Ubuntu 9.04 installed on my laptop

Just some notes in respect of installing Ubuntu 9.04 on the Laptop Fujitsu Amilo Pro. In particular getting the wireless card to work.

The problem is that the wireless button doesn’t do anything so whilst the hardware is detected it cannot be brought up.

The solution is in two parts.

1. Get the OS to load the fsam7400 driver and pass a parameter radio=1

sudo echo fsam7400 >> /etc/modules
sudo echo options fsam7400 radio=1 >> /etc/modprobe.d/options

2. To survive hibernate/resume

modprobe -r ipw2200
modprobe -r fsam7400

to /etc/acpi/sleep.sh and /etc/acpi/hibernate.sh and

modprobe fsam7400 radio=1
modprobe ipw2200 led=1

to /etc/acpi/resume.sh

A big thanks to cartes and ph1721 for their postings on http://ubuntuforums.org

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