Installing Kubuntu on a ThinkPad A30

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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 the orinico wireless driver installed by default). 

 $ sudo apt-get install wpasupplicant hostap_utils -y

On my machine when I did the install Kubuntu named the wired LAN eth1 and my wireless eth0 which I didn't like

Unfortunately wpasupplicant doesn't work with the orinico driver. Fortunantely the hostap driver The orinico driver does not support WPA. To use WPA I needed to install the hostap driver and wpa_suppplicant

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