Ubuntu 7.10 on Dell Latitude D505

Specifications:

CPU: Pentium M 1.7 GHz

RAM: 1 gb

Graphics card: Intel 82852/855GM

Lan adapter: Intel 82801DB PRO/100 VE

Wireless: Broadcom BCM4306

Nearly everything works out of the box. You have to use ndiswrapper for the WLAN and change the Video driver (if you close the lid with the default one it will freeze and the only way is to do a hard reboot)

• WLAN:

  This is one of the infamous Broadcom cards. First, get the windows drivers from here: http://www.fjall.org/d505/wlan/. Preferrably use wget and save them to /root
  
  Install ndiswrapper
  apt-get install ndiswrapper-common

  apt-get install ndiswrapper-utils-1.9 (if the verison number has changed, look it up with apt-cache search)
  
  

  cd /root

  (make sure to unload the module ubuntu tries to use, will probably give you an error)

  modprobe -r bcmwl5

  ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf

  ndiswrapper -m

  modprobe ndiswrapper

  
  Restart the computer, now you should have WLAN working (yay)
  
  

• Video driver (closing lid and suspend to RAM)

  Change the video driver from “intel” to “i810” in xorg.conf (/etc/X11/xorg.conf) and restart X (Ctrl+Alt+Backspace)
  
  

  Unfortunly the xserver needs some help now to discover the existence of the resolution, install 915resolution. (apt-get install 915resolution)
  
  

• Contact Information
  benedikt.k at gmail.com