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Hardware Specific / Toshiba NB505 running 1.081 - flawless (so far)

« on: June 08, 2013, 10:35:37 AM »

Install was smooth ... no problems to report thus far.

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Hardware Specific / Ubermix 1.081 on Dell Latitude 2100 (BCM 4312 LPPHY)

« on: June 07, 2013, 04:28:14 PM »

Aloha Kakou

I installed ubermix-key1.081.img from a flash drive onto a Dell Latitude 2100 and initially had some issues getting the correct driver installed for the captioned wireless card (14e4:4315)

If you run into issues with the Broadcom hardware, here's the solution

-Open a terminal (ctrl+alt+t)
-Type sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-lpphy-installer
-Type sudo modprobe -r b43
-Type sudo modprobe b43

Don't forget to enable the hardware switch (FN+F6) in my case. No reboot necessary. Not sure if you need to "sudo apt-get purge bcmwl-kernel-source" or similar, but it's working for now.

The issue I am having is getting the computer to automatically connect to a hidden network here on campus. For now I need to manually "connect to a hidden wireless network." Is there a way to do this, for example, using gnome-session-properties?

I hope to deploy 2 dozen of these machines to our summer school classes mainly for web-based programs, and for feedback. My goal is to reimage the remaining 20 for use with GAFE next year.

With ubermix, the deployment image is less than 4GB, whereas the WindowsXP image was almost 15GB

Mahalo

Bob Martin
Naalehu, HI