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Since I bought my beloved Eee PC 1101HA (wonderful screen and battery life), I’ve been using Ubuntu 9.04, yesterday I’ve decided to upgrade to Karmic Koala.

When I’ve installed 9.04, I had problem with the network (wifi and ethernet drivers), and the display drivers. That was all, the rest was great.

When I did the upgrade, the display once more was not working properly but the worst was the speed connection, awful.

Then I’ve decided to do a fresh clean installation:

1. Download Karmic Koala
2. Make a pen drive bootable with the app in system->administration->Usb Startup Disk Creator
3. Boot you Eeepc form the pendrive (you can find this in the bios F2->Boot)
4. Install Karmic Koala
5. After this almost everything was working fine but the display and still the internet connection

Problems and how I fixed them:

Display resolution:

I found many solutions the easier was this one:
In command shell:

wget http://gma500re.altervista.org/scripts/poulsbo_ppa.sh && sh ./poulsbo_ppa.sh
dpkg-reconfigure psb-kernel-source

Restart and works ;)

Internet connection Speed:

There’s some short of bug that for some weird reason makes your browsing experience really slow. As far as I know (and how I did to solve it) it’s caused by ipv6.

If you use firefox you can use this solution to disable ipv6 only in firefox of course.

Open a firefox browser window and type this in the address bar:

about:config

In the filter bar put:

network.dns.disableIPv6

You will disable the IPv6 DNS if you set the value to true. Once you have done that close Firefox and then reopen a browser a window. Your internet should be fast again!

But I use Chomium!! and skype….then we need to disable the module ipv6 to load on start (boot).

Open a terminal:

gksudo gedit /etc/default/grub

Look for this line and add:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="ipv6.disable=1 quiet splash"

Save and close your file then run:

sudo update-grub

That’s all until now…seems everything to work pretty good, just I don’t like from karmic the new Ubuntu Software Center, I liked more the old one…

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