Comment 26 for bug 188282

There seem to be at least two bugs being discussed and reported in this thread. My original posting was on a failure for hardy alpha4 to install (it could not comple te the initial installation steps prior to starting the install dialog under i386). The reported messages on the lack of the broadcom firmware seemed to suggest a problem with the wireless. This was confirmed in alpha 5.

However, alpha 6 does correctly bring up the installation sequence (although I stopped it at the partition editor, as I am involved in another task on my Dell D531 laptop, and need it for about a week.) Therefore, I think this bug should be marked as 'fixed in alpha6'. I am posting this on the Dell 531 laptop running hardy alpha6 in the 'try out ubuntu without making any changes to your system mode'. In case it will help the debugging team, I have attached dmesg and lspci txt files done under hardy i386 alpha6 on this machine.

The problem with the missing firmeware files is still there (see the dmesg output), as it was under gutsy (see an earlier message on this thread).

That said, comments made by different posters above suggest that there may still be problems with the wireless and broadcom, but that was not the thrust of the initial bug report.

One thing I did note during the install, is that the world map which displays (the second or third step in the install sequence -- where you set the default time zone) is very VERY touchy. As soon as I mouse over it expands to a detail level -- which makes it very hard to select where you are. I finished the selection of the time zone using the drop box of cities. I will install alpha6 on another desktop I have, and if this problem repeats will file a separated bug report.

My thanks to all who have worked on this problem, and to the kernel team and/or install team that solved the problem.