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I’ve been playing around with karmic on my samsung netbook, and thought I’d post some of the things I’ve found, in case they’re any help.
brightness function keys
If you are running the latest bios, the FN+up keys work fine to adjust the brightness. I have only found a windows version of the installer for the bios at the samsung website but I’m sure you can do it from inside linux somehow.You should also go into bios and change the “auto dim” setting to manual/disabled, to stop linux dimming the screen when you dont want it it.
Finally on this, if the maximum brightness in linux seems low, you should put the brightness up as high as possible at the bootloader stage.
Two finger scrolling
The settings for the touchpad can be found by running terminal (alt-F2 type terminal and select the terminal from the dropdown) and typing “gpointing-device-settings”. In here, you can set two finger scrolling and it works! Crazy, since I thought it was impossible on the n110.I’ll post anything else interesting that I find.
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Network manager requesting key to unlock
On standard install, every time network manager tries to connect to your wifi, it prompts for a password. This is not too much hassle, but there is a simple solution. If you go into synaptics package manager, search for and install “wcid”. This is an alternative network manager that doesnt have this problem but works fine.Hey. I’m also running karmic on an N110. An alternative to wcid is to set the keyring password to blank (just hit enter when it first asks you to set one), which presumably leaves your network key open for anyone to see but does resolve the issue of it asking for a password.
I’ve not worked out how to update the bios yet. I don’t want to run a windows based program to adjust the bios, previous experience suggests that trusting windows with this is a mistake. I’ll post here if I find an OS independent approach.
I can’t get into gnome reliably, this seems to be an issue with karmic rather than with the laptop. Otherwise the system is being boringly reliable.
Hey JonJ – I’d be interested to know if you do find a way to update the bios without windows (as i want to remove win7 at some point).
How does the wifi work for you? With the default install, I find it a bit buggy and flaky. For example, I have just booted into ubuntu and every page was taking ages to load up, but in win7, its all fine.
I’m going to have a look for some different drivers.
Hi,
I’m following your experience with great interest as I have 9.10 Netbook Remix installed on my Sammy n310. Unfortunately the latest BIOS for n310 is 04BA which does NOT fix the brightness control issue. Do you think the NC10 Bios will work with the n310 ? Crazy idea I know but without brightness control my already limited 4-cell battery plunges 🙁
I definitely wouldn’t try flashing the nc10 bios to the n310. I doubt it would allow you to, and if it did, I doubt your pc would boot!
In my ubuntu travels, if i see any ideas for you, i will post back.
I haven’t done thorough testing, but I think that I have fixed my flaky wifi issue (by editing a text file). I will have a couple of days play with it and see what happens – if it’s successful, then I’ll post the solution.fixed network flakiness
I’ve been testing for a couple of days now, and it seems that the instructions at this page: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Device/AR5007 have worked to stabilise my network connection.
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