Ubuntu on Lenovo ThinkPad Edge

[Redsandro]

Hi balkie99,

I have a Thinkpad Edge 15 which is different, but had some problems with Lucid as well. This version is not compatible with the latest Edge series.

Try Linux Mint 11 (which is a nicer version of Ubuntu 11.04 with codecs) because it has Kernel 2.6.38 iirc. You need at least 2.6.35 for Edge. Lucid has 2.6.32.

Try live images to see if wifi works.

[balkie99]

Thank You,

I have just tried it, but nothing different. The wifi is up, I see the possible networks, but cannot connect to them (as at home, only if I would be very close to source...). So it is maybe not a driver problem.

Does anyone experience that the performance of the wifi is this weak with thinkpad edge 13?

What should I change and where?

thanks for ideas.

[Redsandro]

Strange. You shouldn't need extra drivers. Wifi works out of the box. And you can see networks, which means that the Wifi chip is active.

Random ideas:
Check bios setting?
Press Fn + Wifi (F9 on Edge 15)
Hardware failure -> return to shop?
Boot into Windows and see if you can connect?

Thought:
I have doubleboot Windows 7 (came with the laptop) and Linux. Bluetooth didn't work in Linux until I enabled it in Windows.

[bks07]

Hi,

This is what I got:
o Lenovo ThinkPad Edge 11" - 2545-A25
o AMD 1,4GHz - 4GB RAM - Samsung SSD 128GB
o Ubuntu 11.04 x64


Thing is, WiFi installation is successful and it connects to my router via WLAN but it resets wifi connection every two minutes or less. What about the ndiswrapper driver option... has anyone tried yet?

Thanks,
bks07

[bks07]

Hi,

I solved the problem for me.

At first I tried to install ndiswrapper drivers - without any success.
But then i uninstalled everything from ndiswrapper and I installed the original realtek linux driver, upgradet to 11.10 and typed in "sudo modprobe rtl8192ce" for adding my controller and - *tada* - it works!

I hope this helps someone out there.

Cu,
bks07

[Redsandro]

Thanks for sharing!

It puzzles me that it didn't work in the first place though, but glad you figured it out.

[Eddyah]

Grr first time I've had to post a problem when searching has come up dry haha

I've tried installing ubuntu twice now and both times after the reset, it doesn't go into the grub2 menu, rather skips it entirely and boots straight into windows 7.

Anyone has any clues as to why it didn't modify the mbr?

[axyelp]

Grr first time I've had to post a problem when searching has come up dry haha

I've tried installing ubuntu twice now and both times after the reset, it doesn't go into the grub2 menu, rather skips it entirely and boots straight into windows 7.

Anyone has any clues as to why it didn't modify the mbr?

Try live booting again to see if its installed. If the installation said successful, you might want to check the disk settings at the bios. There's one setting under disk setting which sets to AHCI more or something. Change it to the other option, which is IDE or legacy, can't recall the exact thing.

That should probably work. It worked on a few laptops and my desktop.

[Gregorybekkers]

Ì have the Thinkpad Edge 15" Intel i3 Works fine for me.
Only with 10.04 LTS I have wireless problems.

But from 11.04 and up Thinkpad Edge is Ubuntu Certified.
And that works fine.

[Eddyah]

Try live booting again to see if its installed. If the installation said successful, you might want to check the disk settings at the bios. There's one setting under disk setting which sets to AHCI more or something. Change it to the other option, which is IDE or legacy, can't recall the exact thing.

That should probably work. It worked on a few laptops and my desktop.

There are two settings i've played with trying all 4 possibilities:

SATA mode: AHCI OR Compatibility mode

Boot: UEFI OR Legacy

Changing to compatibility mode ruins any chance of me booting into windows due. Comes up with a repair message about the operating system.

UEFI or Legacy + AHCI does nothing sadly.

I'll have to try installing grub from the live cd and see if that fixes my problem. Fingers crossed I don't destroy my windows partition beyond repair!