[Bug 479597] Re: HP Mini 311 - Does not always boot

Wed May 5 06:31:16 UTC 2010

woa, that is a lot of update information! :)  It sounds like your are enjoying some success (reliable boot up behavior, mouse works, located proprietary drivers).  So the issue remaining is configuring the wireless connectivity properly??  Is there a GUI to help you configure the WLAN rather than using the command terminal?  I was able to use the GUI to configure my connections.  I am a new convert to linux so I am not up to speed on their version of ipconfig or I would be able to help you with more detail.

> Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 05:15:53 +0000
> From: mtigges at gmail.com
> To: npayne12 at hotmail.com
> Subject: [Bug 479597] Re: HP Mini 311 - Does not always boot
> 
> Sorry to add so many messages to this thread, just wanted to give an
> update, and hopefully, and more knowledgable soul can help
> 
> I added these three lines to blacklist.conf
> 
>   blacklist ssb
>   blacklist b43
>   blacklist b43-pci-bridge
> 
> It still hangs on boot.  I eventually was able to get it to boot with
> enough tries.
> 
>   lsmod | grep b43
> 
> Shows nothing ... but ssb is still running.  During the boot it still
> hangs at the same normal place (when it does most times).
> 
> The most recent reboot the mouse is  working ... not sure why this time,
> and not others.
> 
> And the latest is .........
> 
> I installed the STA drivers from broadcom and the machine came up with
> no problems.   Unfortunately, I haven't been able to get the wireless
> working.  I have a valid wpa_supplicant.conf file,
> 
> When I run wpa_supplicant -dd it just keeps timing out and attempting
> the scan again.
> 
> I noticed with the new drivers that my interface is now eth1 for the
> wireless card, and not wlan0.  The big difference I've found  is that I
> don't seem to be able set the essid, whenever I run iwconfig it also
> shows the essid as empty, no matter how many times I run "sudo iwconfig
> eth1 essid <name>"
> 
> Has anyone else seen that or know what the problem might be?
> 
> FOR UBUNTU NEWBS like me ... in order to install the sta drivers 'sudo
> apt-get install broadcom-sta-common' or, at least in netbook remix I
> found a dialog accessable from the main status bar through an icon at
> the top right.  It's not there now though after a reboot.  It brought up
> a Proprietary Drivers dialog though that enabled me to select the
> broadcom sta driver, and some others, I chose the NVIDIA ION driver too.
> I'll get around to testing that later.  I believe you can get the same
> dialog through System -> Administration -> Hardware Drivers
> 
> Oh, and the mouse is still working! lol.
> 
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> HP Mini 311 - Does not always boot
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> Status in The Linux Kernel: Unknown
> Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
> 
> Bug description:
> HP mini 311 came with Windows XP Home, now dual-booting that with Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic)
> 
> Windows always boots without issue
> Linux always boots reliably into rescue mode, but when booting normally, it sometimes hangs very soon after grub (before the Ubuntu logo appears). When this happens, there is a black screen with a cursor in the top left. Power-cycling and booting into recovery mode, then resetting and booting normally, appears to resolve the issue.
> 
> If you need copies of logs, please let me know - I didn't know which logs would be relevant.
> 
> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: i386
> ArecordDevices:
>  **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
>  card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog]
>    Subdevices: 2/2
>    Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
>    Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
> AudioDevicesInUse:
>  USER        PID ACCESS COMMAND
>  /dev/snd/controlC0:  russ       1612 F.... pulseaudio
> CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
> Card0.Amixer.info:
>  Card hw:0 'NVidia'/'HDA NVidia at 0x53100000 irq 21'
>    Mixer name	: 'Nvidia MCP7A HDMI'
>    Components	: 'HDA:111d7605,103c3651,00100402 HDA:10de0007,10de0101,00100100'
>    Controls      : 30
>    Simple ctrls  : 17
> Date: Mon Nov  9 22:17:42 2009
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
> HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=59e4f76d-25fa-419f-a263-7b4ff87304ee
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
> IwConfig:
>  lo        no wireless extensions.
>  
>  eth0      no wireless extensions.
>  
>  pan0      no wireless extensions.
> MachineType: Hewlett-Packard Compaq Mini 311-1000
> Package: linux-image-2.6.31-14-generic 2.6.31-14.48
> ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic root=UUID=d1d7bad9-e914-4c19-ada9-35ca400ffae7 ro quiet splash
> ProcEnviron:
>  LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
>  SHELL=/bin/bash
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
> RelatedPackageVersions:
>  linux-backports-modules-2.6.31-14-generic N/A
>  linux-firmware 1.24
> RfKill:
>  0: hci0: Bluetooth
>  	Soft blocked: no
>  	Hard blocked: no
> SourcePackage: linux
> Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
> XsessionErrors:
>  (gnome-settings-daemon:1627): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
>  (gnome-settings-daemon:1627): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
>  (nautilus:1685): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
>  (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1710): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
> dmi.bios.date: 08/04/2009
> dmi.bios.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
> dmi.bios.version: F.02
> dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag
> dmi.board.name: 3651
> dmi.board.vendor: Quanta
> dmi.board.version: 49.14
> dmi.chassis.type: 10
> dmi.chassis.vendor: Quanta
> dmi.chassis.version: N/A
> dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnHewlett-Packard:bvrF.02:bd08/04/2009:svnHewlett-Packard:pnCompaqMini311-1000:pvr0395100000001C00000300000:rvnQuanta:rn3651:rvr49.14:cvnQuanta:ct10:cvrN/A:
> dmi.product.name: Compaq Mini 311-1000
> dmi.product.version: 0395100000001C00000300000
> dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
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