Hi, Folks --
I'm setting up an Acer Aspire 5250 as a Christmas gift, CentOS 6 netinstall insists on trying to configure wlan0 but I'm using a wired DSL connection, consequently netinstall fails and only offers the option to Retry.
How can I get it to bypass the wlan0 idea and go straight to eth0...?
Thanks,
Hi, Fabien --
Thanks. :-) I removed two screws that seemed to be holding a cover in place over the HD-and-memory compartment, but the cover remained pretty tightly in place anyway. Dunno what I'm missing -- but if there's a switch in this laptop I'd figure it must be in there. (?) Now what...
-- Jeff --
On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 09:34:10AM +0100, Fabien Archambault wrote:
Hi, John --
Thanks. :-) Looks like it'd be Fn + F3 on this one, but I suspect they set it up to work that way with Windows. There's no light to be seen anywhere, and pressing it made no difference to CentoOS netinstall.
-- Jeff --
On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 12:58:08AM -0800, John R Pierce wrote:
Vreme: 12/08/2011 10:38 AM, Jeff Gordon piše:
Netinstall will not be able to see the change while loaded. You should try changing on/off once, and the boot netinstall again.
On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 11:14:08AM +0100, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
Thanks. :-) As indicated in previous reply, it does appear NetworkManager receives the signal. HOWEVER, thanks to Tom I'm looking at progress messages at both available consoles, and here's what's being said:
INFO : going to pick interface ERROR : iBFT deosn't couldn't provide valid NIC MAC address INFO : only have one network device: wlan0
...which, while kind of an obscure message, at least tells me why I've never yet seen the DSL connection light come on with CentOS netinstall. I've done _two_ netinstalls of Debian on this machine, using eth0, but CentOS seems dissatisfied with it for some reason and won't use it.
That seems to mean I'll have to go back to Debian. (?)
On 12/09/2011 09:43 AM, Jeff Gordon wrote:
Hi there Jeff,
well I can only tell about the very early times of Linux with kernels below 1.00, around 20 years ago ... ;) Don't know how this is going to work with CentOS nowadays, my labor is just building yet. So, back to the context, there are three ways afaik though bringing CentOS up: 1) Loading the network module for your Acer after netinstall has come up from any device you can see until then, perhaps an USB drive. That might be the 'easiest' way. In former times this had to be done f.e. for SCSI-drivers via good old YaST ;) Of course you first have to download the driver with a running system from a CentOS-mirror. 2) Not using netinstall, but I guess you have no CDDROM built in. 3) Perhaps another solution could be first installing another system (debian?) and then creating a bootable device with all needed stuff on. Sorry for the only abstract description, I'm sure some freaks can give concreter hints.
Cheers, Bert.
Vreme: 12/09/2011 11:08 AM, Bert Koerperich piše:
Using USB DVD drive, and installing from installation DVD would solve this.
Once you install all needed packages/system, you can find the pci ID of the Ethernet NIC and download/install driver from ElRepo repository (www.elrepo.org).
Hi, Bert --
Thanks. :-) Doesn't seem to be an opportunity or way to open a console before this problem comes up, with netinstall. I just scanned to see if there might be a kernel parameter for it; doesn't seem to be.
-- Jeff --
On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 09:53:42AM +0100, Bert Koerperich wrote:
Hi, Tom --
Thanks. :-) Didn't work, though -- those key combinations got me to console screens but not with an actionable prompt. I tried typing commands into them anyway, but CentOS netinstall continued to try to talk to wlan0.
-- Jeff --
On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 10:30:58AM +0100, Tom De Vylder wrote:
Vreme: 12/08/2011 10:13 AM, Jeff Gordon piše:
Jeff, can you please write bellow our responses? So we can follow your thread from up to down not jump up and down. thanks.
Do you have User Guide Manual for your Notebook? Here it is:
http://global-download.acer.com/GDFiles/Document/QuickStartGuide/QuickStartG...
On page 7 it says:
<Fn> + <F3> Communication Enables/disables the computer’s communication devices.
<Fn> key is blue and on lower left side of the keyboard.
There should be 3-4-presses cycle. It will turn on and off both WiFi and Bluethooth (if installed) devices and, individually and both at the same time.
On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 11:06:18AM +0100, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
Thanks. :-) Sorry about the order of responses, there are parts of cyberspace where "top-quoting" is a major faux pas.
There are no indicator lights on the machine, so it's pretty much trial-and-error on those keypresses. Thanks to Tom, though, I've been able to see a message at one of the consoles that at first says "unrecognized keypress" but soon thereafter says something like "wlan switched off" (per NetworkManager).
No joy yet, though -- problem seems to be something else; see next reply for more details on that.
On 12/08/2011 08:11 AM, Jeff Gordon wrote:
how do you know that ? ( not being pedantic, just want to confirm what sign / status you see that confirms its using the wlan0 ? )
How can I get it to bypass the wlan0 idea and go straight to eth0...?
the installer will give you a choice as to what network interface you want to use, if you are not seeing that its possible the installer does not see the second interface at all. If you are certain that the interface is indeed up and running, you can specify the ksdevice=<MAC> on the boot line, and force it to use a specific eth interface.
- KB
On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 01:38:04PM +0000, Karanbir Singh wrote:
I am trying to remember how this went on my Acer. Firstly, the hardware switch for the wireless is probably on the front. It doesn't give any sign that it's on or off, you move it to one side, then release and try this a few times.
The light, depending upon the model of card, might only work with Windows, though I think more recent editions of Fedora and Ubuntu _might_ show that it works or doesn't. My memory is hazy there.
There should be, possibly in the lower left, an option to configure network. It's also possible that the button is offscreen.
My guess, if it's really not giving the option to use the wired ethernet, is that KB's thought is the case, that for some reason, it's simply not seeing the wired ethernet card.
Coming into this late.... Scott Robbins wrote:
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<snip> This is my first thought, also. I've not dealt with an Acer - my laptops from work for years have been Dells, and they have a tiny switch that turns wireless on and off, and I *have* to turn it off to get it to use the cable.
mark
On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 09:05:23AM -0500, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Thanks, Mark. If there's a switch on this one they've hidden or disguised it really, really well. :-) I think it was designed with Windows 7 users in mind.
On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 01:38:04PM +0000, Karanbir Singh wrote:
Hi, KB --
As I've just sent to the list in reply to someone else, at the console I'm seeing, "iBFT doesn't couldn't provide valid NIC MAC address", so CentOS is trying to configure wlan0 because it believes that's all it's got, even though Debian installed fine via eth0. (?)
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