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Hi, just got a 510 and have installed 2 gig and Karmic Koala beta. Installed over all the existing partitions. Haven’t got the wireless working yet but have it connected via cable to home LAN (currently writing this with firefox). Need to resolve issues with the Fn Keys. Volume control OK but the rest are a problem. Will keep posting as I resolve the issues. Anyone been here before? Battery seems fine currently 4 hours 55 mins at 88% I will charge it to 100% and see how long it lasts. Ion LE reporting 512 MB memory and System Memory 1.7 GiB. Screen Resolution 1366 X 768. Nothing too serious to be done to get things up and running. The 510 is as close to perfect a netbook as you can get right now. Thinking of installing Win7 and XP Pro on separate partitions if anyone is interested.
For the Fn keys you may want to take a look at this thread, just add N510 instead of N120. It will also be interesting as to whether the N510 also suffers from the key release issue.
Though you shouldn’t have to worry about KMS interfering with the brightness control (though this seems to have ben solved recently) as I don’t think KMS can be enabled with an Nvidia graphics card/chipset due to driver issues, what will be interesting though is whether you can control the brightness. You could try testing this by adding the brightness applet to one of the panels if the Fn keys don’t work.
Oh and although it is mentioned that setting the brightness mode control to “user control” fixes some things you may not need to do this, I would try without changing that setting.
EDIT: You could try running “lspci -v | grep -i network” to find out which wireless card you have, so as to find out whether there are drivers available or work arounds.
Alfihar, thanks I will have a look and give it all a try. This is my first ubuntu installation so just finding my way around and grateful for all the help I can get. Looking for a workaround now.
have a look at the details in my thread here.
these patches *should* help you
Be very careful when using those packages as the N510 is quite different from the NC10. The chipset/graphics, wireless, screen, touchpad (probably) and various other components are different. The only thing I would install would be the nc10-scripts and even then it may be better to manually add the scripts as many of them will likely need to be modified as they load/unload specific modules which are hardware specific.
Thanks Rachael B, Thanks Alfihar. Will try, but not had much luck with this so far. Will keep on trying till I get it right.
Hi,
I am very interested in the N510 and this is the 1st post I find talking about ubuntu on n510 !
May I ask if every thing work fine now?
did you solve your wifi problems?
does everything else work fine? network, webcam etc …?
does the ion video acceleration works fine?I am so curious!! 😉
Hi wysiwyg31, I havent got the wireless working yet. But everything else is fine aside from the keyborad brightness keys etc The Iin Chipset and Atom Processor works fine as doea the nvidia chip. Desktop Cube etc all work perfectly as does sound. Not used the webcam yet buy I wil check it and let you know. Still looking for a way of getting the wireless up and running.
All works with XP and Windows 7 without any problems.
Hi JamesEdward, thank you for your answers !
I had also a couple of information from this forum
The guy there told me that wifi seems to work (but not tested).Regarding XP or 7…well, I am on the light side now…I decided 2years ago to use only opensource OS 😉 but this is not the topic here.
I have heard that last kernell helped a lot for some wifi /network issue on the eee 1101 for instance.
Maybe the final Karmic (non-beta), may solve your issue? (d-day – 4)By the way, did you get something interesting from “lspci -v | grep -i net” ?
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For the Fn keys you may want to take a look at this thread, just add N510 instead of N120. It will also be interesting as to whether the N510 also suffers from the key release issue.
[/quote1256551934]With a minor alteration, this fix works for the N510. I had to create a separate ‘match’ section just for the N510, and only included the keys corresponding to brightness up/down and for displaying power information:
Code:e008:brightnessup
e009:brightnessdown
e003:battery…
If I just added N510 to the other section as recommended for the N120, I had some issues with the keyboard becoming unresponsive after pressing certain shortcuts.
I got Wireless working very well with ndiswrapper using the XP driver. There are plenty on tutorials on the net. It was pretty easy for a Linux noob like me. My n510 is a UK version with the Realtek chip.
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