OK, so I jumped the gun and upgraded from Kubuntu 9.04 to 9.10.<br><br>My wireless did not work. Bad timing, I should have waited till I do the Monday presentation ...<br>
<br>The new laptop has an an Intel 5100 and I had some trouble with it on 9.04, which I overcame by downloading the code from Intel's Linux Wireless web site, compiling it, and then downloading the new firmware and copying it /lib/firmware.<br>
<br>The details for 9.04 are here:<br><a href="http://baheyeldin.com/technology/linux/toshiba-satellite-a300-07f-kubuntu-jaunty-904.html">http://baheyeldin.com/technology/linux/toshiba-satellite-a300-07f-kubuntu-jaunty-904.html</a><br>
<br>But, after fiddling with it for some time, I found that the new drivers from<br>Intel, specifically this one:<br><br><a href="http://linuxwireless.org/download/compat-wireless-2.6/compat-wireless-2009-10-28.tar.bz2">http://linuxwireless.org/download/compat-wireless-2.6/compat-wireless-2009-10-28.tar.bz2</a><br>
<br>Work well. I had an issue after putting the laptop to Suspend, but will<br>dig deeper on this one later.<br><br>I also found that wicd is a much better network manager than either <br>KDE's default plasmoid or Gnome's network manager. It also makes<br>
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