Intrepid on a Acer Aspire One

[jbernardo]

Anyone else trying intrepid on a Acer Aspire One? I found that the instructions for Hardy are no longer fully applicable under intrepid. I installed on a external USB HD, and it boots into kde4, but wifi won't work at all. With the madwifi drivers I can scan the neighbourhood, but network manager won't scan and won't connect to my wpa 802.11g network. The sound doesn't seem work and I haven't tried building the alsa drivers from source yet.
The "setpci -d 197b:2381 AE=47" line to enable the card reader doesn't work at all - there is no pci device with the specified id under intrepid.
Anyone else trying Intrepid on the one?

[jbernardo]

Well, since nobody else replies, here are my first tests, which I already posted here:
Sound - no chance until alsa is updated, 1.0.16 won't build under kernel 2.6.26. 1.0.17 is out, so maybe the ubuntu developers will update it soon.
Wireless - also no luck. Installing the madwifi drivers seems to work, and I can scan the network, but NetworkManager won't connect, with a strange error:


NetworkManager: <WARN> wait_for_connection_expired(): Connection (2) /org/freedesktop/NetworkManagerSettings/Connection/0 failed to activate (timeout): (0) Connection was not provided by any settings service

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Also, there is no longer a pci device with ID 197b:2381, so the card reader doesn' t work at all.

[dugald]

Any idea on whether the newer ALSA and madwifi versions required to get audio and wireless working correctly will be incuded in Ibex? I am setting up an Aspire One for my boss, and was considering holding off handing it over until Ibex comes out and things work a little better - perhaps this is wishful thinking (or an excuse to hang onto it for longer!).

[aamukahvi]

Have you tried these: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/pub/next/

[plun]

Have you tried these: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/pub/next/

I think its important to read what Mr Collins writes about Kernel Next.

http://blog.phunnypharm.org/2008/08/...rnel-next.html

Hopefully there will be a "switch" to the 2.6.27 kernel.

[Jitz0722]

I have installed, or upgraded to Intrepid Ibex Alpha 6 today on my acer aspire one. 1.6GHz 120GB harddrive. It appears networking and wireless are working. Need to try lgging onto a network later, but I can see the networks close to me.

The one thing I have not been able to do is get the wireless leds to work.

from dmesg I get the keycodes,
[ 165.270732] atkbd.c: Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0xd5 on isa0060/serio0).
[ 165.270754] atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e055 <keycode>' to make it known.
[ 165.277335] atkbd.c: Unknown key released (translated set 2, code 0xd5 on isa0060/serio0).
[ 165.277354] atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e055 <keycode>' to make it known.
[ 171.148784] ath0: no IPv6 routers present
[ 1832.044041] atkbd.c: Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0xd6 on isa0060/serio0).
[ 1832.044059] atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e056 <keycode>' to make it known.
[ 1832.050631] atkbd.c: Unknown key released (translated set 2, code 0xd6 on isa0060/serio0).
[ 1832.050647] atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e056 <keycode>' to make it known.

I have added the following to rc.local and rebooted and still no luck.
( These are supposed to make them work on hardy 8.04 ). Note also using remix GUI

sysctl -w dev.wifi0.ledpin=3
sysctl -w dev.wifi0.softled=1

The wifi kill switch uses these keycodes (also to use in rc.local):

/usr/bin/setkeycodes e055 159
/usr/bin/setkeycodes e056 158

[jbernardo]

The wifi led only works with the madwifi drivers (ath_pci), not with the kernel included driver (ath5k).

[Jitz0722]

So I verified I am using the latest Kernel: 2.6.27-4-generic
(previoulsy I had 2.6.24 loading )

I built and loaded the ath_pci as below

mkdir source
cd source
wget http://snapshots.madwifi.org/madwifi...0080801.tar.gz
tar -xzvf madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-r3835-20080801.tar.gz
cd madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-r3835-20080801
sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r)

make, make install.

The wireless comes up and works, but the leds on the unit still do not work.

I modified rc.local as per instructions above, wireless appears to trun on and off, but no led.

Regards

[condez]

I have installed Ubuntu Server Beta 1 on the Acer One.

I have followed the instructions on "https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AspireOne" regarding the wireless drivers.

Since i'm running the server i can simply go to "Hardware Drivers" to disable ath driver, because i have no graphic environment.

I followed step by step the procedure to compile drivers from source but thw wireless card still doesn't work.
Also, it seams the kernel drivers try to create a "wlan0" device, however i can't bring it up.
Tried to remove restricted modules from the system but still no luck.

This means, i can't use the wireless card in Ubuntu.

Does anyone have any clues?

[Drano]

Hi folks!

Just managed to get the aspire one wireless to work with ibex drivers. I have done the following:
1-installed ibex alpha6
2-got all updates
3-installed madwifi-tools
4-add the following to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.
blacklist ath_pci
5-add the following to /etc/rc.local.
modprobe ath5k

reboot and you will the wlan0 interface...