{"id":2629,"date":"2013-01-07T08:59:13","date_gmt":"2013-01-07T13:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=2629"},"modified":"2013-01-07T08:59:26","modified_gmt":"2013-01-07T13:59:26","slug":"ubuntu-updated-on-the-thinkpad-edge-11-magorian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2013\/01\/07\/ubuntu-updated-on-the-thinkpad-edge-11-magorian","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu updated on the ThinkPad Edge 11&#8243; (magorian)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Breakfast of champions! Soft boiled egg done correctly w\/o cup\/holder by byte, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/byte\/8352233572\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8503\/8352233572_5b438e828a_n.jpg?resize=320%2C320\" alt=\"Breakfast of champions! Soft boiled egg done correctly w\/o cup\/holder\" width=\"320\" height=\"320\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;ve been using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubuntu.com\/\">Ubuntu<\/a> on my Thinkpad Edge 11&#8243; (which has the machine name: <tt>magorian<\/tt>) for quite some time now (from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2011\/04\/20\/first-hour-with-ubuntu-10-10-on-a-laptop\">10.10<\/a>). Today I did an update from 12.04 to 12.04.1 and found my wifi stopped working. Turning the card on\/off using the Fn+F9 key seemed to be the fix. Minor niggle.<\/p>\n<p>Some resources: <a href=\"http:\/\/askubuntu.com\/questions\/9542\/ubuntu-on-thinkpad-edge-11-13-14-15\">Ubuntu on Thinkpad Edge 11\/13\/14\/15<\/a> is a great place to see common problems &amp; fixes. The ThinkWiki also has a page for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkwiki.org\/wiki\/Category%3aEdge_11%22\">Edge 11&#8243;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The update to 12.10 is currently going on and is expected to take 1.7GB of downloads.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m thinking about upgrading the RAM from 2GB -&gt; 4GB (I&#8217;m seeing prices that are really cheap for this kind of RAM &#8211; less than RM100 ~USD33). I have to admit that the machine definitely feels a lot snappier than my aging MacBook Pro (<tt>lovegood<\/tt>).\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Ubuntu%20updated%20on%20the%20ThinkPad%20Edge%2011%22%20%28magorian%29&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2013%2F01%2F07%2Fubuntu-updated-on-the-thinkpad-edge-11-magorian&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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Today I did an update from 12.04 to 12.04.1 and found my wifi stopped working. Turning the card on\/off using the Fn+F9 key seemed to be the fix. Minor niggle. Some resources: Ubuntu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Ubuntu%20updated%20on%20the%20ThinkPad%20Edge%2011%22%20%28magorian%29&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2013%2F01%2F07%2Fubuntu-updated-on-the-thinkpad-edge-11-magorian&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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