Thanks Nick,
I installed 5.1 as I don't have 6.06 media yet.
I did have a quick look over the ubuntu wiki and a number of other sites
on the subject. I found lots of references to an intel chip, however,
per my question below, I suspect I'm not using an intel chip set.
Joanna and I have found recently that HP don't ship the same hardware
under the same model number to all parts of the world. Having learnt
this lesson I thought I'd just post to list for anyone who's had some
personal experience with a machine purchased in NZ recently.
INSTALLATION REVIEW
I'm still not that impressed with ubuntu's installer. I used MDK10 to
do the disk patitioning work first. I am still impressed by just how
well and easy MDK10 is to install and its funcitonality in the
installation area.
I then over wrote the mdk install with ubuntu 5.1 and did the upgrades
on line.
It seemed to get all the hardware bar the wifi (which is why I'm not
using it this morning and am emailing from my XP set up).
I found that u5 mounted the ntfs pats as read only/root access. What
the point is in that I don't know. It took me 10 minutes to fix after I
realised that I had to umount it before u5 would let me remount it with
read access for all users (per ubuntu wiki - yes, a very useful site).
I have forgoten where the feature is to do the update to u6.06, thou
after my last experience I'm a little hesitant and wondering if I should
wait till it becomes a little more stable.
Cheers Don
Nick Rout wrote:
which version of ubuntu? i believe 6.06 has the driver for thta card as it is
in very recent kernels. 5.10 doesn't. ubuntu wiki covers it well.
On Sun, 09 Jul 2006 23:57:45 +1200
Don Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Has anyone set up wifi on one of these new HP laptops in ubuntu and know
what the required driver is?
I did an lspci and I assume that the chip is the broadcom entry,
No, I haven't googled, I only just got ubuntu installed in the last 10
minutes, this is just a quick mail incase someone else has done it
before and can just point me in the right direction.
Cheers Don
lspci gives me this...
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/don# lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. Mobile Memory Controller Hub (rev
03)
0000:00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp. Mobile Graphics
Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corp. Mobile Graphics Controller
(rev 03)
0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6
Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6
Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6
Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6
Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6
Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev d3)
0000:00:1e.2 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp.
82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1e.3 Modem: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family)
AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801FBM (ICH6M) LPC Interface
Bridge (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6
Family) IDE Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family)
SMBus Controller (rev 03)
0000:06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
0000:06:06.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation: Unknown device
4318 (rev 02)
0000:06:09.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments: Unknown device 8031
0000:06:09.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments: Unknown device
8032
0000:06:09.3 Unknown mass storage controller: Texas Instruments: Unknown
device 8033
0000:06:09.4 0805: Texas Instruments: Unknown device 8034
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