Have you use NETINSTALL AMD64 DEBIAN STABLE? When you write a cd-r use 4x as speed. After this check in your BIOS that it is NOT Activated UEFI.
Check again this configuration. Tell us for your progress. Carlo. 2013/11/19 Charlie <aries...@skymesh.com.au>: > > > 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 > -- 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/CAF-vDa_vnG=dfubobsx5hapn9xys8xp8wchv1pmbw8smiu3...@mail.gmail.com
