Install Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex (8.10) Guide??

Now that Intrepid Ibex is officially out, could someone put together an installation guide for whatever features don't work after a fresh install on an Aspire One?

 

Guess it will take some time until a useful HowTo is put together with all fine-tuning.
Meanwhile try reading: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AspireOne

 

One important note (covered in their release notes)
Wireless support will NOT work out of the box. This is by design, the apparently logic being that people using Hardy were using MadWifi drivers. (That's my guess--the release notes just say that the ath5k module will conflict with the ath_pci module)

http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/810

(Look for ath5k on the page)

 

Voila;

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AspireOne110L

 

I hope one of those above links helps me install wireless drivers easily. Its the only thing holding me back from using Ubuntu full time over Vista. They want more people to use an OS, you just cant make it so damn difficult to get something as trivial as a internet connection working...

 

For me, none of the guides worked. Still no wireless networks show up in my Network Connections.
Starting to feel a little sorry for not buying the Windows AA1....

 

You're using Intrepid and it's not working?

Checklist:
Did you first install the backports module?
Did you remember to blacklist ath_pci.
Did you reboot? (Not always necessary, and as some article or another on MadWifi's site says, this shouldn't happen, it isn't Windows.)
Did you try
sudo ifconfig wlan0 up
iwlist scan wlan0

and get any results?

 

Could you please explain that step-by-step. Having a lot of trouble with wireless network.
And being a newby... it's hard!!!
And Madwifi cannot be reached. So can't try that.....

 

Getting wireless in Ibex should be a simple affair
The command 'sudo aptitude linux-backports-modules-intrepid-generic' should be enough

cheers

 

I've done this and after a reboot, wireless is gone.

I type in sudo ifconfig wlan0 up and get the following:

Code:

wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device

It was just working 25 mins ago :evil:

 

No, it didn't work for me either.
So, just have to wait till madwifi is back online.

 

it's a hardware conflict

installing the backports .. restart then go to system >adminstrator > hardware drivers and disable the second one

Atheros 802.11

and leave the serise 5 driver activated

then a simple restart will put your wlan on ( iam wireless now ) also WPA works instantly

 

Be careful. I needed to halt, wait and cold boot the system to get the wifi working after installing. No reboot in the world did a difference.

 

I have nothing listed under the hardware drivers

 

also, I tried an lspci | grep net command and the only thing that shows is my ethernet controller, no atheros card.

where did it go??

 

I just performed a fresh install of 8.10 with a wired connection and when I select

System -> Administation -> Hardware Drivers

it listed

"Support for Atheros 802.11 wireless LAN cards"

and it was active. I really don't know why yours is missing. Was it there when you first installed?

I just deactivated it, ran

Code:

sudo aptitude update

Code:

sudo aptitude safe-upgrade

(waited quite a while....)

Code:

sudo aptitude install linux-backports-modules-intrepid

(waited quite a while again.....)

then rebooted and the wireless was working. That's it.

 

Thank you for the guide. It is very useful.

I just have a quick question. You say "WPA worked instantly". Can I just check what you mean by this, as I am having some problems with WPA. I followed the instructions, and it looks like the network manager is working OK, as it lists the available wireless networks. However, when I click on a network, the network manager prompts for a key, and has a drop down with the various options for security type. However, the drop down only has WEP options and LEAP, there is no WPA option.

Have I missed something?

I'm using a fresh install of Intrepid on the 8GB SSD AAO. Thanks.

 

For everyone having problems:
Use the WiFi switch. Sounds daft I know but that's what it took to get my wireless again after the in-place upgrade.
Mind you the upgrade took about 8 hours yesterday, so I'd recommend a fresh install just for the time it'll save you. And remember, if the wireless isn't working try flicking the switch and see what happens.

 

did you have a problem with wireless networks not being found?

my issue is weird: I can see the card (ath5k), but no wireless networks. I've re-installed a couple of times and I'm still all messed up. I've tried the ubuntuforums but those are just out of control and it seems like no one responds.

 

Here are my installation notes, in case they help someone. This was a clean build from the 8.10 final ISO, on a USB key built with unetbootin. Apart from the normal installation tasks I also did some trimming and updating...this results in a filesystem of about 2.4G. There are things that I don't use that I just removed completely.

I also installed the custom kernel described in http://www.aspireoneuser.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=5517&start=40which is lighter and boots about twice as fast as the stock Ubuntu kernel.

INSTALL NOTES
Step 4: Choose manual partitioning. New primary partition of 8G (no swap area) formatted as EXT2.
NOTE: Even though I'd chosen EXT2, the partition was created as EXT3. Had to manually revert to EXT2 using tune2fs after install.

Installation took about 30 minutes from USB key.

Reboot onto wired network.

- Set up fstab to mount the SDHC card at /home (use UUID to avoid conflict with right SD card)
- Set up acerfand in rc.local

-Get wireless running:
Add backports repository to Synaptic
apt-get install linux-backports-modules-intrepid-generic
Blacklist ath_pci, ath_hal
Add ath5k to /etc/modules

-Reboot, verify wireless working

Add/remove packages:
install wicd (instructions at wicd.sourceforge.net/download.php) (removes gnome-network-manager)
install fusion-icon
remove open-office 2.4 (used Synaptic 'completely remove' for all installed packages)
replace icedTea with official Sun JRE6 (instructions on macles)
install Openoffice 3 (instructions at http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-To-I ... 6449.shtml)
(add restricted repos)
install skype (need restricted repos to install libqt4)
install preload

Remove the following:
ekiga
evolution
xsane
rhythmbox
brasero
Bluetooth (all)
brltty
cdparanoia
dcraw
example-content
fortune
f-spot
gimp
gnome-orca
non-western fonts
gnome-games

Install:
tasque
thunderbird/lightning-extension
hplipgui
vlc
custom ICC kernel (see link above)

- Turn off kernel and system logging
- Apply speedups from https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AspireOne
[setting concurrency level to 'shell' in /etc/init.d/rc does not appear to reduce boot time]

Reboot

Revert to EXT3 on SDD (requires booting from USB key)

I've been running this configuration for about a day, so far I've not noticed anything broken.

Perry
http://www.kidpub.com