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Table of Contents

1.Introduction

2.Summary

3.Computer details

1.Introduction

I purchased a Lenovo F31A laptop days ago, it is a great laptop except the pre-installed OS VISTA, I really do not like it. As I have some experence to use ubuntu on the PC, so I decide to install the Ubuntu 7.10 to the laptop. And the installation is very easy,just download the iso file from ubutnu homepage and burn it to a CD-ROM, then use this CD to boot laptop, follow the normal way to install ubuntu. It can easily automaitcally detect almost all the hardware and install the driver to them, except two hardware, the wireless card driver and the sound driver.

WIRELESS

1.Download a software named bcm43xx-fwcutter_20060108-6build1_i386.deb and install it.Here http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43 you will find more details about b43.
2.Click the icon on the right above panel---Restricted Drivers, and enable the firmware for broadcom 43xx chipset family, then it will pop-up a window ask you to slect the firmware to download, pls choose the second one which is http://xeve.de/down/wl_apsta.o ,after finishing the download,ubuntu will automatically install the firmware.

SOUND

I have tested all the alsa driver version, and some patches, which still have no effect to drive my sound card. Finally I found this article http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=3768914&postcount=60 which help me to solve my sound card issue, so now I can listen music and watch movies under my new laptop now.

2.Summary

3.Computer Details

Pls see the details attached pdf file.

Download Install Ubuntu 7.10 on My Lenovo F31A Howto