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Installing Kubuntu on a ThinkPad A30

2007-01-08T01:57:57Z

Jstrauss: /* Summary */

= Summary =
I have a {{A30}} (2652-3CU) model. I wanted to install {{Kubuntu}} upon it and get everything working, using the base install as much as possible. That is I didn't want to install a bunch of extra software. I just wanted an 'out of the box' configuration

-updated 2007/01/07 jstrauss

== Update System ==

First things first, edit your /etc/apt/sources.list and uncomment the other sources and get your system up to date

# sudo apt-get update
# sudo apt-get upgrade -y

== Wireless LAN ==

-2007/01/07 - When installing 6.06 of KUbuntu, wpasupplicant is already installed, but you still need
to install hostap-utils

I wanted to use WPA encryption. To get WPA you must use the wpasupplicant module. In order to use the wpasupplicant module you must also use the hostap wireless driver. Kubuntu comes with both the hostap and orinico wireless drivers installed by default. But, you need to install the hostap-utils package because it does a couple of things for you (like blacklisting the orinico driver so it doesn't load on boot and adds another wireless interface).

# sudo apt-get install wpasupplicant hostap_utils -y

=== Rename network interfaces ===
On my machine when I did the install, Kubuntu named the wired LAN eth1 and my wireless eth0. eth0 is usually your wired interface and wlan0 is your wireless. So edit the /etc/iftab file and rename eth1 to eth0 and eth0 to wlan1. Afterwards mine looked like:

root@ubuntu:/# cat /etc/iftab
# This file assigns persistent names to network interfaces. See iftab(5).
eth0 mac 00:d0:59:83:5f:d2
wlan1 mac 00:20:e0:89:8f:e2

=== Using knetworkmanager ===
- 2007/01/07 (Added this section)

You can use knetworkmanager to manage your wireless configuration and skip all the next sections regarding networking.

First install knetworkmanager

# aptitude install knetworkmanager

start it up under K -> internet -> knetworkmanager

Then you need to use the "other wireless networks" to configure. For some reason, WPA is not presented in the dropdown if you just select the ESSID of your network

=== Configure wpa_supplicant ===

You need to add the information to connect to you wireless access point into the /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf file like:

# wpa_passphrase <ssid> <passphrase> >> /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf

in my case it looks like:

# wpa_passphrase StayOffChannelOne my_password >> /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf

=== Edit /etc/network/interfaces ===

Lastly, I you need to change your /etc/network/interfaces to include bringing up wpa_supplicant prior to ifuping wlan0, and change the old entry for eth1 to eth0. Mine looks like:

root@ubuntu:/home/jstrauss# cat /etc/network/interfaces
# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo wlan0
iface lo inet loopback

# This is a list of hotpluggable network interfaces.
# They will be activated automatically by the hotplug subsystem.
mapping hotplug
script grep
map eth0

# The primary network interface
#iface eth0 inet dhcp

iface wlan0 inet dhcp
pre-up wpa_supplicant -i wlan0 -D hostap -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf &
post-down killall wpa_supplicant

** Note ** you should be able to use the /etc/default/wpasupplicant to startup the wpa_supplicant, but I can't get it to work correctly

== Kaffeine & Multimedia ==

By default kaffeine uses the gstreamer engine. Install the kaffeine-xine engine:

# apt-get install kaffeine-xine

Then launch kaffeine and change the engine by:

Settings -> Player Engine -> kaffeine

Installing Kubuntu on a ThinkPad A30

2005-11-20T22:17:52Z

Jstrauss:

= Summary =
I have a A30 (2652-3CU) model. I wanted to install Kubuntu upon it and get everything working, using the base install as much as possible. That is I didn't want to install a bunch of extra software. I just wanted an 'out of the box' configuration

== Update System ==

First things first, edit your /etc/apt/sources.list and uncomment the other sources and get your system up to date

# sudo apt-get update
# sudo apt-get upgrade -y

== Wireless LAN ==

I wanted to use WPA encryption. To get WPA you must use the wpasupplicant module. In order to use the wpasupplicant module you must also use the hostap wireless driver. Kubuntu comes with both the hostap and orinico wireless drivers installed by default. But, you need to install the hostap-utils package because it does a couple of things for you (like blacklisting the orinico driver so it doesn't load on boot and adds another wireless interface).

# sudo apt-get install wpasupplicant hostap_utils -y

=== Rename network interfaces ===
On my machine when I did the install, Kubuntu named the wired LAN eth1 and my wireless eth0. eth0 is usually your wired interface and wlan0 is your wireless. So edit the /etc/iftab file and rename eth1 to eth0 and eth0 to wlan1. Afterwards mine looked like:

root@ubuntu:/# cat /etc/iftab
# This file assigns persistent names to network interfaces. See iftab(5).
eth0 mac 00:d0:59:83:5f:d2
wlan1 mac 00:20:e0:89:8f:e2

=== Configure wpa_supplicant ===

You need to add the information to connect to you wireless access point into the /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf file like:

# wpa_passphrase <ssid> <passphrase> >> /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf

in my case it looks like:

# wpa_passphrase StayOffChannelOne my_password >> >> /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf

=== Edit /etc/network/interfaces ===

Lastly, I you need to change your /etc/network/interfaces to include bringing up wpa_supplicant prior to ifuping wlan0, and change the old entry for eth1 to eth0. Mine looks like:

root@ubuntu:/home/jstrauss# cat /etc/network/interfaces
# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo wlan0
iface lo inet loopback

# This is a list of hotpluggable network interfaces.
# They will be activated automatically by the hotplug subsystem.
mapping hotplug
script grep
map eth0

# The primary network interface
#iface eth0 inet dhcp

iface wlan0 inet dhcp
pre-up wpa_supplicant -i wlan0 -D hostap -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf &
post-down killall wpa_supplicant

** Note ** you should be able to use the /etc/default/wpasupplicant to startup the wpa_supplicant, but I can't get it to work correctly

== Kaffeine & Multimedia ==

By default kaffeine uses the gstreamer engine. Install the kaffeine-xine engine:

# apt-get install kaffeine-xine

Then launch kaffeine and change the engine by:

Settings -> Player Engine -> kaffeine

Installing Kubuntu on a ThinkPad A30

2005-11-20T22:10:34Z

Jstrauss:

Installing Kubuntu on a ThinkPad A30

2005-11-20T21:21:52Z

Jstrauss:

Installing Kubuntu on a ThinkPad A30

2005-11-20T19:27:28Z

Jstrauss:

Category:A30

2005-11-17T14:16:23Z

Jstrauss: /* ThinkPad A30 */

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|style="vertical-align:top" |
<div style="margin: 0; margin-right:10px; border: 1px solid #dfdfdf; padding: 0em 1em 1em 1em; background-color:#F8F8FF; align:right;">
=== ThinkPad A30 ===
This pages gives an overview of all ThinkPad A30 related topics.

For installation instructions for various linux distributions see http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:Distributions

==== Standard Features ====
* [[Intel Mobile Pentium III-M]] 933 MHz, 1.0 or 1.13 GHz CPU
* [[ATI Mobility Radeon 7000]] with 16MB
** 14.1" TFT display with 1024x768 resolution
** 15.0" TFT display with 1024x768 resolution
** 15.0" TFT display with 1400x1050 resolution
* 128 or 256MB memory standard
* 20 or 30GB HDD
* [[CS4299]] AC'97 Audio controller
* [[UltraBay|UltraBay 2000]] (left side) with one of the following:
** none (empty)
** Diskette drive
* [[UltraBay|UltraBay Plus]] (right side) with one of the following:
** CD-ROM drive
** DVD-ROM drive
* [[CDC slot]] 1 with one of the following:
** none (empty)
** [[Ethernet Daughter Card (EDC)]]
* [[CDC slot]] 2 with one of the following:
** none (empty)
** [[Modem Daughter Card (MDC)]]
* [[MiniPCI slot]] with one of the following:
** none (empty)
** [[IBM High Rate Wireless LAN Mini-PCI Adapter with Modem]]
</div>
|style="vertical-align:top" |
[[image:ThinkPadA30.jpg|ThinkPad A30]]
|}

* [ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/pc/pccbbs/mobiles_pdf/92p1902.pdf ThinkPad A30/p, A31/p Hardware Maintenance Manual (September 2003)] (3,354,819 Bytes)
[[Category:Models]]