Avoid the mistake I made. Along with your install media, get all the firmware drivers for your flavor of hardware and have them on hand expecting to use them to install your system. I didn't earlier and couldn't wipe windows vista off a dell laptop. Some ambiguity in terms of firmware requirements might be resolved if the installer program for debian told the user if there was any hardware for which no debian firmware exists and also told the installer in the other case that package's x and y are needed and once these become available system installation should not have any further missing firmware issues. My case with the intel dell laptop was that non-free drivers were needed and the installer couldn't get them but I didn't find out which packages to download from the installer. What I may do the next time I take a crack at that laptop is to find and use the firmware distribution of debian iso if it still exists, if that can come up talking when I do the install.
On Mon, 11 Nov 2013, Neal Murphy wrote: > On Monday, November 11, 2013 09:28:26 PM Jon N wrote: > > Neal, > > > > Well, I think you've found my weak point. I have been looking at > > fairly new stuff. When shopping for processors I found there was > > little difference in price between Intel's Haswell verses Ivy Bridge > > (at least for Pentiums, which what I'm thinking of getting). So the > > mainboards have new chipsets (either H81 or H87). Is the chipset an > > issue? > > It can be. If the chipset isn't supported, the kernel mayn't know to or know > how to walk the device tree, or simply know how, to initialize all the buses, > bridges, and devices. Alas, I was unable to find any document anywhere that > states which chipsets (even just the 20 newest) that a kernel supports when I > looked 2-4 years ago. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- jude <jdash...@shellworld.net> Avoid the Gates Of Hell, use Linux! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/alpine.bsf.2.01.1311120032230.58...@freire1.furyyjbeyq.arg
