3.4a on Dell Inspirion B120

[trmentry]

I've been banging my head on trying to get 3.4a onto my son's laptop. The install goes hangs at around 90% during the copy and for the life of me I can't figure out why. On a whime I tried Kubuntu and it installed fine, but don't really want to use that. Would rather use Sabayon.

Second issue is I can't seem to get the wireless working on the livecd when messing around with it on his laptop. Its a Broadcom BCM4318 Airefoce One 54g. I enter my ssid and WPA-Personal (TKIP) key and it hangs at 28% then fails.

I saw a post on loop3 about 'removing all 80211 and just adding in the bcm43xx' but wasn't fully understanding that.

can someone plz give me some pointers on the right direction to get my son converted over to sabayon?

TIA

[Dark_MaGe]

mmm...for the first problem supposing you've checked md5sum I think it's a matter of a bad dvd disk or dvd reader/burner...check for scratches on it or change brand of dvd disks, for the secondo problem post a tail -n 50 /var/log/messages while it's stuck at 28%

[trmentry]

mmm...for the first problem supposing you've checked md5sum I think it's a matter of a bad dvd disk or dvd reader/burner...check for scratches on it or change brand of dvd disks, for the secondo problem post a tail -n 50 /var/log/messages while it's stuck at 28%

Thank you for the quick reply.

I checked the md5sum and they matched. I downloaded from the Torrent. I will try and reburn from another computer to see if that helps.

In the meantime, here is the tail you requested. This is from the livecd since no os on the laptop yet.

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Jul 26 10:04:37 sabayonx86 NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (wlan0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) complete.
Jul 26 10:04:37 sabayonx86 NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (wlan0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) starting...
Jul 26 10:04:37 sabayonx86 NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (wlan0/wireless): access point 'devilsden' is encrypted, and a key exists.  No new key needed.
Jul 26 10:04:41 sabayonx86 NetworkManager: <info>  SUP: sending command 'INTERFACE_ADD wlan0      wext   /var/run/wpa_supplicant   '
Jul 26 10:04:41 sabayonx86 NetworkManager: <info>  SUP: response was 'OK'
Jul 26 10:04:41 sabayonx86 NetworkManager: <info>  SUP: sending command 'AP_SCAN 1'
Jul 26 10:04:41 sabayonx86 NetworkManager: <info>  SUP: response was 'OK'
Jul 26 10:04:41 sabayonx86 NetworkManager: <info>  SUP: sending command 'ADD_NETWORK'
Jul 26 10:04:41 sabayonx86 NetworkManager: <info>  SUP: response was '0'
Jul 26 10:04:41 sabayonx86 NetworkManager: <info>  SUP: sending command 'SET_NETWORK 0 ssid 646576696c7364656e'
Jul 26 10:04:41 sabayonx86 NetworkManager: <info>  SUP: response was 'OK'
Jul 26 10:04:41 sabayonx86 NetworkManager: <info>  SUP: sending command 'SET_NETWORK 0 scan_ssid 1'
Jul 26 10:04:41 sabayonx86 NetworkManager: <info>  SUP: response was 'OK'
Jul 26 10:04:41 sabayonx86 NetworkManager: <info>  SUP: sending command 'SET_NETWORK 0 proto WPA'
Jul 26 10:04:41 sabayonx86 NetworkManager: <info>  SUP: response was 'OK'
Jul 26 10:04:41 sabayonx86 NetworkManager: <info>  SUP: sending command 'SET_NETWORK 0 key_mgmt WPA-PSK'
Jul 26 10:04:41 sabayonx86 NetworkManager: <info>  SUP: response was 'OK'
Jul 26 10:04:41 sabayonx86 NetworkManager: <info>  SUP: sending command 'SET_NETWORK 0 psk <key>'
Jul 26 10:04:41 sabayonx86 NetworkManager: <info>  SUP: response was 'OK'
Jul 26 10:04:41 sabayonx86 NetworkManager: <info>  SUP: sending command 'SET_NETWORK 0 pairwise TKIP'
Jul 26 10:04:41 sabayonx86 NetworkManager: <info>  SUP: response was 'OK'
Jul 26 10:04:41 sabayonx86 NetworkManager: <info>  SUP: sending command 'SET_NETWORK 0 group TKIP'
Jul 26 10:04:41 sabayonx86 NetworkManager: <info>  SUP: response was 'OK'
Jul 26 10:04:41 sabayonx86 NetworkManager: <info>  SUP: sending command 'ENABLE_NETWORK 0'
Jul 26 10:04:41 sabayonx86 NetworkManager: <info>  SUP: response was 'OK'
Jul 26 10:04:41 sabayonx86 NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (wlan0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) complete.
Jul 26 10:04:46 sabayonx86 NetworkManager: <info>  Old device 'wlan0' activating, won't change.
Jul 26 10:04:49 sabayonx86 sudo: sabayonuser : TTY=pts/1 ; PWD=/home/sabayonuser ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/bin/tail -50 /var/log/messages
Jul 26 10:04:52 sabayonx86 NetworkManager: <info>  Old device 'wlan0' activating, won't change.
Jul 26 10:04:58 sabayonx86 NetworkManager: <info>  Old device 'wlan0' activating, won't change.
Jul 26 10:05:04 sabayonx86 NetworkManager: <info>  Old device 'wlan0' activating, won't change.
Jul 26 10:05:10 sabayonx86 NetworkManager: <info>  Old device 'wlan0' activating, won't change.
Jul 26 10:05:16 sabayonx86 NetworkManager: <info>  Old device 'wlan0' activating, won't change.
Jul 26 10:05:22 sabayonx86 NetworkManager: <info>  Old device 'wlan0' activating, won't change.
Jul 26 10:05:28 sabayonx86 NetworkManager: <info>  Old device 'wlan0' activating, won't change.
Jul 26 10:05:32 sabayonx86 sudo: sabayonuser : TTY=pts/1 ; PWD=/home/sabayonuser ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/bin/tail -50 /var/log/messages
Jul 26 10:05:35 sabayonx86 NetworkManager: <info>  Old device 'wlan0' activating, won't change.
Jul 26 10:05:40 sabayonx86 NetworkManager: <info>  Old device 'wlan0' activating, won't change.
Jul 26 10:05:41 sabayonx86 NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (wlan0/wireless): association took too long (>60s), failing activation.
Jul 26 10:05:41 sabayonx86 NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (wlan0) failure scheduled...
Jul 26 10:05:41 sabayonx86 NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (wlan0) failed for access point (devilsden)
Jul 26 10:05:41 sabayonx86 NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (wlan0) failed.
Jul 26 10:05:41 sabayonx86 NetworkManager: <info>  Deactivating device wlan0.
Jul 26 10:05:42 sabayonx86 [  130.478678] ssb: Switching to ChipCommon core, index 0
Jul 26 10:05:42 sabayonx86 [  130.478691] ssb: Switching to IEEE 802.11 core, index 1
Jul 26 10:06:06 sabayonx86 [  132.166493] bcm43xx_mac80211: Loading firmware version 351.126 (2006-07-29 05:54:02)
Jul 26 10:06:06 sabayonx86 [  132.166506] ssb: Switching to ChipCommon core, index 0
Jul 26 10:06:06 sabayonx86 [  132.166514] ssb: Switching to IEEE 802.11 core, index 1
Jul 26 10:06:06 sabayonx86 [  132.409618] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
Jul 26 10:06:18 sabayonx86 sudo: sabayonuser : TTY=pts/1 ; PWD=/home/sabayonuser ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/bin/tail -50 /var/log/messages


[Dark_MaGe]

from http://bcm43xx.berlios.de/?go=devices

4318 PCI/Cardbus Unstable (transmission power issues, work in progress)

no luck for you card....so ndiswrapper is the only solution...

[trmentry]

from http://bcm43xx.berlios.de/?go=devices

4318 PCI/Cardbus Unstable (transmission power issues, work in progress)

no luck for you card....so ndiswrapper is the only solution...

Thank you for the info and help.
I did find this on the wiki in hopes of learning how to use the ndiswrapper.

http://www.sabayonlinux.org/wiki/index. ... th_Sabayon

and

http://www.sabayonlinux.org/wiki/index. ... yon_miniEd

Thanks again.