Ok guys, Here are a few problems that I ran into trying to install Ubuntu Hardy on an Acer 5052. Tried some help in the irc channel but failed to make any progress.
Here goes: System details: AMD Turion. x64 architecture. 512 ram. 120 GB HDD. ATI graphics card. Has win xp on one partition and works well. Got infected with several viruses. Attempted removal. Success. Infection again. Gto fed up and wishes to try ubuntu linux. Problem 1: Unable to connect to the internet. The net connection at my workplace is thru airtel adsl modem thats distributed by a Lan router (wired). one Pc on win xp and another laptop on win vista connect successfully. My laptop with ubuntu hardy connects as well. But the acer laptop doesn't. Tried dhcp, manual configuration but nothing works. Attempted direct connection to the airtel modem but that doesn;t help as well. THe ethernet card is realtek (RTL 8139). Problem 2: acpi=off option to run the laptop or even install ubuntu. But this means he is unable to shut off the system, it hangs. Am aware that acer_acpi needs to be installed. But without net connection this is not possible. However since the deb files can be downloaded from the repositories. I was wondering if that would help restore acpi functionality. The worry were the dependencies! acer_acpi has been superseded with acer_wmi in ibex but thats good two months away. Sorry about being so verbose, but in my case the quiet=off most of the time! Help needed, critical to get his system going otherwise he is likely to fall back on win xp!! Cheers, orthodoc -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
