Since I bought my beloved Eee PC 1101HA (wonderful screen and battery life), I’ve been using Ubuntu 9.04, yesterday I’ve decided to upgrade to Karmic Koala.
When I’ve installed 9.04, I had problem with the network (wifi and ethernet drivers), and the display drivers. That was all, the rest was great.
When I did the upgrade, the display once more was not working properly but the worst was the speed connection, awful.
Then I’ve decided to do a fresh clean installation:
- Download Karmic Koala
- Make a pen drive bootable with the app in system->administration->Usb Startup Disk Creator
- Boot you Eeepc form the pendrive (you can find this in the bios F2->Boot)
- Install Karmic Koala
- After this almost everything was working fine but the display and still the internet connection
Problems and how I fixed them:
Display resolution:
I found many solutions the easier was this one:
In command shell:
wget http://gma500re.altervista.org/scripts/poulsbo_ppa.sh && sh ./poulsbo_ppa.sh
dpkg-reconfigure psb-kernel-source
Restart and works 😉
Internet connection Speed:
There’s some short of bug that for some weird reason makes your browsing experience really slow. As far as I know (and how I did to solve it) it’s caused by ipv6.
If you use firefox you can use this solution to disable ipv6 only in firefox of course.
Open a firefox browser window and type this in the address bar:
about:config
In the filter bar put:
network.dns.disableIPv6
You will disable the IPv6 DNS if you set the value to true. Once you have done that close Firefox and then reopen a browser a window. Your internet should be fast again!
But I use Chomium!! and skype….then we need to disable the module ipv6 to load on start (boot).
Open a terminal:
gksudo gedit /etc/default/grub
Look for this line and add:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="ipv6.disable=1 quiet splash"
Save and close your file then run:
sudo update-grub
That’s all until now…seems everything to work pretty good, just I don’t like from karmic the new Ubuntu Software Center, I liked more the old one…