New Debian user - 3 problems
 

Hello all,

I've just installed Debian 6.0.3 on my Dell XPS L502X, and I'm having 3 initial problems:

1. My wireless doesn't work. Previously I had backtrack installed and wireless worked fine. I don't know how to proceed. With lspci and ifconfig commands I have the outputs (respectively):

:~# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Sandy Bridge DRAM Controller (rev 09)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Sandy Bridge PCI Express Root Port (rev 09)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Sandy Bridge Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Cougar Point HECI Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Cougar Point USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 (rev 05)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Cougar Point High Definition Audio Controller (rev 05)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Cougar Point PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev b5)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Cougar Point PCI Express Root Port 2 (rev b5)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Cougar Point PCI Express Root Port 4 (rev b5)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Cougar Point PCI Express Root Port 5 (rev b5)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Cougar Point PCI Express Root Port 6 (rev b5)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Cougar Point USB Enhanced Host Controller #1 (rev 05)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Cougar Point LPC Controller (rev 05)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Cougar Point 6 port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 05)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation Cougar Point SMBus Controller (rev 05)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Device 0df4 (rev a1)
03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Device 008a (rev 34)
04:00.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation uPD720200 USB 3.0 Host Controller (rev 04)
06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 06)

~# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 84:8f:69:b5:01:79
inet addr:192.168.0.105 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::868f:69ff:feb5:179/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:17578 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:14078 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:17223276 (16.4 MiB) TX bytes:1995656 (1.9 MiB)
Interrupt:30 Base address:0x2000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:560 (560.0 B) TX bytes:560 (560.0 B)


2. Sound doesn't work. With other distros (like backtrack) it worked fine;

3. I don't know how to change my screen resolution. It all looks stretched...

Thanks very much.

3.

Hi,

Okay, the resolution, there I can (maybe) help. You may need to help X a little by setting up a new /etc/X11/xorg.conf, read this article for more info...it is for free BSD, but should apply on Debian as well...

Sound, okay, let's see what's on the box, issue lshw and post the "multimedia' section here...

Oh, and by the way, you double-posted this one, dont... ;) one scream will suffice :)

And, benvindo aqui...

Thor

Do you know what wireless card is in there? I'm guessing it is one of two problems (same with the sound): 1) the kernel in Debian 6 (Squeeze) is 2.6.32 and the driver for those devices is not part of the main kernel at that time or 2) you need install the package firmware-linux-nonfree.

For #1, you can build your own kernel, dist-upgrade to wheezy (testing distribution - which is surprisingly stable despite its name), or install a newer kernel from squeeze-backports.

For #2, make sure your /etc/apt/sources.list file has "non-free" included and then just aptitude install firmware-linux-nonfree.

I don't know about your graphics. It looks like you have two VGA controllers, an Intel Sandy Bridge (which IIRC takes a newer kernel), and an "nVidia compatible" which would probably require the nVidia drivers.

The part in bold is your wireless card and looking at Debian Packages your wireless card driver is in non-free. so you will need to enable non-free and if you are connected to a wired connection download via synaptic the package firmware-realtek, also make sure you have wireless-tools installed.

P.S. You should only post your problem once, you have posted this twice in the same forum section.

Hello,

Sorry for the double-post...

As for lshw, here goes the output:

*-multimedia
description: Audio device
product: Cougar Point High Definition Audio Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1b
bus info: pci@0000:00:1b.0
version: 05
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=HDA Intel latency=0
resources: irq:22 memory:f1c00000-f1c03fff

I'll start right now to read the article!

Thanks friend!

1) Wireless start here: WiFi - Debian Wiki : http://wiki.debian.org/WiFi
2) Sound ALSA - Debian Wiki : http://wiki.debian.org/ALSA or my blog post here on lq.org about fixing sound
3) for the video see :Debian Wiki : http://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDeb...7C%28bridge%29

Not the same computer, but it has info about the Sandy Bridge.

I've posted about his wireless issue in his other (identical) thread.

Merge note
 

You should be as it is not the first time you did that. These two recent threads are merged now, as are three(!) same topic threads in the Slackware forum.
Please do not cross-post threads and questions again.

No, it is not, it clearly states that this is the Ethernet device. The wireless device is this one:It is an Intel Centrino Wireless-N 1030, the driver for this device is available in kernel 2.6.36 or higher, or from the Intel website.

Ah thanks for that, my mistake.