Installation on a Gateway LT3103u

[ste1969]

I had no problems installing Ubuntu 9.04 onto my Gateway LT3103u. WIFI did not work however. Using a wired connection, I updated everything and rebooted, still no wireless. I then installed the linux-backports-modules-2.6.28-13-generic package. After another reboot everything works fine!

[mynameinc]

I had no problems installing Ubuntu 9.04 onto my Gateway LT3103u. WIFI did not work however. Using a wired connection, I updated everything and rebooted, still no wireless. I then installed the linux-backports-modules-2.6.28-13-generic package. After another reboot everything works fine!

Including wireless? If so, this probably needs moved to the testimonials section...

[scudder2u]

Yep, I can confirm the same.. wireless works after installing the backports module... Unfortunately, the bios doesnt support CPU scaling and the batter life is short...a bit over 2 hours for me.

[yoshiki2]

How do i install the backports module. sorry my 1st time trying to install ubuntu

[stryker719]

I'm going to give this a friendly 'bump'. I just picked up my Gateway LT3103u, and can't get wireless to work. How do I go about installing this backports module?

And also, scudder2u, is your battery life still crummy?

Thanks!

[mrojas73]

I had no problems installing Ubuntu 9.04 onto my Gateway LT3103u. WIFI did not work however. Using a wired connection, I updated everything and rebooted, still no wireless. I then installed the linux-backports-modules-2.6.28-13-generic package. After another reboot everything works fine!

Worked for me...thanks for posting this!:P

[jcsteele]

This worked for me - however power management was a deal killer - the machine cannot even determine when the ac adapter is plugged in....battery life is miserable.

Since I don't want to kill the machine prematurely, ubuntu will have to wait.

[nomes]

My installation went smoothly as well, with back ports but i cannot get the built in microphone to record...have all of u got the microphone working?

[rspangler]

did you install from CD or USB? I've been trying to install and I always get dropped to busybox when trying to launch the livecd.

[rspangler]

I finally got it installed. I had to use the alternate cd and install from network,

[maddmike]

What version did you install? I have tried both Xubuntu 9.04 AMD64 desktop and alternate image and both drop out to a busybox shell after booting the kernel, i.e. no installation, this is the installer boot it craps out on.

Thanks,

Mike

[jcsteele]

I was using the alternative installer for 9.04. What version is your BIOS? I have heard some chatter about some problems in that area... //jcs

[maddmike]

My bios version is v1.3201. Where is there discussion about the BIOS version? Does Gateway have an upgrade?

[jcsteele]

I am not sure exactly where I seen it - I have been googling for days to try to solve this problem, or at least find out some more information about it...perhaps on this forum, or on a launchpad bug report.

Anyways, we do have a different version...mine is v. 1.3103 and was released on 05/27/2009...

[rspangler]

I installed using Ubuntu 9.04 32 bit alternate install and my bios is 1.3201

[naujokas]

Mic works in skype with alsa 1.0.20 drivers

[maddmike]

I installed using Ubuntu 9.04 32 bit alternate install and my bios is 1.3201

Yep - I figured this was a possibility because I ran into the same issue on a Compaq dc5800 Minitower that had a Core2 Duo chip. The bad thing is that I specifically bought this machine because it had the AMD64 chip in it to run a 64-bit version of Linux and to avoid buying Intel. :wink:

Going to try the trick I used to get Jaunty on the Compaq, which is to install a 64-bit 8.04 install like suggested previously then perform an upgrade. I'll update the thread after my "test". :)

[Minimalist360]

re: power management...

Apparently this guy (http://www.pow.za.net/index.html) figured out how to get power management working on the Gateway LT3103u under Linux (Gentoo). He doesn't say whether he's submitted his changes, and I don't know enough about Linux to know where power management resides, but I'd imagine it's a kernel level thing. I'd love to see that incorporated into future kernels or appropriate modules, but I have no idea how to go about doing that.

So I thought I'd post the info here in case someone else can handle that.

[jcsteele]

Has anyone been experiencing wifi problems? The connection seems to randomly drop, which requires a reboot to reconnect...similar to what this person reported:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1239809&highlight=lt3103u

At home, the connection won't stay active overnight...when I am at various places around my area (i.e. school), the connection MIGHT last 10 minutes....very annoying.

Just curious what everyone is experiencing.

[Minimalist360]

I've had the same issue with wireless overnight.

[rspangler]

I got powermanagement to work on mine. I used the 2.6.30 kernel though. first I downloaded his dsdt source and comiled it into the .aml format. Then I applied his powernow-k8 patch and a patch to all the kernel to load a dsdt from the initrd image. Once I compiled and installed the kernel, I added the dsdt file to the initrd image. I then had to install powernowd.

This is a brief description of what I had to do to get it working.

[Prikolchik]

If someone is still looking for a solution to power-management problems I've written a How-to: Getting power management to work on Gateway LT31 (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=7868889).

[yoshiki2]

Any news about this netbook? planing to buy it from best buy.. any problems with 9.10?

[maddmike]

I have not tried 9.10 myself but if I were you I would take a USB key loaded with it into BestBuy and try it on the demo model. I know the BestBuy's in mind area don't seem to being carrying this model anymore. Not sure if it has been dropped or what???

Good luck,

Mike

[yoshiki2]

there's a new one.. with xp and 1 gib ram. Netbook doesn't overheat if u are watching youtube videos?

[jcsteele]

I plan on installing 9.10 sometime in the next couple of days, so I will post back here with my results.

When I had the beta/RC installed, the wireless issues seemed to be gone, but power management remains an issue.

[kluffinator]

I've had Karmic running on mine for a while and most everything works.

Audio, microphone, webcam, wireless* are working though.

*Wireless doesn't drop so much but, download speeds from the repositories and web seem to crawl on it when compared to other machines.