Ultrabook install

[fffx64]

First of all hello!!!
My problems are these

1)wifi(bcm43142)is not working (i have installed iwlwifi, see that firmware exists ,and download driver.deb from many sources but every time it failed because linux-headers are not installed ) i don't know what else to try

2)cinnamon is running in rendering mode , i have 2 gpus the "internal" and an "external" and debian are running with the intel internal gpu .i have installed nvidia drivers but .conf file has not been created and nvidia-xconfig command results with command not found.

3)at last i want to know if there is a way to use for cashing the sshd (1tb +24gb) in linux (the system is dual boot with windows but if windows prevents linux cashing ability i will erase them )

kernel is 3.16.0-4-amd64

ultrabook link https://www.asus.com/Notebooks/X302LJ/specifications/

Thanks in advance

[GarryRicketson]

Welcome to the forum, Did you do any searches on this ?
Search found 38 matches: +nvidia +drivers +asus +laptop
In a nut shell the nvdia drivers, and asus are about the worst harware one could have, it is extremely difficult to get Debian working on that junk, Debian is a great OS, but from what I have seen here on the forum, Asus , with it's Nvdia drivers is just NOT able to handle or work well with Debian,or Linux, while most other equipment does.
I am not sure if anyone has even successfully solved the problem with Asus, and the nvdia drivers,..look through the topics/threads on this.
In most of those threads, this is what is suggested:
https://wiki.debian.org/Bumblebee
https://wiki.debian.org/Bumblebee#Bumblebee_Project
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Something I notice when I looked at the Asus specs: they say:

X302LJ
FeaturesSpecificationsGallerySupport
ASUS recommends Windows.

This just goes to show what junk they really are, they recommend using a poorly designed OS, the computer is designed intentionally to support Windows, but not Debian or Linux .
This does not mean it is impossible to install Debian on it, but it does explain why there are so many problems with this kind of poorly designed hardware.

[dilberts_left_nut]

1) https://wiki.debian.org/bcm43xx

2) https://wiki.debian.org/Bumblebee

3) What?

[fffx64]

1) https://wiki.debian.org/bcm43xx

My card is not listed in this manual
i have tried this https://wiki.debian.org/wl where my card is listed but when i "modprobe wl" it responds wl is an invalid argument

2) https://wiki.debian.org/Bumblebee

i have installed bumblebee,it's propably not running because nvidia drivers are installing but intel gpu is driving the system

3) What?

it has an sshd it's an classic hdd with a little ssd which works as cashe for the hdd for speed


Wifi is the main issue for me right now ufortunally ,also the led of the flight mode is on but with rfkill nothing is blocked,when i enable flight mode led goes off but everything is soft blocked (i said that if thats a clue )
Sorry for waiting

[RU55EL]

[...]
3) What?
it has an sshd it's an classic hdd with a little ssd which works as cashe for the hdd for speed
[...]

If you are referring to a hybrid hard drive (a conventional hard disk with a solid state cache) I believe it works at the hardware level. Just use it like a normal hard disk drive.

[fffx64]

If you are referring to a hybrid hard drive (a conventional hard disk with a solid state cache) I believe it works at the hardware level. Just use it like a normal hard disk drive.

i thought the same thing but it doesn't work ,i installed and windows (for the problem of the wifi) and in windows it wanted intel rapid storage to work as an hybrid drive. never mind,that maybe can't be solved especialy with dual boot with windows.

wifi is the main problem right now because it lost all of it's portability

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo ... bug=757984 can i escape from this?

[stevepusser]

You aren't following the wiki procedure for wl somehow, but you need to copy and paste your commands & results here for us to spot what's wrong. You can't build it without headers, to begin with. You do understand that most of those commands have to be run as administrator, right?

[fffx64]

You aren't following the wiki procedure for wl somehow, but you need to copy and paste your commands & results here for us to spot what's wrong. You can't build it without headers, to begin with. You do understand that most of those commands have to be run as administrator, right?

o fcourse everything is running as root

after many atemps and changes it didn't sent an error

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 apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r|sed 's,[^-]*-[^-]*-,,') broadcom-sta-dkms

for

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modprobe wl

i get

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modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'wl': Invalid argument
modprobe: ERROR: ../libkmod/libkmod-module.c:960 command_do() Error running install command for wl
modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'wl': Operation not permitted 

[RU55EL]

If you are referring to a hybrid hard drive (a conventional hard disk with a solid state cache) I believe it works at the hardware level. Just use it like a normal hard disk drive.

i thought the same thing but it doesn't work ,i installed and windows (for the problem of the wifi) and in windows it wanted intel rapid storage to work as an hybrid drive. never mind,that maybe can't be solved especialy with dual boot with windows.

wifi is the main problem right now because it lost all of it's portability

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo ... bug=757984 can i escape from this?

I spoke too soon. [pulling foot from mouth] According to wikipedia SSHD drives have a self optimizing mode that operates independent of the host operating system, and a host optimized mode that enables some control from the host operating system. While there are some patches for the linux kernel, it doesn't look like these features are included in the currently developed linux kernel.

[stevepusser]

You aren't following the wiki procedure for wl somehow, but you need to copy and paste your commands & results here for us to spot what's wrong. You can't build it without headers, to begin with. You do understand that most of those commands have to be run as administrator, right?

o fcourse everything is running as root

after many atemps and changes it didn't sent an error

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 apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r|sed 's,[^-]*-[^-]*-,,') broadcom-sta-dkms

for

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modprobe wl

i get

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modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'wl': Invalid argument
modprobe: ERROR: ../libkmod/libkmod-module.c:960 command_do() Error running install command for wl
modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'wl': Operation not permitted 

The simple way to make sure you have everything to build that driver is to use module-assistant:

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apt-get install module-assistant
m-a prepare

I asked for the output of commands...people have said there have been no errors in the outputs before, when there have been, unfortunately.

[fffx64]

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apt-get install module-assistant
m-a prepare

I asked for the output of commands...people have said there have been no errors in the outputs before, when there have been, unfortunately.

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root@ultrabookara:/home/fotis# m-a prepare
Getting source for kernel version: 3.16.0-4-amd64
Kernel headers available in /lib/modules/3.16.0-4-amd64/build
apt-get install build-essential 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
build-essential is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.

Done!
root@ultrabookara:/home/fotis# apt-get update
Ign http://ftp.gr.debian.org jessie InRelease
Hit http://ftp.gr.debian.org jessie-updates InRelease                          
Hit http://ftp.gr.debian.org jessie Release.gpg                                
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net jessie InRelease                                  
Hit http://security.debian.org jessie/updates InRelease                        
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net jessie Release.gpg                                
Get:1 http://ftp.gr.debian.org jessie-updates/main amd64 Packages/DiffIndex [367 B]
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net jessie Release                                    
Get:2 http://ftp.gr.debian.org jessie-updates/main i386 Packages/DiffIndex [367 B]
Ign http://http.debian.net jessie InRelease                                    
Hit http://http.debian.net wheezy-backports InRelease                          
Hit http://ftp.gr.debian.org jessie Release                                    
Hit http://ftp.gr.debian.org jessie-updates/main Sources                       
Hit http://http.debian.net jessie Release.gpg                                  
Hit http://ftp.gr.debian.org jessie-updates/contrib Sources                    
Hit http://ftp.gr.debian.org jessie-updates/contrib amd64 Packages             
Hit http://ftp.gr.debian.org jessie-updates/contrib i386 Packages              
Hit http://ftp.gr.debian.org jessie-updates/contrib Translation-en             
Get:3 http://http.debian.net wheezy-backports/main amd64 Packages/DiffIndex [505 B]
Hit http://ftp.gr.debian.org jessie-updates/main Translation-en                
Hit http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/main Sources                     
Get:4 http://http.debian.net wheezy-backports/contrib amd64 Packages [8,714 B] 
Hit http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/contrib Sources                  
Hit http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/main amd64 Packages              
Hit http://ftp.gr.debian.org jessie/main Sources                               
Get:5 http://http.debian.net wheezy-backports/non-free amd64 Packages [21.5 kB]
Hit http://ftp.gr.debian.org jessie/main amd64 Packages                        
Hit http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/contrib amd64 Packages           
Hit http://ftp.gr.debian.org jessie/main i386 Packages                         
Hit http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/main i386 Packages               
Hit http://ftp.gr.debian.org jessie/main Translation-en                        
Get:6 http://http.debian.net wheezy-backports/main i386 Packages/DiffIndex [919 B]
Hit http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/contrib i386 Packages            
Hit http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/contrib Translation-en           
Get:7 http://http.debian.net wheezy-backports/contrib i386 Packages [8,701 B]  
Hit http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/main Translation-en              
Get:8 http://http.debian.net wheezy-backports/non-free i386 Packages [22.6 kB] 
Err http://ppa.launchpad.net jessie/main amd64 Packages                        
  404  Not Found
Get:9 http://http.debian.net wheezy-backports/contrib Translation-en [6,265 B]
Err http://ppa.launchpad.net jessie/main i386 Packages                         
  404  Not Found
Get:10 http://http.debian.net wheezy-backports/main Translation-en/DiffIndex [229 B]
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net jessie/main Translation-en_US                     
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net jessie/main Translation-en            
Get:11 http://http.debian.net wheezy-backports/non-free Translation-en [21.5 kB]
Hit http://http.debian.net jessie Release                                      
Hit http://http.debian.net jessie/main amd64 Packages          
Hit http://http.debian.net jessie/contrib amd64 Packages       
Hit http://http.debian.net jessie/non-free amd64 Packages
Hit http://http.debian.net jessie/main i386 Packages
Hit http://http.debian.net jessie/contrib i386 Packages        
Hit http://http.debian.net jessie/non-free i386 Packages       
Hit http://http.debian.net jessie/contrib Translation-en             
Hit http://http.debian.net jessie/main Translation-en
Hit http://http.debian.net jessie/non-free Translation-en
Fetched 2,387 B in 5s (470 B/s)
W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/bumblebee/stable/ubuntu/dists/jessie/main/binary-amd64/Packages  404  Not Found

W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/bumblebee/stable/ubuntu/dists/jessie/main/binary-i386/Packages  404  Not Found

E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
root@ultrabookara:/home/fotis# apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r|sed 's,[^-]*-[^-]*-,,') broadcom-sta-dkms
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
linux-headers-amd64 is already the newest version.
broadcom-sta-dkms is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
root@ultrabookara:/home/fotis# modprobe -r b44 b43 b43legacy ssb brcmsmac
root@ultrabookara:/home/fotis# modprobe wl
modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'wl': Invalid argument
modprobe: ERROR: ../libkmod/libkmod-module.c:960 command_do() Error running install command for wl
modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'wl': Operation not permitted
 

[stevepusser]

OK, your system is broken somehow. I don't know its history, but the output above shows wheezy-backports enabled, plus an attempt to use an Ubuntu PPA, so I'd guess it's probably some messing around with repositories that broke it, because wl will load first time, every time, on an unborked system if the procedure is followed.

That would have been obvious from the start if the output was provided; instead people have wasted time on this.

[fffx64]

OK, your system is broken somehow. I don't know its history, but the output above shows wheezy-backports enabled, plus an attempt to use an Ubuntu PPA, so I'd guess it's probably some messing around with repositories that broke it, because wl will load first time, every time, on an unborked system if the procedure is followed.

That would have been obvious from the start if the output was provided; instead people have wasted time on this.

So a clear install is the only solution?

[dilberts_left_nut]

So a clear install is the only solution?

No, but f you don't know what you've installed from where, or have a good grasp of how the packaging system works, then it's likely the quickest.