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[KoviRobi]

Hi I am running it on slax on a 1gb pendrive (same amilo li1718). I have a Wlna problem too. I have tried that http://fscamiloa16xx.googlecode.com/files/fsca16xx.sh , but then I had to install SUDO, but to install sudo I had ro install LPAM, but to install lpam I had to install Lex/YYAC, but I did not found any installers on that. Any help is appreciated.

[thenag]

Hi,

I recently got an Amilo 1718 and went through a fresh Hardy (Ubuntu 8.04) install onto this. As we all know, the base install's easy - it's the wireless etc that is a bit more tricky. To save anyone else going through the same pain(!), I thought I'd post the steps I went through below. I know someone else who has just got an Amilo 1718 as well, and he followed the same instructions which worked fine for him too.

This is all out there in some shape or form, but I thought it might be worth posting to have in one place. This will give you video acceleration (with the Radeon 200M), wireless (Atheros 5007EG with hotkeys working) and audio (worked from the start). Sorry if this is duplicating anything, but I figure if it helps one person it's worth it!

Pre-requisites

Free space on disk - either shrink Vista partition using disk manager in Vista, or another tool, or delete it
Go into BIOS at boot time and turn Wireless Option to On (not sure if this makes a difference, but I did it anyway)

1. Install Ubuntu 8.04 from install CD
2. When fully installed and rebooted, log in
3. Plug in ethernet cable and ensure connectivity (bar at top will show network icon and status)
4. Start terminal (gnome-terminal/xterm/whatever)
5. 'sudo aptitude update' (will update package list from repositories to bring in list of latest versions). This runs periodically anyway, but this will force it now.
6. update notification will appear in top bar showing all updated packages. Double click and let it do this OR type 'sudo aptitude upgrade' to do it from command line
7. Once all updates are in, reboot the box (we are doing this mainly for the kernel updates so we have the latest kernel, and to install the wireless driver)
8. Once the machine is back up, follow the steps below:


Network

Enable Hotkeys

Open terminal:

wget http://fscamiloa16xx.googlecode.com/svn ... sca16xx.sh
chmod 755 fsca16xx.sh
sudo ./fsca16xx.sh setup

Check the line

options acerhk force_series=6805 autowlan=1

in /etc/modprobe.d/options is present. If not, add it.

Log out and back in again


Install and configure Madwifi (wireless driver)

- disable built in OS Atheros support using Restricted manager
- System / Administration / Hardware Drivers - ensure that enabled is not checked beside atheros support

- download MadWifi from branch madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6 (https://svn.madwifi.org/madwifi/branche ... -0.10.5.6/)
- special tarball already prepared at http://snapshots.madwifi.org/special/ma ... 604.tar.gz
- this contains the new HAL supporting the Atheros 5007. Don't use the madwifi-ng-r2756+ar5007.tar.gz or other. These have problems with the new kernels. The one above is the one you want. It is the latest version, and supports the 5007 out the box without being a patched version of something else.
- from the madwifi lists, this "is currently in a branch, but should hopefully, barring any other issues, be migrated to trunk soon."

- expand this into a directory on your disk (keep this after you have installed - see IMPORTANT below!)

- make clean

- sudo make install - this should remove older modules installed as part of linux-restricted-modules-generic
if not, do sudo make uninstall OR
manually sudo rmmod or sudo modprobe -r on ath_pci and ath_hal

- blacklist ath5k module in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

- make sure Wireless button is ON!

- sudo modprobe ath_pci to install module

- network manager (icon in bar at top) should show networks when left clicked. If not, right click and check wireless is an option.

If you hit any problems, to validate underlying driver is there:

- use lscpi -vv, lspci -vnnd 168c: and athinfo to test if needed

- iwconfig should show existence of ath0 device


Will NEED reboot to load new HAL if old HAL was loaded, so if in doubt, reboot (then check wireless is ON - LED on bottom row of keyboard)

Notes

- When you get "Hardware didn't respond as expected" it's a sign that you have some other driver that
tried to initialize the chipset and failed. Even the new HAL cannot recover the card after that. The
system needs to be rebooted. But first make sure that no other version of MadWifi is installed.
- if you can't get this working, NDISwrapper can handle this card too. I found the steps below, but haven't used them myself.
- if driver is required for NDISWrapper, use download http://www.atheros.cz/download/drivers/ ... 6-whql.zip
- unzip it, run ndiswrapper -i net5211.inf

IMPORTANT

Important note around system kernel updates

The new driver has been installed as a kernel module. When the kernel is updated, or the generic modules updates, this can often remove this dependency and mean the wireless doesn't work on the next reboot after an update.

In this case, use the directory with the driver in it (you kept this from above, hopefully!). Just follow the steps again.

make clean
sudo make install
sudo modprobe ath_pci

(if you have problems - you may need to remove the old one by sudo rmmod ath_pci and reboot first)

That's the module rebuilt for the new kernel and reinstalled. Shouldn't take you more than about 20 seconds. Once they integrate the 5007 functions into the main madwifi trunk then this should hopefully just come down via the updates. Until then, we'll have to do this. It's not that much of a pain... honest!


ATI Driver

Get the driver from here http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/linu ... adeon.html
Make sure you turn off any existing support in the Restricted manager first
Install the new driver

(I have tried everything else (built in support, EnvyNG etc). Nothing worked except this. Needs a full shutdown and restart (so the hardware powers down, not just soft restart) after install. Not sure why, but on the twice I have done this the new driver and acceleration won't kick in until this has happened.)

If you want the desktop effects on, just switch them via the menus
Install compizconfig-settings-manager via Synaptic / whatever other way you like
Use System > Preferences > Advanced Desktop Effects Settings to play about to your heart's content... there's some nice stuff there!

[roadrash]

Madwifi have now released a fully working set of drivers that work for the Li1718 & they will be included with the next Intrepid Ibex release in October. The only thing the user will have to do is install the AcerHK module to enable the special buttons where one of them enables/disables the wireless. There is a script that will do that easy enaough.
Thanks to damagedspline I have been able to get a fully working install script that will enable wireless on all final versions of Ubuntu right up to Hardy Heron on the Li1718. It will also work for linux Mint as well.

[G3niE]

Hello everyone,

I'm not completely new to Ubuntu or Linux in general (have tried Gentoo a little bit).

I really like Ubuntu Hardy Heron and in fact need it for school(a Linux course).

I've had just about the exact same problems as everyone else with my Li1718, the buttons don't really don't work and my Atheros wireless card isn't working at all.

I've tried SEVERAL methods for setting up the wireless stuff and all have failed so far, and the stuff that most people talk about here as working, doesn't work for me.
I fear that my misinformed atempts thus far are conflicting with scripts and such that have been released to fix the problem so I'm kind of stuck.
I'd really rather not make a clean install and start over because I'd have to backup some of the web sited I'm programming and pictures and other stuff that i have on the system right now, not to mention all the tweaking done to beautify the whole brown Ubuntu thing.

Any way.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I've so far tried to setup MadWifi, the acerhk stuff by following tutorials and it didn't work, so i tried the scripts 'fsca16xx.sh' and such, found a tarball called hotkey-setup_0.1-17ubuntu21.tar.gz wich obviously didn't work and i've tried the XP drivers using ndiswrapper. Nothing works.

If someone could tell me the information you need to see were i stand and the next steps after that it would be great!

Thank you in advance,

Heiðar Eiríksson
"G3niE"
Webprogrammer,
http://www.eskill.is
heidar@eskill.is / heidar_e@hotmail.com

[Ubuntu810]

Hi everyone,
I recently changed from the *toobadforwords* vista to Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.0.4
It had many errors on it: sound, 3D graphic, WiFi connectivity & hotkeys
I just tried the pre-release upgrade (not for production machines!!!!) of 8.10 beta
WiFi is ok
hotkeys are ok
3D graphics aren't checked yet... but i'm working on it
only the sound seems to be a problem now
I tried oss => test sound = ok in totem & other;
but no sound on e.g. youtube (may be normal, but i don't know; i'm a newbie to linux)
alsa only gives cracking bits
so, is anyone here who can give me proper advice to the sound part?
cheers
thanks in advance

[roadrash]

This excellent news. I will have to give it try. Did the wifi & Hotkeys work from the live cd or did you have to install it to your hard drive to get it working?

[Ubuntu810]

i did the upgrade to 8.10 through the update manager after the full install of 8.0.4 from a live cd on my hd
so i can't tell you
do you have a clue for my sound issue?

[hikaru]

Where did you get your flashplugin from?
It's a well known problem that the sound doesn't work with the plugin that you get from the Adobe-site. Install flashplugin-nonfree via synaptic, apt or aptitude.

[Ubuntu810]

hang on...
i'll try this first in my alsa-base
options snd-hda-intel model=3stack
I'll reboot & come back later
update: alsa-base had no results
youtube still doesn't play sounds (after installing the nonfreeflash)
oss works at playback in totem but still no alsa
this is what i get
audiotestsrc wave=sine freq=512 ! audioconvert ! audioresample ! gconfaudiosink: Could not get/set settings from/on resource.
any ideas?

[hikaru]

Have you ininstalled the adobe-plugin first (deleted the file /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/flashplugin-FTW.so)
If not, delete the file and reinstall flashplugin-nonfree.

Another idea (translating from a german system, so don't hit me igf it's not correct):
Do you have System -> Settings -> Audio -> Tone -> Mix Tones via Software (ESD) checked?
If yes, uncheck it and reboot.

[Ubuntu810]

the file you mentioned was not in that directory... youtube still doesn't play the sounds (video = ok)
and i am using epiphany as browser...
& you're referring to hardy heron for the audio, i guess, cuz there's no option to (un)check in system-preferences-sound...
but i've found a new option at services... audio managment...
I'll keep on looking for anwsers...

[hikaru]

the file you mentioned was not in that directory... youtube still doesn't play the sounds (video = ok)

The file may be called differently. I only know for sure that it starts with flash and ends with .so

& you're referring to hardy heron for the audio, i guess, cuz there's no option to (un)check in system-preferences-sound...

No, actually I referred to gutsy gibbon because this still runs in the virtual box that I can check right now. And it's also there in debian etch. I didn't know that ubuntu went that far away from debian now.

But maybe you will just have to accept that intrepid ibex currently is the beta-version of a debian unstable-fork that just needs another month to become half way stable.

[Ubuntu810]

The file may be called differently. I only know for sure that it starts with flash and ends with .so

do i have to delete the flashpluginalternate?

I didn't know that ubuntu went that far away from debian now.
But maybe you will just have to accept that intrepid ibex currently is the beta-version of a debian unstable-fork that just needs another month to become half way stable.

the intrepid ibex is far from finished...
but with good help it'll be stable in 3 weeks
and now all sound has collapsed, even no oss anymore...

[hikaru]

The flashplugin-alternative.so is what flashplugin-nonfree stored there. If you delete it, you will have to reinstall the plugin to make flash work again. But maybe the adobe-installer (if you used it when you first installed flash) left some other file there that caused a conflict now.

Can you please post the output of?:

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ls /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins

Do you have sound from other sources (e.g. mp3-files on your HDD)?

[Ubuntu810]

outcome:
flashplugin-alternative.so libtotem-mully-plugin.so
libtotem-basic-plugin.so libtotem-narrowspace-plugin.so
libtotem-gmp-plugin.so

only one cd on my hd (copied yesterday to my hd).... so those files are .oga
my sound is totally gone now... so i'll try my alsa-base again