Just an update, I have managed to get it to work but I am unsure which of the 2 changes I made, well, made the difference.
On my eeePC netbook I currently have 2 separate installs, 1 for Kubuntu Netbook Edition 10.04 and another for Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.04 (both final versions). With Ubuntu I noticed that there was an issue where you had to edit the following file (administrative access via sudo is required to edit it): /etc/default/grub and making sure that the line GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX contains "acpi_osi=Linux" in between the quotes listed for this command in the grub file. Once you have saved the file you need to run the command "sudo update-grub" and reboot your OS to ensure the changes have gone through. This change allowed me to simply press Fn + F2 and enable my wireless as well as being able to use the other function keys available. This is one of the changes I made within Kubuntu and I believe is what made things work. The second thing I did was connect my netbook via a dedicated Ethernet cable and installed an application called eee-control (www.ubuntugeek.com/howto-install-eee-control-in- ubuntu-9-10-karmic.html) to control certain features such as power management. I have a feeling this was an extraneous step as I was able to use my wireless network card and function keys without additional software installed when I changed the grub file under my Ubuntu partition/install. With both these options performed I simply pressed the correct combination of function keys (and was notified if I had turned wifi on or off) and then right clicked on the network connections menu and ensured that the Enable wireless option was checked and if not to check it off and then proceed to add a wireless network connection via the Network Manager. -- Unable to enable wireless in a straight forward manner on netbook https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/533106 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to plasma-widget-networkmanagement in ubuntu. -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs
