Installing Kubuntu 7.04 on Dell Inspiron 9300

[Andy Harrison]

On 5/23/07, Yanko Angelov <yanchini at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello all!
>
> I am interested to know if somebody has some specific experience in
> installing Kubuntu 7.04 on Dell Inspiron 9300, common problems, WiFi, etc as
> well as the overall performance of Insiron 9300 under Kubuntu. I'm a newby,
> so any info will be appreciated. thanx a lot in advance!

I have no trouble with my 9300 at all.  Everything works easily by
default.  I just did a fresh nstall of 7.04 last month recently and
it's dead simple.

I did have to do a little extra to get my wireless card working, but
it's probably more to do with how my wap is configured.  I just run
this little script first and I'm good to go.


#!/bin/sh

iwconfig eth1 essid "mySSID"            &&
iwconfig eth1 mode Managed                  &&
iwconfig eth1 ap any                        &&
iwconfig eth1 key restricted 1 123456789A   &&
dhclient eth1

Other than that, no trouble at all.  Easily got everything working,
from beryl/aixgl, to vlan tagging on my network at the office.

-- 
Andy Harrison