I have bought — actually, it was kind of a present — my first laptop: a LG R405. Because I am not that geeky, I didn't even bother to checkout what the famous Windows Vista looks like and promptly installed Ubuntu on my machine, removing the other OS.
Installation went smoothly. What didn't work out of the box?
- wireless not supported by the default drivers: I followed a tutorial from the forums called HOWTO: Atheros AR5007EG on Feisty Fawn (with ndiswrapper) and it turned out OK. The problem was: how do I know my laptop has a chipset named AR5007EG (
lspcireports an AR5006EG!)? - bluetooth support is poor and falky: although a bluetooth icon appeared in my desktop I could not send files to my laptop (I had to google for an answer and understand I had to install
bluetooth-gnome). I wanted bluetooth to synchronize the contacts on my Nokia 6680 with my laptop, I still have no idea how to configure the criptickitchensink:(
About the Bluetooth Preferences. I do not understand what are the Services; shouldn't all the services be turned on? There is a section called Input Devices which I could crash just by connecting to a device. What is this section for? On the General pane, what is a class of device, what the hell is that option for? On the first pane, how do I bond from the laptop to a device? Why is it only from the device to my laptop? Why do I need to specify the class of device, does anyone care about this?
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