Does anyone have Ubuntu on Lenovo G780?

[fiftyeightz]

I've notice this 17 inch laptop which looks interesting, I've been considering a big laptop and this one has Intel graphics so a least there are no Optimus problems.

[BrianBlaze]

I know this doesn't help much but I have a G570 15 inch and it works great

[ld114]

Same here. G570 works fine with 12.04 - except for the onboard microphone, but that's no big deal.

[ld114]

Meant to say that Lenovo's are known to be linux friendly - that's why I opted for one.

[fiftyeightz]

thanx, my worry now is the wireless.

It's only written for the G780 "Lenovo BGN wireless".

That's not telling me much, from what I know often for laptop companies they often do not manufacture their own wireless device.

Do you know if there's a way to find out which wireless is it and if I should worry about it

[ld114]

This is probably all right. The datasheet for the G570 says just "802.11bg/bgn WiFi", but lspci returns "Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter". Though there is always a risk, there have been no wifi issues with the G570 - wireless works straight away with 12.04 (and Debian Squeeze).

The only way to be absolutely sure is to boot up the laptop you are keen on in a store with an Ubuntu live USB stick and then do lspci in a terminal. This will tell you what all the controllers are.

[kurru]

I have g780 and Kubuntu 12.04. What is your question?

Wireless is just fine, however when you install kernel out of the repository you will need to re-install wifi, so prepare with downloading the driver.

Cable LAN will not work, neither I could make the nVidia 630M to work. But the main advantage of this laptop is the BIOS setup, where you can disable dedicated graphics.

[kurru]

lspci:


00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Ivy Bridge DRAM Controller (rev 09)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Ivy Bridge Graphics Controller (rev 09)
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Panther Point USB xHCI Host Controller (rev 04)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Panther Point MEI Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Panther Point USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 (rev 04)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Panther Point High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Panther Point PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev c4)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Panther Point PCI Express Root Port 2 (rev c4)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Panther Point USB Enhanced Host Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Panther Point LPC Controller (rev 04)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Panther Point 6 port SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 04)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation Panther Point SMBus Controller (rev 04)
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR8162 Fast Ethernet (rev 08)
02:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller (rev 01)

[OrangeCrate]

Out of curiosity, besides this one, how many threads like this do you need at one time?

Lenovo BGN Wireless, ubuntu friendly?

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2063080

Which to buy? Inspiron 17R or Latitude E5530?

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2057402

Dell Latitude or Lenovo Thinkpad?

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2062675

Buying laptop, wireless device model vs chipset

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2057395

I've participated in a couple of them, but I'm a little confused with where all this is going, so, I think I'm done.

Good luck!

[fiftyeightz]

Yep sorry about that.
Usually when I open one thread with many questions people tell me to split it to more than one thread then that's what I did.

I changed my open a couple of times as well that's why there are so many threads.

anyway kurru thank you a lot for the info!