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• Contact: ActiuInformatica

• Brand: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
• Model: F5V-AP097C (P/N)

• Product website: http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=5&l2=24&l3=477&l4=0&model=1703&modelmenu=1

Pending issues

Known hardware

sudo lshw -short

H/W path            Device      Class       Description
=======================================================
                                system      F5V
/0                              bus         F5V
/0/0                            memory      64KiB BIOS
/0/4                            processor   Intel(R) Core(TM) Duo CPU      T2250  @ 1.73GHz
/0/4/5                          memory      64KiB L1 cache
/0/4/6                          memory      2MiB L2 cache
/0/4/0.1                        processor   Logical CPU
/0/4/0.2                        processor   Logical CPU
/0/1b                           memory      1GiB System Memory
/0/1b/0                         memory      512MiB DIMM SDRAM Synchronous
/0/1b/1                         memory      512MiB DIMM SDRAM Synchronous
/0/100                          bridge      671MX
/0/100/1                        bridge      PCI-to-PCI bridge
/0/100/1/0                      display     Mobility Radeon X2300
/0/100/2                        bridge      SiS968 [MuTIOL Media IO]
/0/100/2.5          scsi0       storage     5513 [IDE]
/0/100/2.5/0.0.0    /dev/cdrom  disk        DVD-RAM UJ-860S
/0/100/3                        bus         USB 1.1 Controller
/0/100/3.1                      bus         USB 1.1 Controller
/0/100/3.3                      bus         USB 2.0 Controller
/0/100/5            scsi2       storage     SATA Controller / IDE mode
/0/100/5/0.0.0      /dev/sda    disk        80GB Hitachi HTS54168
/0/100/5/0.0.0/1    /dev/sda1   volume      71GiB EXT3 volume
/0/100/5/0.0.0/2    /dev/sda2   volume      2957MiB Extended partition
/0/100/5/0.0.0/2/5  /dev/sda5   volume      2957MiB Linux swap / Solaris partition
/0/100/6                        bridge      PCI-to-PCI bridge
/0/100/6/0                      network     AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter
/0/100/7                        bridge      PCI-to-PCI bridge
/0/100/d            eth0        network     RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+
/0/100/f                        multimedia  Azalia Audio Controller
/0/1                scsi4       storage     
/0/1/0.0.0          /dev/sdb    disk        xD/SDMMC/MS/Pro
/0/1/0.0.0/0        /dev/sdb    disk        

sudo lspci

00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 671MX
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] PCI-to-PCI bridge
00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS968 [MuTIOL Media IO] (rev 01)
00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev 01)
00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 Controller
00:05.0 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SATA Controller / IDE mode (rev 03)
00:06.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] PCI-to-PCI bridge
00:07.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] PCI-to-PCI bridge
00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
00:0f.0 Audio device: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Azalia Audio Controller
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Mobility Radeon X2300
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)

sudo lsusb (without any external device)

Bus 003 Device 004: ID 0bda:0116 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. 
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 174f:6a31  
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000  
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000  
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 046d:c019 Logitech, Inc. 
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000  

Achievements - results

(*) Notes and recipes

Graphics acceleration/3D

• Ubuntu GNU/Linux 8.04 (Hardy Heron) automatically finds and downloads an ATI restricted driver. You only need to open the restricted hardware drivers tool, activate it and reboot.

Compiz desktop effects

• Works, but system becomes unstable.

Correct audio volume

• Microphone is so low.

Wireless NIC

• Ubuntu 8.04: Automatically offered driver doesn't run well.
• With Synaptic, install the package "build-essential"

• Check if Ubuntu has already detected and enabled the Atheros drivers that come with repositories, with the tool for restricted hardware drivers (jockey). Disable all elements related with Atheros.

• Download the last MadWifi package from http://snapshots.madwifi-project.org/madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6/

• With a Terminal window (console), move (cd) to the directory where have downloaded the new MadWifi package

• Extract the package (example): sudo tar -xzvf madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-r4003-20090416.tar.gz

• Move to the new directory (example): cd madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-r4003-20090416/

• Compile: sudo make

• Install the new specific driver: sudo make install

• With a Terminal window (console) edit the "/etc/modules" file with the command: sudo gedit /etc/modules

• Add the following lines at the end if doesn't exist:

ath_hal
wlan
ath_pci

• Restart the computer.
• Ubuntu 9.10: Just run this on a terminal:

sudo su
modprobe ath5k
echo "ath5k" >>/etc/modules
exit

See also

CategoryLaptop