Now the final piece in the puzzle – installing the wireless driver. In a terminal:
wget http://www.viaarena.com/Driver/VT6656_Linux_src_v1.19_12_x86.zip
This will download the driver. Now you need to unzip it:
unzip
VT6656_Linux_src_v1.19_12_x86.zip
Now change into the newly created directory:
cd VT6656_Linux_src_v1.19_12_x86
The driver needs to be compiled next. You may need to install gcc (it is in the build-essential package) for this:
sudo apt-get install build-essential
sudo make install
The final step is to load the driver/module:
sudo modprobe vntwusb
After a few seconds, you should be able to connect to your wireless networks.
Hi,
I spent the last 2 days trying to the wireless to work on Ubuntu. I tried everything but nothing could detect the device.
How did you find out what the device was called into order to find the drivers?
Also how did you know i8042.nomux would fix the touchoad?
I want to know this for future troubleshooting
Cheers.
Hi Matthew
The wireless device was mentioned on the kogan blog, along with the link to the drivers. Also, if you take the back off the agora, the model number is printed on the adapter.
The touchpad was another kettle of fish though. It took three days of trawling the net, trying different operating systems, asking for conf info from people who had the kogan with gOS still installed, etc. In the end I was getting desperate, and trying everything I found. I saw the i8042.nomux suggestion in an ubuntu bug report, and gave it a try. I was one happy boy when I rebooted and touched the pad!
Cheers
kayno
Ah excellent.
Kogan should really of posted this information in the first place.
What I also found was the in-built web cam didn’t work on Ubuntu. You should post a topic on how to get that working.
sudo apt-get install cheese
Cheese seems to come packaged with extra web cam drivers as well as some cool web cam effects.
Thanks for the info,
-Matthew
Thanks for the info on cheese – I am trying it out now.
Cheese comes with Ubuntu 9.04 – at least it did with the Notebook Remix
I did not need to install extra drivers for the webcam, the kernel handled it nicely.
excellent information, tried everything, then came here and did this and instant success.Much appreciated Kano
Cheers
Rob
[...] about windows, and install Ubuntu Netbook Remix. I have documented installing and setting up the wireless adapter and touchpad at http://agoranetbook.kayno.net/, as well as adding common [...]
hmm…
‘wget: unable to resolve host address ‘www.viaarena.com’”
something i’m doing/not doing?
…it does say:
‘Usage: wget [OPTION]…..[URL]‘
when it fails.
Does it need a command between ‘wget’ and the URL?
Apologies for being a Linux Numpty, but I am willing to give this a go!
…and further apologies for not checking the cable was plugged in! Doh!
Works as advertised
Thanks
Anyone can make that mistake Chris! Thanks for the feedback, and enjoy Ubuntu!
Thanks from me too. This os is much better than gOS. One thing I haven’t been able to work out which you may be able to assist with – I have a 3 wireless USB 3g modem, which doesn’t appear in the list of available networks. If you can help me with this last thing I’ll be forever grateful. Cheers!
[...] So it’s safe to assume that people are going to want to use mobile internet devices with the agora – be it a 3G USB dongle or mobile phone – to connect to the internet. So safe to assume, that Matt has already asked how this can be achieved. [...]
VT6656_linux_src_v1.20.03_x86 is the driver to use now.
The old one does not build on karmic
another note, I had to do a sudo apt-get update to get the build-essential to install
Mine doesnt work…. what lame ness…. umm
~/VT6656_Linux_src_v1.19_12_x86$ sudo modprobe vntwusb
WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper, it will be ignored in a future release.
FATAL: Module vntwusb not found.
lame…. more errors before but like yeah…