Toshiba Satellite A205

tengo este modelo Toshiba Satellite A205 sp-5820, le instalé ubuntu hardy 8.04 lts, le instale el wirelles por aparte y todo genial, solo no me funciona el microfono, todos los demas recursos al 100% que podria ser? cómo arreglarlo? no puedo usar skype para llamadas, por que me indica “problema con la reproduccion de audio”

saludos, javier torres

so far so good.
I've installed Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04 on my fiance's toshiba satellite a 205. Main issue is performance of firefox with videos (i.e.youtube), and sound sounds well since she is not interested in multimedia production just playing her favorites songs.

I had a pretty successful out of the box installation with the latest Ubuntu Studio DVD, although I used ndiswrapper to install the drivers for the wireless card and iwspy still is not working. My main concern is that the microphone is not working at all. Sound works great, I can do my usual low-level music production with it, but no microphone.

toshiba a205-sp5820

Working beautifull with Ubuntu 8.04
Seems the problem with the sounds has been fixed completly.
The graphics adapter also as soon as you check the box for restricted drivers is able to pull up the cube without effort.
I have tested several SD cards diferent sizes and brands and works excelent.
USB also responds without delay for any device i´ve connected (printers not tested)
The only problem remains with the wireless connection, is not working out of the box when completing the ubuntu installation or after performing the update.
But i´ll try this ipw3945 module, and i´ll let you now what happens.

Thanks the review.

Kubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) on A205-S5831

Kubuntu Hardy installed for me without many problems.

I did have to set ALSA as my sound system and also in Amarok (PulseAudio doesn't work with the A205).

I didn't have to fiddle with screen settings — they worked straight away.

I did have to install the MadWifi drivers for the Atheros integrated wireless card:

Although there is a “stable” release, I downloaded the more current “snapshot” driver (which worked better for me) and installed it by hand. It is available from:

http://snapshots.madwifi.org/

and is called:
madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-current.tar.gz (at least at the time of this writing).

I saved and unzipped/decompressed it into a folder.

The full instructions for installation are at :

http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/FirstTimeHowTo

Of all the steps listed, however, I only had to perform:

sudo apt-get install build-essential
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)

ifconfig ath0 down
ifconfig wifi0 down

cd <directory_where_driver_unzipped>

cd scripts
./madwifi-unload
./find-madwifi-modules.sh $(uname -r)
cd ..

make
make install
modprobe ath_pci

Now the driver was installed.

An additional command is required for the MadWifi driver to obtain a DHCP IP address from the AccessPoint/Router, however:

sudo dhclient ath0

To automate this connection, I wrote a one-line script (as the root user) that included this line, and saved it as “DHCP_script.bash” and saved it in my Madwifi folder.

Then, in the KDE “Wireless Network” menu module (which is kcmwifi) I set the Access Point name and WEP (or WPA) key as a configuration file and made sure to tick the “load the configuration on startup” option.

I also ticked the “Execute script on connect” option and entered the location of the “DHCP_script.bash” script.

Now my wireless connected automatically ever time without further intervention.

USB worked without intervention.

Kubuntu 8.04 Hardy

Recently installed Kubuntu 8.04 Hardy with KDE4 and there were really only two things I needed to get things up and running on my A205-S5841.

Kernel Version: 2.6.24-16

In order to get the wireless up I had to install a patched version of the madwifi modules (the default tree doesn't support the card, Atheros AR2425) found at
http://snapshots.madwifi.org/special/madwifi-nr-r3366+ar5007.tar.gz (prepatched release source)
reference:
http://madwifi.org/ticket/1679

Be sure that the packages build-essential and kernel-headers are installed.
$ tar -xzvf madwifi-nr-r3366+ar5007.tar.gz
$ cd madwifi-nr-r3366+ar5007
$ make
$ sudo make install

edit the file /etc/modules and add:
ath_pci

reboot or modprobe, etc.

Second was the sound. ALSA was installed, version 1.0.16 and sound worked fine except for when the system came up from suspend/hibernate. To fix that…

edit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base
add the line: options snd-hda-intel model=toshiba

Intel graphics worked great right out of the box.

A205-s5804

Spent hours trying to install the Realtek 'USB' wireless for this model.

Here is a link to build a modified driver, that got me up and running

http://datanorth.net/~cuervo/rtl8187b/

Sound works on mine, no drivers needed

The sound works decent on mine running ubuntu and kubuntu immediatly after installation. I did notice some distortion, and I'm hoping the drivers for download will help with that.

My real concern with the satellite is getting the 965 intel to work well

Sound solved

I solved the sound problem by merely installing the latest alsa-drivers. By the time of this note the release is 1.0.15rc2. Applying patches to the stable release did not work for me.

Toshiba Satellite A205-S4607.
Mandriva 2007.1 - kernel 2.6.21.5-1mdvsmp

I have a Toshiba Satellite A205-S4607.

The sound is working with the help of these sites:
1.http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/template.php?company=Intel&card=ICH+southbridge+HD-audio+and+modem.&chip=ICH6%2C+ICH6M%2C+ICH7%2C+ESB2&module=hda-intel
Instructions to follow for update procedure.

2.http://www.alsa-project.org/
Locstion to download the latest ALSA modules, libs, utils

3.https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=3104
Username:guest Password:guest.
Updates and patches for drivers