Trying to install Debian on this lappy and keep hitting a brick wall.
The same message with the Jessie or Wheezy netinstall iso or the first Install DVD of Jessie or Wheezy: "No kernel modules were found. This probably is due to a mismatch between the kernel used by this version of the installer and the kernel version in the archive." Then I continue because this can be rectified once a mirror has been chosen and there is no Ethernet card found, and there is no wireless option when looking for network hardware? So that's the brick wall. I have the installer search a USB stick that has every kind of realtek and every other driver I can find, but no joy. I have tried it with different wireless dongles which aren't even recognised. Just no Ethernet, never wireless. I also get the error message: Loading amd64-microcode failed for unknown reasons. Aborting. The Ethernet device is RTL8101E/RTL8102E Fast Internet controller. The wireless device is Device 8179 9 (rev 01) I even rang Toshiba but they told me they didn't support Linux and couldn't point me to any drivers. Yet I read on the net during my drilling down looking for drivers, that someone had emailed Toshiba and they had emailed him drivers for his Ethernet card. No joy there for me. Can't even find their email address. Just on the off chance, has anyone had any success with installing Debian on this machine? Ubuntu 10 live runs on it but doesn't recognise the network cards either. [laughing] I recall reading a blog of a Debian developer/programmer some years ago writing that he wondered why he stayed with Linux, when it was all such a struggle, when in windows it all just works. I can identify with that at the moment. Though to be fair, In the past I have just bought a laptop, formatted the hard drive and install one or another flavour of current Debian of the time without any worries. :-) Maybe it's time I get accustomed to working with windows? At the moment it's all interesting, but that's been for the last 5 days, it will soon wear off I think. Anyway, just in case anyone has one of these laptops working. TIA Charlie -- Registered Linux User:- 329524 *********************************************** All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher. --Ambrose Bierce *********************************************** Debian GNU/Linux - just the best way to create magic ----------------------------------------------------- -- 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/20131119203437.4a789e22@nomad