Maverick (10.10)

This is the first release that supports MAC spoofing which I need for my cable service. The network manager applet seems to be very fussy and is prone to disappear from the notification area. In my case it turns out that I had some config data in /etc/network/interfaces and so NM applet passive-aggressively just decided to take its ball and go home. This helped: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager-applet/+bug/577678

Move the window frame controls back to where they should be: http://ftbeowulf.wordpress.com/2010/03/21/ubuntu-10-04-window-controls/

Play DVD's: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/PlayingDVDs

Sound worked!

Dell Inspiron 7500

Xircom double-height PCMCIA ethernet/modem card works great for Ethernet.

The installer asked for the resolutions to run at. I added 1400x1050 and 1280x1024 to the defaults because I didn't know what the resolution of the panel was.

Thinkpad 770E

No sound. Everything else works.

http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Installation_instructions_for_the_ThinkPad_770

Toshiba Portege 7010CT (with docking station)

Resolution too low, but dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and set the resolution to 1024x768 and bit depth to 16.

The ethernet interface in the docking station works fine.

Sound works!

Ubuntu configures X with 24-bit colors but this machine doesn't have enought memory to support that, so you end up with a display running at 800x600 which is very ugly. You need to dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and set the pixel depth to 16 to get the panel's native 1024x768.

Modems

If you're able to, use an external modem on the serial port.

The ubuntu graphical config tool is brittle. It works, but if anything goes wrong it doesn't give you any feedback. It's a good idea to get things working with minicom first and then move over to the graphical config tools.

Dial: ATDT<number>
hang up: ATH0

http://web.archive.org/web/20040701150100/users.binary.net/dturley/linux/easylinux.html - some notes from the wayback machine

Dell Inspiron 3500

No sound - http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=135620

Dell Latitude CPi 266XT

<fn>-F1 at boot time to get into the BIOS config.

Tried to use a 3com 3C562B/3C563B network card but had no luck. Not sure what the problem was. Appeared to configure fine, but couldn't see any traffic.

Not sure if I got a bad CDROM drive, but upgrading over a network was faster than reading the files from the CD.

General

If you want to upgrade a 5.10 installation to 6.06 using a CD you need to use the "alternate" install disc. The "live" install disc won't work. Otherwise you'll need to use the network, which can take many hours on a slow connection.

Laptop Model Specific

Thinkpad 600E

6.06 installation from the live disk didn't work. "ubiquity" hung after choosing the keyboard. There was a zombie process that looked like an X keyboard selection program (but I didn't write it down at the time). Installation from the 5.10 disc worked fine, so I expect that text-mode installation of 6.06 would also work.

-- Main.tobyc - 06 Jul 2006