VogonZarniwoop
May 9th, 2011, 07:05 PM
I have done a fresh install of 11.04 on my Acer 2010 laptop, which used to be, gosh.. maybe 9.04 or perhaps even older than that, I forget exactly. The older kubuntu was more or less working fine. 11.04 I'm having a lot of problems though.
* Even the install CD won't boot without acpi=off. Once the system is installed, I must also boot with acpi=off, but then a bunch of stuff doesn't work at all like the battery monitor, suspend, or proper operation of the power switch. Anybody know why this might be?
* Wireless, which was working in 9.04, is fubar. At least 9 boots out of 10, rather than the wireless adapter showing up as "eth0" as it usually does, it shows up as "eth1-eth0". (Yes, exactly like that, with the dash in the name). When that happens, it doesn't work at all. The KDE network thing doesn't even show its usual settings for wireless, and the "Settings" area for wireless is greyed out. Strangely, every once in a rare while if i reboot, it shows up as "eth0" and then everything is fine, and I can connect with no problems.
Unfortunately, the wireless problem is a showstopper for me. Does anyone have ideas about it? I've been through the Ubuntu wireless faqs, some of which are kind of complicated, but nothing i have found in there has helped me. Even after reading all that stuff, I don't know why the wireless adapter appears as "eth1-eth0" most of the time. I've tried rmmod and modprobe of ipw2200, but it doesn't help.
The acpi problems are not fatal, but are rather annoying, so I'd like to figure that out too.
Thanks for any ideas!
On the plus side, sound worked out the box. Sound *never* works for me out of the box on Linux. Now I've got sound, but no networking. I guess you can't have everything :D.
* Even the install CD won't boot without acpi=off. Once the system is installed, I must also boot with acpi=off, but then a bunch of stuff doesn't work at all like the battery monitor, suspend, or proper operation of the power switch. Anybody know why this might be?
* Wireless, which was working in 9.04, is fubar. At least 9 boots out of 10, rather than the wireless adapter showing up as "eth0" as it usually does, it shows up as "eth1-eth0". (Yes, exactly like that, with the dash in the name). When that happens, it doesn't work at all. The KDE network thing doesn't even show its usual settings for wireless, and the "Settings" area for wireless is greyed out. Strangely, every once in a rare while if i reboot, it shows up as "eth0" and then everything is fine, and I can connect with no problems.
Unfortunately, the wireless problem is a showstopper for me. Does anyone have ideas about it? I've been through the Ubuntu wireless faqs, some of which are kind of complicated, but nothing i have found in there has helped me. Even after reading all that stuff, I don't know why the wireless adapter appears as "eth1-eth0" most of the time. I've tried rmmod and modprobe of ipw2200, but it doesn't help.
The acpi problems are not fatal, but are rather annoying, so I'd like to figure that out too.
Thanks for any ideas!
On the plus side, sound worked out the box. Sound *never* works for me out of the box on Linux. Now I've got sound, but no networking. I guess you can't have everything :D.