So, I tried several ubuntus, Dapper 64, Breezy i386, Breezy 64 Breezy i386 was the easiest to get things working, but I wanted 64 bit OS for 64 bit cpu. I had 2 problems with 64 bit installs, the wireless, and lack of pre-compiled apps. I found (with breezy atleast, I started wtih dapper 64 i hadnt found them...) repositories with stuff i needed. the only problem with the breezy 64 install was wifi. I has seen several reports of wifi working with this laptop, and figured it would be easy. It was not easy... it took me about 20 hours of reading and testing before I figured out all the problems (old ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper-tools/, windows provided 64 bit drivers that are not, experimenting with different drivers that *might* work). But alas, I won out, and found a 64 bit driver that is working right now! After I got the wireless working, i had to fix an acpi issue (ndiswraper wouldnt work unless acpi was enabled) It took a copule more hours, but i think i have it at bay (was filling logs at ~1MB/hr.) To fix it all i had to do was change out my dsdt for my acpi (look it up... what a pain!).
However, i can now say that with enough tweeking, you too can run wireless on a Turion based laptop with a Broadcom 4318 based wireless card in an acer 5002WLMi with Ubuntu Breezy AMD64 version. Now... to try this with dapper 64.... maybe tommorow! Jamie _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
