Jaunty on Acer Aspire One

[stchman]

I just installed Jaunty Alpha 6 on my AA1 and I must say it is really nice.

I had Intrepid and it was OK, but real slow. The boot up time was pretty ridiculous and apps took forever to launch.

I tried Jaunty on a USB stick and it was almost as fast as Intrepid on the AA1's hdd. I said I have got to give it a try.

I took the plunge and wiped the partition Intrepid was installed on.

I then booted up Jaunty on the USB stick, selected install and away I went.

After installation the boot speed was amazingly fast.

The wireless did not work, but everything else did. I hooked up an ethernet cable and did the updates.

The only thing I had to do was to compile the current madwifi drivers which is pretty easy.

After a reboot I was connected to my wireless router and surfing.

Of course I had to do some desktop theme selection and other junk to fit my tastes.

I really like the new boot splash and cool login screen.

One thing I noticed is that the battery last about 45 minutes longer from Intrepid to Jaunty. I guess the folks at Canonical are working on power management.

I have not tried the SD card readers, but I will do that and post back. FYI no issues with USB flash drives either.

I was completely amazed that Alpha 6 Jaunty is so stable. I can only imagine how good Jaunty will be after release.

I was wondering, if running Jaunty Alpha when the release is official does one have to reinstall Jaunty or will the update manager update the OS to release?

Thanks.

[teaker1s]

My aspire one is jaunty 320gb 1.5gb ram,

the wireless doesn't work out of the box because you need to blacklist acer_wmi

sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

make sure that you have these lines at end and save file
blacklist ath_pci
blacklist acer_wmi


reboot
if you then

lsmod

you should be using ath5k

Card reader and wireless support has been patchy in several kernels, latest daily build seems good

[stchman]

Originally Posted by teaker1s My aspire one is jaunty 320gb 1.5gb ram, the wireless doesn't work out of the box because you need to blacklist acer_wmi sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist make sure that you have these lines at end and save file blacklist ath_pci blacklist acer_wmi reboot if you then lsmod you should be using ath5k Card reader and wireless support has been patchy in several kernels, latest daily build seems good

I am using the ath_pci madwifi as when was using Intrepid the ath5k was too spotty.

Yes, I did blacklist the acer_wmi module.

[teaker1s]

I've found ath5k to be okay in jaunty, previously I compiled the madwifi drivers in intrepid.

[malangaman]

Dear fellow Acer Aspirants, please update this thread with your results. I just purchased my AA1 and am jumping in as you have. Am presently considering 8.04.02 to be consistent with the other units at home. But I will cross over to Jaunty if it is the better.

[teaker1s]

I would recommend jaunty over all other versions of ubuntu, note it balks as upgrade, but is great as fresh install

[pjalegria]

+1....

[Xyphoid]

Hya all,

I installed Jaunty Beta on my Acer One.
Blacklisted acer_wmi with:

sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

Added to the file:
blacklist ath_pci
blacklist acer_wmi

And rebooted.

But my wifi is still not working.
What are the exact steps and code to make my wifi work?
Or do I have to install Madwifi like in Intrepid (that worked, but somehow after some time my wifi would disappear and I couldn't get it back).

[teaker1s]

ath5k works faultlessly for me, but try a cold boot not a restart.
Mine took a little while to play nice

lsmod

can you see it loaded?

I also tried the restricted drivers option and reinstalled network-manager-gnome

iwconfig

will let you see if it's powered on, it could just be network manager.

[polkadotteapot]

Try this here: http://www.aspireonekernel.com/#Downloads

The first package worked before I'd even rebooted.

Let me know if it helps.