Unable to Install Toshiba Tecra A4?

[Jerome Gotangco]

On 8/26/05, Greg Taylor <gtaylor at clemson.edu> wrote:
> I was just wondering if any of you Toshiba testers were having trouble
> with getting Hoary to install on your laptops. I'm having all sorts of
> issues with getting my network card to work. The Tecra A4 has a switch
> on the front to enable/disable the wireless interface. I've tried both
> on/off, acpi on and off, various other install flags, and it still keeps
> either thinking the wireless card is on or can't see anything at all as
> far as NICs go. I skipped network configuration and completed the
> install, restarted, and of course it locked up on boot at the hotplug
> startup.

The killswitch is *supposed* to work in Colony 3 as it did in my
experience with a Tecra M2 and an old Satellite. What could confuse
the user though is that if the killswitch is turned off during setup,
it would insist that it be turned on. You won't be able to associate
with an AP if it has WEP because of an authentication issue (#14007),
dmesg would say that it doesn't want the killswitch at all (doing the
workaround in the bug thread fixes it.)

> I'm downloading/burning the latest Breezy build. I see that we aren't
> supposed to post (" Don't file any bugs at this point.") for I assume
> Hoary. But I will need to for Breezy if I run into the same problem?

Run Breezy Colony 3 and see if you encounter problems. We are focusing
on the development release. Daily snapshots will also do.