Acer Aspire 5310 problems with Ubuntu

[cumbulak]

I have installed Ubuntu 7.04 on Acer Aspire 5310, most things seem to work, but several devices are unavailable:
- no sound from the soundcard
- wifi not working
- web camera not working (but this is not crucial, I can live without it )
- card reader not working
- not sure if S-Video is working (what is the way to test it?)
- acer buttons do nothing (but this is also not too harming ))

Has anybody succesfully installed Unbuntu on this Acer and solved the issues?

Thanks in advance for any advice.

cumbulak

[E_K]

i have the acer extensa 5210, which i can find minimal info about, not even on the acer website, i bought the laptop at the start of the month, and started with the same problems as you, most of which i have solved, still working on the bluetooth and the s-video, not tested the card reader yet, PM your MSN addy if you have one, maybe we can chat there

[cumbulak]

We may compare the HW:

this is what I found in the Aspire 5310 after installing testing win-vista:

- things not working with linux:
Wifi: Broadcom 802.11 - BCM43xx
Sound: Realtek HD Audio(nothing more specified), but linux seems to detect it as intel something.
WebCam: Acer Crystal Eye - some Sonix with drivers of SuyinNBCam on CD, it works wit this
Modem: Winmodem (driver AcrZUn32) - not tested
Card Reader: ENE MR510 - not detected by linux
Acer HotKeys: I may have messed something with acerhk, but it did not do anything

- things working with linux:
Gigabit NIC, HDD, DVD (with sucessful burning), video (915 resolution necessary for 1280x800), mouse, touchpad, battery.

- things not tested:
S-Video, hmmmm I somehow forgot to test USB, I will have to do it.

[E_K]

i have a Broadcom Corporation Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-PCI Card , type in lspci in a terminal and it will tell you if you have that one i can tell you how to get it working

[cumbulak]

lspc says that I have the same Wifi card. (Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN)

I have tried disabling bcm43xx driver and installing ndiswrapper + some downloaded windows driver, but without success (with bmc43xx a wifi card was displayed, but unusable, with ndiswrapper no wifi device was even displayed)

How did you succeed with your sound card? And how does feel your card-reader?

[E_K]

My Sound card works to an extent, the external ports do NOT work, which is a pain in the *** when your watching a movie with a low volume
My card reader i have no idea i do not have anything to test it with....

but any way onto the issue

if u have a Dell 1390 this should be no probs u should have a switch for it on the front of your laptop, i have one for the bluetooth and one for wireless unltil i did this it wouldnt light up

If you have tried to get your wirless card working before this, this will probably not work, depending on what you have done, best to start from a clean install, if you have nothing really worth keeping on the system reinstall, i reinstalled alot when i first started using ubuntu, you got to get things wrong to learn right?

i dont know why but it seems that things worked better from the original disk, like the cube worked for starters, but the copied disk i have no idea where it came from or how it was burnt(a friend downloaded and burned it for me in work)..... just a point, but the wireless always worked,so that shouldnt be a problem.

Less of the rambling.... (should prob have less of the drinking to haha)

first do this to remove any versions of ndiswrapper you may have installed

sudo rmmod ndiswrapper sudo ndiswrapper -e bcmwl5 sudo apt-get remove ndiswrapper-utils

next we need compiling tools, the latest kernal headers if you dont have them already, and the source code for ndiswrapper

sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install build-essential sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r` wget http://ftp.us.dell.com/network/R151517.EXE

next get the latest ndiswrapper from sourceforge

wget http://internap.dl.sourceforge.net/s...er-1.47.tar.gz

or http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...group_id=93482

time to untar that big ball of tarey goodness

tar -xzvf ndiswrapper-1.47.tar.gz

now black list the useless bcm43xx firmware drivers that they try to load in the default ubuntu install

sudo echo blacklist bcm43xx >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

if that gives you a permission denied give it some what for and try:

sudo -s echo blacklist bcm43xx >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist exit

REBOOT, time to REBOOT, do not forget to REBOOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ok now we need to compile ndiswrapper go to the directory where you extracted it (probably home if you followed the instructions, or destructions HAHAHA only joking)

sudo make uninstall

keep doing the above until it says some thing like no files or directories found.

then

sudo make sudo make install

i hope that worked without any errors, go to the directory where you have the R151517.EXE file and type

unzip -a R151517.EXE

now go to the DRIVER directory

sudo ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf sudo ndiswrapper -l

now if we see driver present hardware detected, we are onto a winner

next type

sudo ndiswrapper -m sudo modprobe ndiswrapper sudo echo ndiswrapper >> /etc/modules

you may have to reboot here i did not, ur wireless light should be on i had to press the switch on the front of mine for a couple of seconds before it lit up, and hopefully now yours works as goos as mine

try:

sudo iwlist scanning

if it still not workingpost back with any errors you got, any any extra info you can, i will do my best to help you

[cumbulak]

Thank you for your advice. I have followed your instructions to run wifi. Now it seems to work, at least the laptop button started to react on pushing and iwlist is able to start scanning (althoug it found nothing, but it can be real situation). So I will try it somewhere elsewhere.

As for sound, I tried to follow https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HdaIntelSoundHowto, but with no success, just in the step:
options snd-hda-intel model=3stack

I could not find relevant model in the documentation, so just tried "auto" and "3stack".

Thank you for anything else you advice to test.

cumbulak

[cumbulak]

I have just tested kernel 2.6.22.5... and no difference...

[indie56]

Hello
I bought a Acer 3680. My sound card did not work. So I tried something from these forums. Go to Terminal and type in alsamixer. If a window opens then you are in luck. Then just make the selections.
Hope this helps.

[E_K]

im glad you got it working cumbulak, as for my audio i thought id give that a bash today, im working on it now so ill let you know if i get it going, id apreciate it if you could do the same

My sound works, just not the mic and the jack plugs, im meant to have these options in the mixer Master, PCM, LineIn, IEC958, Digital, Ext Mic, Int Mic, Int Mic, but i only have Master and PCM

I think maybe this should be in another thread... if someone makes another one please let me know

oh and cumbulak when i tried the how to, i lost all sound, fiesty didnt even know i had a sound card ill let you know if i get somewhere anyways