer had been running), previous to this installation attempt, and
my wife had been using the switych, earlier this evening, without any
problem, so the problem appears to be in the installation process.
I have found and looked at the specifications for the computer, which
are at
http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/11860_na/11860_na.HTML
apart from the new hard drive, which is now a 160GB Samsung, that I have
(hopefully, as it is part of the Debian 6 installation process, which
has not yet completed) partitioned into a number of partictions.
From the sp[ecifications, the IPW x200 firmware thing, is for a wireless
network device, and I do not use wireless stuff on computers, so it is
superfluous, anyway.
The WiFi/wireless device had, in a previous system build process, caused
interrupt conflicts, a few years ago, and I had had to resolve the
interrupt conflict using an operating system that I did not instal, and,
I think that, later, Ubuntu 8.04 overcame the interrupt conflict. I
found the WiFi stuff to be a real nuisance.
An option, in the installation process;
"
A wireless device has been found. Do you want to install drivers for
it, and be able to use it?
Yes ( )
No ( )
"
would be good.
I have no interest in using WiFi or any other wireless componments in my
computers, and so, installing any device drivers, or, being able to use
the wireless device, could have been happily bypassed, if the
installation process had provided an option for it to be bypassed.
I do not know whether the wireless stuff is the cause of the problem(s)
with the installation process (apart from the Debian 6 CD/DVD Creator
not creating a bootable DVD from the ISO image), but, as the
installation process appears to have enabled the dreaded wireless
network device, whilst I chose the eth0 (wired network card) for
configuring the network, I suppose it is possible that the reason that
the repositories mirrors cannot be accessed, is due to this wireless
network device, which has no device with which to communicate, and
therefore, could be simply "shouting into space", "with no-one to hear
it".
--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
..............
"So once you do know what the question actually is,
you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
A Trilogy In Four Parts",
written by Douglas Adams,
published by Pan Books, 1992
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