Cannot Install Ubuntu On Acer Aspire One

[issih]

if you can get xubuntu installed you could always do that, then simply install the package ubuntu-desktop from there. You could even remove the xubuntu packages if you wanted...Rather a roundabout solution, but it is a possibility.

Hope that helps

[Tux Aubrey]

Try the 32 bit 8.04.1 build of Ubuntu (or Xubuntu). I think the later kernel has built-in support for the Atom processor that is lacking in the earlier builds.

For WIFI, the chip is a new Atheros (AR5007) that works with the LATEST madwifi drivers - not the version shipped with Ubuntu.

Follow this guide to compiling them -

http://brunoabinader.blogspot.com/20...rdy-heron.html

Don't forget to disable the drivers that the Hardware Drivers wizard thing uses by default before you start.

Once you get the drivers working, you can add them to /etc/modules to make them load at boot time. Do it manually (sudo nano /etc/modules) or just

$ sudo echo ath_pci >> /etc/modules

You will have to repeat the make-install process whenever there is a kernel update so keep the tar ball (unless they get built-in, which is promised "soon")

[Tux Aubrey]

Another thing you may want to do with a newly installed X/ubuntu on the Acer Aspire One is to edit your fstab (sudo nano /etc/fstab) and comment (#) out the line for /dev/sdb1 which begins /media/cdrom0......

Otherwise you may have problems with USB devices that are not CDROMs.

USB devices automounted fine for me after editing that line. Before that I was getting errors about wrong filesystems and bad blocks.

This issue does not affect booting from a USB device (which you can select during boot with F12.

Also, watch out for NumLock! It is on by default and you will have fun trying to enter a password if you are not used to it (Fn+F11 turns it off).

Have fun - I'm loving mine!

[tiltus]

[QUOTE=Tux Aubrey;5380552For WIFI, the chip is a new Atheros (AR5007) that works with the LATEST madwifi drivers - not the version shipped with Ubuntu.[/QUOTE]

I found that the chipset did not work with the lastest MAdwifi drivers, rather their latest special drivers in snapshot:
http://snapshots.madwifi.org/special...+ar5007.tar.gz

[Tux Aubrey]

I found that the chipset did not work with the lastest MAdwifi drivers, rather their latest special drivers in snapshot:
http://snapshots.madwifi.org/special...+ar5007.tar.gz

You are right. I just followed Bruno Abinader's How-To and got those drivers.

[2fast4u288]

I have successfully gotten Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy running on my new acer aspire one in only 2 days after receiving it from my boss to experiment with Linux on it. I have also gotten the wireless to work. I was able to get hardy on it by first installing 7.10 gutsy gibbons and using the distro upgrade. Yes, I know that that's not the best way to go about things, but it works. The way i got the wireless to work is with nDiswrapper. I first got the windows drivers from

http://www.liliputing.com/2008/07/windows-drivers-for-acer-aspire-one.html

then using ndiswrapper the way you always do. BTW, sry this post is so long, but its 3:30 in the morning and im typing this on my aspire one, which for some reason makes me babble on about nothing, sry bout that too. Anyways, if what i said helps anyone out, well...i guess i helped u out... This is also my first post on this site, so please dont bash me too much and do u guys think its weird to be a Linux "semi-expert" at the age of 15? (im not calling myself an expert-expert because just cuz i know more about linux than anyone i know, dosn't mean i know more than most of the ppl who help the people out on this site)...OMG...STFU ME!!...sry guys...really sry...im gonna finish now...bye...

[kunixos]

itsapenguin: have you tried modifying your boot parameters to disable some of the card managers (noapci, etc.)? that was a problem for me with my Acer Aspire 9410Z with a couple other distros. Not with Ubuntu, but I'm not sure how the Aspire One works similarly/differently.

Hope this helps!

[2fast4u288]

I also 4got to ask u guys where u got your aspire ones from...cuz i got mine from my bosses spetial contact who got a surprise shipment of them b4 the actual stated release day..so...ya..any responce would be appretiated....im totally gone now..lol

[dandesigns]

thanks for the instructions. it worked.

[dcwckd]

Installed with unetbootin and live 8.04. Wifi is great, thanks.

Reduced swappiness and changed fstab to tmpfs (cause were using SSD).

Any idea how to get it to suspend when I close the lid?

Thanks