johns
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Ok, so I am thinking about starting this project. I wanted to start with downloading Wheezy and installing it to my computer. I have an extra laptop that is not doing anything at the moment and I thought it would be an easy way to jump into this project,,,,,,,,,,,or not. I say not because after 2 days I have tried to get all the drivers to work on this OS and its been driving me crazy. I have looked at several YouTube videos, and spend about 10 hours reading about how to install the missing drivers all to no avail. Just cant figure it out. So its been frustrating to me to not see my computer working like it should.
Wheezy does not work. It works, but the wireless driver says its missing. HElP!!! This is not a computer board, but also there are several (or more than several) people on this thread could be useful in resolving this problem. The driver conflict is with the wireless driver. During the install it says that there needs to be a B43/udode15.fw B43-open/ucode15.fw file that needs to be loaded. Its very difficult to find. Upon reading more about it, just skipping this part and moving on seems to be the best alternative. Thinking here is to install it later with a wired connection, and it seemed like it would be harmless to do so. After letting it rip though the install Wheezy was finally up and running (missing the wireless driver). It looks like it could be a nice OS once a person gets use to it, and would be a nice alternative to windows 8 (which is not cool for me). However digressing, looking for a way to install this driver, several sites recommend two options. Ether using a software installer, or using something called a terminal, which looks to be nothing more than a dos prompt program. Having tried to do it both ways, and several of the other options on YouTube, there still is no success. The computer is a HP G550 computer, with Broadcom 4312 driver that needs to be installed. Relevant changes to the computer are that the file system has been changed from running windows vista to XP in the bios. This has never been changed back, but could be done easily, if need be. Another problem might be that looking at several sites and YouTubes are that other people have different computer systems and different Linux systems. Ubuntu, sees to be a popular one. Running Debian Wheezy is the one of choice for me, since this tread recommends it for setting up the fermentation controller Fuzzy set up here. Does anyone on this thread have a for sure foolproof method of installing this driver?
Further steps that could be taken might be reading the help guide, which is really kind of like a manual. It would be useful for no other reason, other than to become familiar with the operating system and its functionality. One step further, could quite possibly be resetting the file system in BIOS to accept the Vista file system. However I am not really sure any of these additional steps would really do anything. Also getting a new wireless adaptor would do the trick. I am confident of that. Reading somewhere that a wireless adaptor (cant thing of the name off the top of my head at the moment) that uses open source software would do the trick in getting to the next step. However for 26 dollars or something like that, it would be easier for me to get a Rpi and go that route, thus defeating the purpose of using the computer. Also another option would be just to scrap the whole project and use the STI controller, like the one being used on my keezer, but this project for me is much more interesting so that would be a last resort. Hopefully there is a solution somewhere on this thread, but hesitating to reread the whole 250+ pages of this thread is not appealing to me at the moment. So I hope someone can point me in the right direction or towards a solution to get over this hump of my build I would like to do. It seems like its there is an easy fix to it somewhere, and I am sure its right in front of my face, but maybe I am just too stupid to see it.
As a side note, it seriously drives me crazy when I cant figure something like this out .. I remember using dos prompts as an OS on CRT screens thats how really old I am ..UUGGGG
Wheezy does not work. It works, but the wireless driver says its missing. HElP!!! This is not a computer board, but also there are several (or more than several) people on this thread could be useful in resolving this problem. The driver conflict is with the wireless driver. During the install it says that there needs to be a B43/udode15.fw B43-open/ucode15.fw file that needs to be loaded. Its very difficult to find. Upon reading more about it, just skipping this part and moving on seems to be the best alternative. Thinking here is to install it later with a wired connection, and it seemed like it would be harmless to do so. After letting it rip though the install Wheezy was finally up and running (missing the wireless driver). It looks like it could be a nice OS once a person gets use to it, and would be a nice alternative to windows 8 (which is not cool for me). However digressing, looking for a way to install this driver, several sites recommend two options. Ether using a software installer, or using something called a terminal, which looks to be nothing more than a dos prompt program. Having tried to do it both ways, and several of the other options on YouTube, there still is no success. The computer is a HP G550 computer, with Broadcom 4312 driver that needs to be installed. Relevant changes to the computer are that the file system has been changed from running windows vista to XP in the bios. This has never been changed back, but could be done easily, if need be. Another problem might be that looking at several sites and YouTubes are that other people have different computer systems and different Linux systems. Ubuntu, sees to be a popular one. Running Debian Wheezy is the one of choice for me, since this tread recommends it for setting up the fermentation controller Fuzzy set up here. Does anyone on this thread have a for sure foolproof method of installing this driver?
Further steps that could be taken might be reading the help guide, which is really kind of like a manual. It would be useful for no other reason, other than to become familiar with the operating system and its functionality. One step further, could quite possibly be resetting the file system in BIOS to accept the Vista file system. However I am not really sure any of these additional steps would really do anything. Also getting a new wireless adaptor would do the trick. I am confident of that. Reading somewhere that a wireless adaptor (cant thing of the name off the top of my head at the moment) that uses open source software would do the trick in getting to the next step. However for 26 dollars or something like that, it would be easier for me to get a Rpi and go that route, thus defeating the purpose of using the computer. Also another option would be just to scrap the whole project and use the STI controller, like the one being used on my keezer, but this project for me is much more interesting so that would be a last resort. Hopefully there is a solution somewhere on this thread, but hesitating to reread the whole 250+ pages of this thread is not appealing to me at the moment. So I hope someone can point me in the right direction or towards a solution to get over this hump of my build I would like to do. It seems like its there is an easy fix to it somewhere, and I am sure its right in front of my face, but maybe I am just too stupid to see it.
As a side note, it seriously drives me crazy when I cant figure something like this out .. I remember using dos prompts as an OS on CRT screens thats how really old I am ..UUGGGG
