May 26, 2007. Yesterday, I started playing with my newest laptop—the Dell Latitude 131L. I ordered before Dell announced the Ubuntu installation. The main partition holds Windows XP. This article documents what I did to make the system work with Ubuntu. I also am using this article to archive what I have to do to get an original installation of Ubuntu to do what I want it to.

The Dell Latitude 131L in question runs the AMD Turon 64x2 processor. I used the Fiesty Fawn 64-bit installation CD as the baseline.

Fixes

Wireless

The Ubuntu wireless driver used by default is the bcm_43XX, which does not work. The chipset is for the Dell Broadcom 1390 WLAN. I found the fix for enabling Broadcom 1390 WLAN on the Ubuntu Forums, and archived a copy here for ease of reference.

Packages

aptitude update
aptitude install subversion zsh 
aptitude install tetex-extra tetex-nonfree tetex-base tetex-doc-nonfree tetex-bin tetex-doc

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