[UFO Chicago] ubuntu on new dell laptop

[David Fourer]

I enjoyed the meeting at the pancake house Thursday night.  I think I
could do that on a regular basis.

Regarding my install of ubuntu on a new Dell laptop, here's what I've
done.  The best place for this seems to be the ubuntu hardware forum,
but maybe one or two of you will have comments.  I'm learning some of
the really simple stuff, like how to change user, at the same time that
I'm doing this.  It's slow.
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Installed Ubuntu on Dell Inspiron 6000. Trying to get the wireless and
touchpad working right. 

The touchpad works if I'm slow and deliberate, but if I move the mouse
quickly, it registers a tap, which mean's I've clicked randomly on a
link or move the cursor randomly.  I would be happy to dissable all tap
function if this will fix it. I looked in the bios for some simple
adjustments and didn't find much. There is an ubuntu
SynapticsTouchpadHowto but I don't know if it applies.  I changed
**Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"** to false and see no difference.  See
below. 
Abbreviated bash shell printouts follow: 

david at davidf:~$ cat /proc/bus/input/devices 

I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0008 Version=0000 
N: Name="PS/2 Mouse" 
P: Phys=isa0060/serio1/input1 
H: Handlers=mouse0 event1 ts0 
B: EV=7 
B: KEY=70000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 
B: REL=3 

I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0008 Version=7321 
N: Name="AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint" 
P: Phys=isa0060/serio1/input0 
H: Handlers=mouse1 event2 ts1 
B: EV=f 
B: KEY=420 0 70000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 
B: REL=3 
B: ABS=1000003 
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david at davidf:/etc/X11$ cat xorg.conf 
# /etc/X11/xorg.conf (xorg X Window System server configuration file) 
# 
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool,
using 
Section "InputDevice" 
Identifier "Configured Mouse" 
Driver "mouse" 
Option "CorePointer" 
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" 
Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2" 
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true" 
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" 
EndSection 

Section "InputDevice" 
Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad" 
Driver "synaptics" 
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true" 
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" 
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev" 
Option "HorizScrollDelta" "0" 
EndSection 
Section "ServerLayout" 
Identifier "Default Layout" 
Screen "Default Screen" 
InputDevice "Generic Keyboard" 
InputDevice "Configured Mouse" 
InputDevice "Synaptics Touchpad" 
EndSection 

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Now for the wireless. I found the driver and ndiswrapper.  Bash shell
printouts follow 

I have Dell Inspiron 6000, Dell Wireless 1370 WLAN MiniPCI card 
Broadcom BCM4318[Airforce One 54g] 802.11   The driver files are
bcmwl5.inf and bcmwl5.sys

david at davidf:/$ ndiswrapper -l 
Installed ndis drivers: 
bcmwl5 driver present 

It should say "driver present, hardware present".  

Should I look for newer or older versions of the driver with the same
file name?

lspci 
0000:03Network controller: Broadcom Corp: Unknown Device 4318 (rev 02) 
lspci -n 
0000:03:03.0 0280: 14e4:4318 (rev 02) 

david at davidf:/$ iwconfig 
lo no wireless extensions. 

eth0 no wireless extensions. 

sit0 no wireless extensions. 
nothing about Wlan0 

This thread seems to have helped a lot of people: 
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=25683 

at the end of this process I get: 
(for conffile in /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/*.conf; do) 
sudo cat $conffile | sed -e 's/RadioState|1/RadioState|0/' > $conffile 
Password:bash: $conffile: ambiguous redirect 

Maybe I need to go through it again carefully 
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On the good side, I got standby-to-ram and standby-to-disk working today
and nothing has crashed yet.
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