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We recently got a [[w:Lenovo s10|Lenovo Ideapad S10-3]] and of course nuked the default Windows 7 OS off it straight away to be replaced with Ubuntu ;-)
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I recently got a [[w:Lenovo s10|Lenovo Ideapad S10-3]] and of course nuked the default Windows 7 OS off it straight away to be replaced with Ubuntu ;-)
  
 
First I booted in on an Ubuntu 11.04 USB stick to test functionality and everything worked perfectly out of the box, except that it would not resume after standby. Also I later discovered that the wifi hardware switch causes the wifi to stop working, and the only way to get it working again is not open up the whole unit and take out the CMOS backup battery to restore the unit to factory defaults.
 
First I booted in on an Ubuntu 11.04 USB stick to test functionality and everything worked perfectly out of the box, except that it would not resume after standby. Also I later discovered that the wifi hardware switch causes the wifi to stop working, and the only way to get it working again is not open up the whole unit and take out the CMOS backup battery to restore the unit to factory defaults.

Revision as of 05:03, 6 June 2011

I recently got a Lenovo Ideapad S10-3 and of course nuked the default Windows 7 OS off it straight away to be replaced with Ubuntu ;-)

First I booted in on an Ubuntu 11.04 USB stick to test functionality and everything worked perfectly out of the box, except that it would not resume after standby. Also I later discovered that the wifi hardware switch causes the wifi to stop working, and the only way to get it working again is not open up the whole unit and take out the CMOS backup battery to restore the unit to factory defaults.

These problems are no where near as major as having to use Windows so I proceeded with a full installation! I nuked all the partitions to use the entire disk for Ubuntu. One thing to note regarding partition sizes is that for hibernate to work correctly there needs to be about twice the amount of physical RAM available in the swap partition. By default it only reserved 2GB, but my netbook has 2GB of RAM, so I used a custom configuration with 5GB for the swap partition.

Resume problem

To try and fix the resume problem I first installed the most recent version of s2ram, but note that before running ./configure, you'll need to apt-get install pcutils-dev libx86dev. This did not fix the problem though, so I instead had to do the following to change the suspend action to hibernate. See also s2ram at OpenSUSE for some good information on the s2ram utility.

Wifi switch problem

After the wifi hardware switch on the side has been used to disable the wifi, the wifi will no longer be able to be activated after the next reboot. The onlt way to fix this is to restore the unit to factory settings. This sounds quite straight forward, but is unfortunately quite tricky. A good explanation can be found in this LaunchPad post. The procedure worked for me and I took some photos along the way which may be of some extra help.

LenovoRepair1.jpg   LenovoRepair2.jpg   LenovoRepair3.jpg
LenovoRepair4.jpg   LenovoRepair5.jpg   LenovoRepair6.jpg

The last photo shows some rolled up paper jammed into the space in the wifi switch so that it can't be moved into the off position again.

See also