Ubuntu Installation On Gateway T1616

For convenience,I installed i386 edition instead of 64bit.Which happened 1 mouth ago.But for Gateway T1616, there were two main problem after the basic installation: 1

Wireless doesn't work

Here's the result of lspci for wireless :

08:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 01)

The way to make it work should be:

1 Install ndiswrapper :

sudo apt-get install ndiswrapper

2 Download the driver of wireless card for Windows

for Gateway,we need the driver rtl8187b Downloaded. And use ndiswrapper to install the driver: ndiswrapper -i xxx.inf Load ndiswrapper by sudo modprobe ndiswrapper

VERY IMPORTANT: If you have a Vista on the laptop,the wireless will simply NOT work,I don't know why,but after my OpenSUSE accidentally disabled the Vista,which came with Gateway T1616,the wireless magically started to work! Update: This method works not very well, if this is true for you, you may want to try the Native Driver for RTL8187B 2

Sound Card Doesn't work

The solution turned out to be very simple:install the package alsa-tools

sudo apt-get install alsa-tools

Then make sure that every thing displayed in alsamixer is NOT muted.

alsamixer

Use key left and right to switch between different column,us key m to voice the muted ones\ After these two things, Gateway T1616 basicly functioned completely.Except that the mic and web camera is still not working. I'll working on it~~