I have Acer Aspire 5024WLMi with X700 256MB.
This weekend was pretty boring and so thought of trying out latest Ubuntu 6.06.
installation was quite simple. Just put the cd. and boot from it.
In my laptop, only safemode booting was fine.
After booting up the system, you can try out different things like settings, games etc.
If you feel like installing, just click on the button Install on the desktop.
Once installation started, it takes few inputs like keyboard layout, language etc.
Then comes the partitioning.
After installation is done , I booted into Ubuntu. Its really cool. Everything is very simple.
I initially got few problems with my wlan connectivity.
These are the steps I followed.
-> echo 'blacklist bcm43xx' | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
-> modprobe ndiswrapper
-> Get WIN 64bit wireless lan driver
-> Get acer_acpi
-> install acer_acpi
-> install 64bit driver using ndiswrapper
-> modprobe ndiswrapper, acer_acpi
-> echo "enable : 1 > /proc/acpi/acer/wireless"
-> then create /etc/default/wpasupplicant
ENABLED = 1
-> edit /etc/network/interfaces to
auto eth1 iface eth1 inet dhcp pre-up wpa_supplicant -B -w -Dndiswrapper -ieth1 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf post-down killall -q wpa_supplicant ->
then add to /etc/rc.d
echo "enabled : 1 > /proc/acpi/acer/wireless" ifup eth1
-> add to /etc/modules
ndiswrapper
acer_acpi
-> add to /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
network={
ssid="Mahesh"
psk="KEY"
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
proto=WPA
}
Thats it....
net is working now..
now start upgrading ur machine with different packages..
http://www.ehomeupgrade.com/entry/2663/how-to_get_full
http://monkeyblog.org/ubuntu/installing/
Mahesh
