Thinking Of A New Ultra Portable Purchase

I have been thinking lately it’s time to get something ultra portable.  What I’m looking for is something small and light, with enough beef to work on a remote location.  Even though I love my Toshiba, when trying to be mobile even a 15″ is too big and heavy to comfortably log around.

I have been working of my laptop for close to two years now, and besides the fact that a two year old machine is out of date, I want to be able to work anywhere.  Also the glare in the screen of this Toshiba really bothered me today when I was planing on working outside.  For the first time in years I have been looking for something else then Toshiba.  When looking at laptops to replace this one, the Lenovo line keeps popping up and I must say I love what I’m seeing there.  They are finally stepping away from that dreadful boxy look that we are used to from IBM Lenovo.  I have yet to actually put my hands on one but the design of the new Lenovo lines look really awesome.  Take the Lenovo  IdeaPad S10-3 for instance.  I love the way that keyboard looks.  But when reading Mark Shuttleworth Blog about gestures with multitouch in Ubuntu 10.10, I suddenly could also consider the IdeaPad S10-3t.  The S10-3t has you guessed it a touchscreen.  Lenovo calls it a tablet,  which you could call it even after Steve said a tabled is has no keyboard.

Sound problem fixed.

As said I have a A205-S5825 Toshiba Laptop, and I was surprised when sound worked out of the box but dmix didn’t. Haven’t been able to find why but today I had some extra time and I finally fixed it.

Description of the problem:

Normally ALSA(Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) will install Dmix out of the box and it will work right away in this case for some reason it didn’t. Possibly because of an issue during installation of the OS.

How to get Atheros AR242x wireless to work. 2

**10-23-2008** This how to still uses madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-current.tar.gz And has been tested by me and works for (K)Ubuntu 8.0.4.1(both x86-64 and i686) with kernel 2.6.24-21-generic. And once again every one who has problems please re-try the how to.

**09-17-2008** Thanks to Gideon, who told me the links weren’t working any more. This how to now uses madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-current.tar.gz As always this revision has been tested by me and works for (K)Ubuntu 8.0.4.1(both x86-64 and i686) with kernel 2.6.24-19-generic. And once again every one who has problems please re-try the how to.

**09-03-2008** This How to now uses the newest snapshot madwifi-hal-2008-08-15-r3862-20080903.tar.gz. As always this revision has been tested by me and works for (K)Ubuntu 8.0.4.1(both x86-64 and i686) with kernel 2.6.24-19-generic.

**09-01-2008** This How to now uses the newest snapshot madwifi-hal-2008-08-15-r3851-20080829.tar.gz. If you posted a comment to say it isn’t working then please re-run everything. And report back to verify that the solution is now working for you. As always this revision has been tested by me and works for (K)Ubuntu 8.0.4.1 with kernel 2.6.24-19-generic.

This is a revision of my original post using the solution provided by Madwifi it’s been tested by me and it works.

Windows drivers are here

If you own the same laptop as I do, a Toshiba A205-S5825, then you probably have the same problem, if you are using Hardy or Gutsy with the newest Kernel(2.6.24-19-generic) or older, the wireless doesn’t work out of the box.

It cost me about an hour to solve this mainly because no one knew anything about this particular chipset.

So here is the solution for the AR242x. If you have a chipset in the A5700 series then this could work for you too.

The solution is quite simple and only takes you a couple of minutes to apply and then you can use your wireless.

For this How to you do need wired internet to the computer.

How to get Atheros AR242x wireless to work.

Windows drivers are here

Aug 18 2008: This is a The old version and this solution isn’t recommended anymore please use: the solution in my new post it’s been tested by me and it works.

If you own the same laptop as I do, a Toshiba A205-S5825, then you probably have the same problem, if you are using Hardy or Gutsy with the newest Kernel(2.6.24-19-generic) or older, the wireless doesn’t work out of the box.

It cost me about an hour to solve this mainly because no one knew anything about this particular chipset.

So here is the solution for the AR242x. If you have a chipset in the A5700 series then this could work for you too.

The solution is quite simple and only takes you a couple of minutes to apply and then you can use your wireless.

For this How to you do need wired internet to the computer.