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{{HELP|This procedure is not working for me.  It successfully activates the wireless card, and my network manager detects the signal from the router (great!).  When I click to connect to this network, a progress bubble appears, reaches 28%, with the words "Activation stage: Configuring device."  The process halts there.  I have what I think is a kernel panic, although I guess it could be a hard xorg crash (mouse won't move, nothing changes on-screen, VTs refuse to appear, X zap doesn't work, etc.)  Anyone have a suggestion?}}
 
{{HELP|This procedure is not working for me.  It successfully activates the wireless card, and my network manager detects the signal from the router (great!).  When I click to connect to this network, a progress bubble appears, reaches 28%, with the words "Activation stage: Configuring device."  The process halts there.  I have what I think is a kernel panic, although I guess it could be a hard xorg crash (mouse won't move, nothing changes on-screen, VTs refuse to appear, X zap doesn't work, etc.)  Anyone have a suggestion?}}
  
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I'm can't get Gutsy Tribe 3 CD to boot on my new widescreen T61 with Intel graphics (1280x800).  Normal boot gives me an initramfs shell with no explanation, selecting VGA 1024x768x32 gives me a blank screen.
 
I'm can't get Gutsy Tribe 3 CD to boot on my new widescreen T61 with Intel graphics (1280x800).  Normal boot gives me an initramfs shell with no explanation, selecting VGA 1024x768x32 gives me a blank screen.
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The Alternative install CD is somewhat better, but once it gets to the actual installation step and installs xresprobe (IIRC) while showing about 9% of the progress bar, the screen suddenly goes blank.  I hope I can manage to finish the installation blindly.

Revision as of 19:13, 8 August 2007

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This procedure is not working for me. It successfully activates the wireless card, and my network manager detects the signal from the router (great!). When I click to connect to this network, a progress bubble appears, reaches 28%, with the words "Activation stage: Configuring device." The process halts there. I have what I think is a kernel panic, although I guess it could be a hard xorg crash (mouse won't move, nothing changes on-screen, VTs refuse to appear, X zap doesn't work, etc.) Anyone have a suggestion?

The iwl4965 driver (Version 0.42 I think) is now included with Gutsy, you might want to remove all the firmware you installed and then reinstall linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.22 and try that.

Cannot boot Tribe 3 with T61

I'm can't get Gutsy Tribe 3 CD to boot on my new widescreen T61 with Intel graphics (1280x800). Normal boot gives me an initramfs shell with no explanation, selecting VGA 1024x768x32 gives me a blank screen.

The Alternative install CD is somewhat better, but once it gets to the actual installation step and installs xresprobe (IIRC) while showing about 9% of the progress bar, the screen suddenly goes blank. I hope I can manage to finish the installation blindly.