Hello, I recently bought a samsung nf-210. One of the first things I did was to run ubuntu on it. Most hardware worked out of box. To get the bcm4313 to work, I had to enable its restricted driver. (too bad b43 doesn't cover this device)
What I got stuck with was the trackpad this device has (Elan tech smartpad). It is wrongly seen as a "logitech ps/2 wheel". A little bit of searching showed that this bug was indeed discovered before and reported here. Since I didn't install ubuntu yet on this device, I haven't messed with anything (like the samsung tools to get fn keys to work+backlight). (But I did prepare a partition)
A youtube movie showed it has an unused mini pci-e port inside, unfortunately the n550 atom processor doesn't support intel turbo memory (one I have). so i'm considering to put in an intel 4965 wireless card (will it work?).
I started this thread so others can share their experiences with this device.
Thanks in advance
Update The initial setup (unboxing) asked me to use 2 partitions or 1, I chose 2 back then. Appearantly D:\ is in an extended partition. I used windows own built in tools to shrink the partition to half of it's size (100gb initially) and used a live usb to create an ext4 partition using the free space (/dev/sda6). During the install proces I chose /dev/sda6 as root, no swap and installing the bootloader to /dev/sda6. This way I preserved the windows bootloader (as I'm not sure if the mbr part is involved in recovery setup). Next was to install easybcd under windows and add a linux entry. Now I have windows 7/ubuntu 10.10 existing next to each other with windows bootloader on mbr (preserving recovery etc.) As a backup plan I extracted the first 512 bytes (mbr) of /dev/sda and saved it elsewhere.
Update2 I added the voria ppa as a source, updated my system with packages from there, installed samsung-backlight samsung-tools and easy-slow-down-manager. Now the fn keys work excellent (grabs are released). Dimming backlight isn't working, while the system does think i'm dimming it. Got a workaround for it: "sudo setpci -s 00:02.0 f4.b=<value between 0 and ff>". Now the biggest concern remains the trackpad.
I also tried out brcm80211 for the bcm4313, a driver still in development. Using compat-wireless (bleeding edge) it built fine, loaded fine, but upon connecting caused a freeze of my system. Guess it's not stable enough yet.
Update3 I have found a working solution for the backlight, add "acpi_backlight=vendor" as a kernel parameter. After a reboot, it will work as desired.
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