Chinese X201e Networking Drivers

[andy-gaitech]

After receiving our first X201e notebook from a supplier in China last week, we discovered that neither the wired or wireless networking hardware was supported in 12.04. Working drivers listed below:

Wireless:

When we received the notebook we discovered it uses a different wireless network card than that listed on the ubuntu website (the guys at Yujin received the notebook with the AR9485, which is supported in 12.04).

Our model uses the BCM 4365 for wireless instead, and a working driver for this can be found below:

http://jas.gemnetworks.com/debian/pool/main/w/wireless-bcm43142/wireless-bcm43142-dkms_6.20.55.19-1_amd64.deb

Wired:

Our notebook uses the AR8162 for Ethernet, as listed on the ubuntu website and received by Yujin. This also appears not to be supported by default in 12.04, so all versions of the X201e would need a driver for this hardware. The working one I found can be found at the link below:

http://linuxwireless.org/download/compat-wireless-2.6/compat-wireless-2012-02-28-p.tar.bz2

These are the only combinations of drivers that I have found so far that will play nicely with each other. Would be great if we could get them included in the ISO, but not sure if they will conflict with drivers for hardware anyone else is using?

[LucidOne]

I added linux-backports-modules-cw-* so this should be fixed for RC3 or later

[andy-gaitech]

That backports package doesn't appear to contain anything useful for either of our devices, both remain unclaimed after a fresh install of ISO RC4.

[andy-gaitech]

Output of lshw -c network included below. The proprietary drivers for our Broadcom wifi card are available in a standard ubuntu 12.04 install but not in the Turtlebot ISO. Have they been removed?

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo lshw -C network
*-network UNCLAIMED
description: Network controller
product: Broadcom Corporation
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
version: 01
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: memory:f7d00000-f7d07fff
*-network UNCLAIMED
description: Ethernet controller
product: AR8162 Fast Ethernet
vendor: Atheros Communications Inc.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
version: 10
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm pciexpress msi msix bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: memory:f7c00000-f7c3ffff ioport:e000(size=128)

[andy-gaitech]

The deb in question is: bcmwl-kernel-source_6.20.155.1+bdcom-0ubuntu0.0.1_amd64.deb