Following the previous installs on D505 or D510 machines, this time I tried to install Debian on a D810 machine of another collegue…
And that was a little bit painfull, and not everything works, but we have at least achieved a state where it seems to be usable in a desktop wired environment.
In addition to the steps I described for a D510, this time, other problems happened.
There is the problem of SATA support, which is solved in the 2.6.11 kernel from testing… but then you have problems since the network card is not properly supported (no tg3 driver). So unless you installed, when you were still in the 2.4 kernel, the necessary elements to recompile the braodcom driver (using bcm5700-source, I think), you’re in trouble 😉
But I’m afraid there would be problems too : the source package for the 2.6.11 kernels seem a little bit broken in testing…
So I took the definitive decision to install the 2.6.12 kernel from unstable, and finally everything (or almost everything) will work…
With testing and the 2.6.12 the testing package for the ipw2200 wifi driver won’t compile, etc… well other things from unstable may be necessary too… but I prefer to wait with testing until the 2.6.12 kernel comes with everything, to start over and reconfigure what’s still missing (wifi, bluetooth, etc.).
For a page describing the Debian installation on such a machine, you may refer to : http://tkrat.org/d810/
Note that the SATA problems now have a workaround… more details in the post about the D510…
Hi! I’m just starting to learn about Linux. I’m researching the compatibilty of my hardware right now. I heard Red Hat was good for beginners so I’m looking on their website. Just a couple questions..
1. I’m not finding anything about HD’s. Are they all supported then?
2. I did see some compatible motherboards.. Does that mean that certain motherboards aren’t going to work?
3. What ways (short of writing my own drivers) are available to work around incompatibilites with a particular Linux distribution? In other words, can you download drivers etc or is it not that simple?
4. I want to put it on its own excusive HD, and sometime after Christmas build a whole new computer for it from scratch. Am I going to have a lot of trouble with newer motherboards?(533MHz/Rambus/ATA 133)
Thanx
Well… I wouldn’t like to be rude… but what the f*ck is this generic question doing there… Well… stupid me : just a clever spam I suppose, just to get more hits on “Heather”‘s site… I removed the URL and keep it for your fun 😉