Installing Ubuntu 8.10 on Toshiba L305-S5915
Last updated: 14-June-2009
General Hardware Specifications of L305-S5915:
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Hardware
Components
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Status
under Linux
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Notes
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| Celeron 575, 2.0 GHz, 1MB L2, 667
MHz FSB on Mobile Intel GL40 Express Chipset |
Works |
No special procedure
required during
installation. |
| 15.4" Widescreen WXGA (1280x800) |
Works |
No special procedure
required during
installation. |
| Mobile Intel 4 Series Express
Graphics Chipset |
Works |
No special procedure
required during
installation. |
| 2.00 GB, PC6400, DDR2 (X2)
- 4.0 GB Total |
Works |
No special procedure
required during
installation |
| Western Digital 160 GB SATA HDD |
Works |
No special procedure
required during
installation |
| Integrated Network Card - Realtek
RTL8102E, PCI-E |
Works |
No special procedure
required during
installation |
| Internal 56k Modem |
Never Tested |
I don't use it. |
| Matshita UJ880 AS, CD-RW/DVD±RW Drive |
Works |
No special procedure
required during installation |
| Atheros Internal Wireless Network
Adapter - AR5007EG |
Works |
Default installed Atheros
hardware drivers did not work initially and needed to be disabled.
Used Windows AR5007EG drivers and ndiswrapper. |
| 4000mAh (6 cell) Lithium-Ion Battery |
Works |
No special procedure
required during
installation |
| Realtek USB 2.0, 4 in
1 Card Reader |
Works |
No special procedure
required during
installation |
| Realtek High Definition
Audio |
Works |
No special procedure required during installation.
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This laptop is currently operating under Kernel version -2.6.27-12-generic
Basic Installation:
- Obtained ISO image from Ubuntu web site and installed from
DVD.
- Post-Install modifications/tweaks
- The install was quick and worked better than I ever
expected.
Setting up additional features :
- Suspend, hibernate, battery indicator, touchpad all work
with no special procedure.
- Atheros wireless adapter didn't work with default Ubuntu drivers. Works fine with ndiswraper and Windows drivers.
Unresolved issues
- CPU fan doesn't turn on until core temp reaches 75C and then doesn't slow
down until rebooted. Appears to be related to the InsydeH20 BIOS and acpi
modules not being able to control the CPU fan properly. Still searching
for a fix.
Configuration Files
More Specific Information:
- Aventail VPN client took some time to get working.
Not the fault of the laptop or Ubuntu. The Aventail
client was linking to an older version of OpenSSL. Update of OpenSSL
fixed the problem.
Contact Information (Optional)
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