T42 Laptop install - 100% success 'out of the box'. Now just need wifi...

Forum thread started by Meta4 on Sat, 2011-11-12 19:43

Hi folks,

I found my old BeOS 4.5 boxed CD set in the attic, and that got me to thinking and doing a bit of research. So, found Haiku, downloaded, burned, and tried it on an old IBM T42 laptop I had hanging around.

To say I was amazed that everything worked is an understatement!! Sound, ethernet... *everything*!

Great work guys :)

I won't lie, I had a bit of fun hunting down the Boot Manager (as just installing Haiku doesn't make it boot!) but got there in the end,

So, can anyone recommend a PCMCIA wireless card that you know for certain works?

Thanks

Meta4

PS: This post was made using WebPositive :)

Comments

Re: T42 Laptop install - 100% success 'out of the box'. Now ...

by Jttyhjyfhfxvciy... - 2011-11-12 21:31

Did you install Alpha 3? Newer nightly builds should have working wifi. PCMCIA is not supported by Haiku.

Re: T42 Laptop install - 100% success 'out of the box'. Now ...

by clasqm - 2011-11-13 09:21

I see there is a new one: r43238. Can anyone confirm that it actually boots up? The last several nightlies I've tried refused to boot: in VBox, on bare silicone, anything. I'm on a metered connection and downloading these things is getting costly.

Re: T42 Laptop install - 100% success 'out of the box'. Now ...

by humdinger - 2011-11-13 17:19

Michel wrote:

I see there is a new one: r43238. Can anyone confirm that it actually boots up?

I've been running that exact revision for a day now and just finished installing it to my netbook. Finally the intel extreme driver works again nicely on this Samsung NC10 with i945 graphics. HDA sound and Atheros wireless works just like it did before.

Go for it, Michel! :)

Regards,
Humdinger

Re: T42 Laptop install - 100% success 'out of the box'. Now ...

by ribbonz - 2011-11-13 18:54

Michel wrote:

I just downloaded and booted r43238 (anyboot image). It's working great so far.

Well, actually, I did screw it up the first time. I copied to the USB stick with this command:

dd if=r43238 of=/dev/disk/usb/1/0/0 bs=1M

and when I tried to boot from it, all I got was this at boot time:

Installing System...
Installing System...
Installing System...
...
{infinite loop}

Then I went back and looked at what I had done and remembered that you have to write to the raw device and not a partition. *slaps hand against head*

Changed to of=/dev/disk/usb/1/0/raw and it booted perfectly. Oh well, it had been awhile since I had installed a nightly -- forgot an important detail. And boy is it an important detail.

Btw, the boot screen has the Haiku logo back in. Yay!!!! The last few nightlies I had tried awhile back were missing the logo during bootup, which was a real bummer.

I did have to do
installoptionalpackage WebPositive

to get WebPositive back on track. Other than that, no problems. Everything seems to be running well.

Incidentally, was something done/fixed with regards to the About System box? It seems to be much faster now. Previously, every time I clicked to bring it up, I had to wait several seconds before it would display -- it was getting really slow. Now it's popping up right away. Much better.

Re: T42 Laptop install - 100% success 'out of the box'. Now ...

by Meta4 - 2011-11-13 18:59

Yes, downloaded Alpha 3 ISO, burned and installed. I'll read up about get the latest nightly build.

If a PCMCIA wifi card is out of the question, can anyone recommend an USB wifi dongle/adpater/stick/thing? :)

Thanks

Re: T42 Laptop install - 100% success 'out of the box'. Now ...

by Jttyhjyfhfxvciy... - 2011-11-13 22:37

Meta4 wrote:

Yes, downloaded Alpha 3 ISO, burned and installed. I'll read up about get the latest nightly build.

Download an iso from http://www.haiku-files.org/haiku/development/

Meta4 wrote:

If a PCMCIA wifi card is out of the question, can anyone recommend an USB wifi dongle/adpater/stick/thing? :)

USB network adapters are also not supported.

Re: T42 Laptop install - 100% success 'out of the box'. Now ...

by clasqm - 2011-11-15 05:57

Well, I have now downloaded the r43238 anyboot and burned it twice. Once under OSX and once under Windows. I've also burnt the ISO once.

Three coasters later, the result is the same: Boot Loader Death Land.

dd'ing the anyboot to a USB stick is slightly better: the boot icons show up, followed by a black screen.

OK, these are nightlies, I accept that. But I REALLY hope this gets fixed before the next release.