{"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":"https:\/\/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 data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" 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\" \/><\/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=\"https:\/\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been using Ubuntu on my Thinkpad Edge 11&#8243; (which has the machine name: magorian) for quite some time now (from 10.10). 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","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1406],"tags":[718,4,1484,1483,1261,15,1114,1481,1482],"class_list":["post-2629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oss","tag-lenovo","tag-linux","tag-lovegood","tag-magorian","tag-thinkpad-edge-11","tag-ubuntu","tag-ubuntu-10-04-lts","tag-ubuntu-12-04-lts","tag-ubuntu-12-10"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-Gp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}