I have a laptop with two hard drives (One of them already has a Windows
8 UEFI install). I managed to get it working by removing the win8 drive
from the system (http://yoush.homelinux.org:8079/tech/addremove-linux-
hard-drive-at-runtime) and then adding it back after ubiquity presented
the
After reading some forums, I managed to fix the wireless problem on my
laptop. It consists on activating the Broadcom STA driver. This was easy
on previous versions of Ubuntu, but for some reason when you activate it
on 11.10 it keeps using the same kernel driver. So, after I activated
the driver
I tested the current Oneiric kernel with only 802.11g (again using my
phone's hotspot and an old router). With this kernel I'm unable to
connect to the phone's network and it takes a while to connect to the
old router. If I reboot and use the daily build, I'm able to connect to
both networks (on
I have the same problem on my Alienware M11xR2 (since the 11.10 beta),
and it currently is the main reason that is preventing me from switching
to Ubuntu as my main OS. The speed of my connection seems to change
depending on the number of people connected to the access point, but it
is not stable.
The problem persists in the daily kernel build. However, I noticed that
the error now only shows up if I'm connected to a 5.22 Ghz network. If
I'm connected to a 2.4 Ghz network everything works fine. The previous
kernel had some troubles when connecting to 2.4 Ghz networks. I tested
this using an
