Ubuntu Wiki

• Contact: ActiuInformatica

• Brand: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
• Model: F5V-AP097C (P/N)

• Product website: http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=5&l2=24&l3=477&l4=0&model=1703&modelmenu=1

Pending issues

Known hardware

sudo lshw -short

H/W path            Device      Class       Description
=======================================================
                                system      F5V
/0                              bus         F5V
/0/0                            memory      64KiB BIOS
/0/4                            processor   Intel(R) Core(TM) Duo CPU      T2250  @ 1.73GHz
/0/4/5                          memory      64KiB L1 cache
/0/4/6                          memory      2MiB L2 cache
/0/4/0.1                        processor   Logical CPU
/0/4/0.2                        processor   Logical CPU
/0/1b                           memory      1GiB System Memory
/0/1b/0                         memory      512MiB DIMM SDRAM Synchronous
/0/1b/1                         memory      512MiB DIMM SDRAM Synchronous
/0/100                          bridge      671MX
/0/100/1                        bridge      PCI-to-PCI bridge
/0/100/1/0                      display     Mobility Radeon X2300
/0/100/2                        bridge      SiS968 [MuTIOL Media IO]
/0/100/2.5          scsi0       storage     5513 [IDE]
/0/100/2.5/0.0.0    /dev/cdrom  disk        DVD-RAM UJ-860S
/0/100/3                        bus         USB 1.1 Controller
/0/100/3.1                      bus         USB 1.1 Controller
/0/100/3.3                      bus         USB 2.0 Controller
/0/100/5            scsi2       storage     SATA Controller / IDE mode
/0/100/5/0.0.0      /dev/sda    disk        80GB Hitachi HTS54168
/0/100/5/0.0.0/1    /dev/sda1   volume      71GiB EXT3 volume
/0/100/5/0.0.0/2    /dev/sda2   volume      2957MiB Extended partition
/0/100/5/0.0.0/2/5  /dev/sda5   volume      2957MiB Linux swap / Solaris partition
/0/100/6                        bridge      PCI-to-PCI bridge
/0/100/6/0                      network     AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter
/0/100/7                        bridge      PCI-to-PCI bridge
/0/100/d            eth0        network     RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+
/0/100/f                        multimedia  Azalia Audio Controller
/0/1                scsi4       storage     
/0/1/0.0.0          /dev/sdb    disk        xD/SDMMC/MS/Pro
/0/1/0.0.0/0        /dev/sdb    disk        

sudo lspci

00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 671MX
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] PCI-to-PCI bridge
00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS968 [MuTIOL Media IO] (rev 01)
00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev 01)
00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 Controller
00:05.0 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SATA Controller / IDE mode (rev 03)
00:06.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] PCI-to-PCI bridge
00:07.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] PCI-to-PCI bridge
00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
00:0f.0 Audio device: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Azalia Audio Controller
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Mobility Radeon X2300
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)

sudo lsusb (without any external device)

Bus 003 Device 004: ID 0bda:0116 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. 
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 174f:6a31  
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000  
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000  
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 046d:c019 Logitech, Inc. 
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000  

Achievements - results

(*) Notes and recipes

Graphics acceleration/3D

* Ubuntu GNU/Linux 8.04 (Hardy Heron) automatically finds and downloads an ATI restricted driver. You only need to open the restricted hardware drivers tool, activate it and reboot.

Compiz desktop effects

* Works, but system becomes unstable.

Correct audio volume

* Microphone is so low.

Wireless NIC

Automatically offered driver doesn't run well.

1. With Synaptic, install the package "build-essential"

2. Check if Ubuntu has already detected and enabled the Atheros drivers that come with repositories, with the tool for restricted hardware drivers (jockey). Disable all elements related with Atheros.

3. Download a different MadWifi package from http://snapshots.madwifi.org/madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-current.tar.gz

4. With a Terminal window (console), move to the directory where have downloaded the new MadWifi package

5. sudo tar -xzvf madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-current.tar.gz

6. cd madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-current/

7. sudo make

8. Install the new specific driver: sudo make install

9. Restart the computer.

10. With a Terminal window (console) edit the "/etc/modules" file with the command: sudo gedit /etc/modules

11. Add the following lines at the end if doesn't exist:

ath_hal
wlan
ath_pci

See also

CategoryLaptop