Bought brand new Macbook Air and then installed Ubuntu 14.04 64-bit successfully but major hardwares are not compatible such as WiFi card and mouse pad is not working smoothly like in OSX it does. How to fix the WiFi cause i have no other network interface on this MacBook Air.
Optiona: Here is how i installed:
Step 1: on Mac OSX 10.9.2 Open disk utility i resize 80GB for mac and 40GB as unallocated
Step 2: optional: refind-bin-0.8.0.zip, basically its a GUI bootable screen
if i do not install it there is no big deal cause Ubuntu has itself TUI GRUB menu. was confused so installed it anyway.
$ ls
COPYING.txt LICENSE.txt README.txt docs install.sh mkrlconf.sh refind
CREDITS.txt NEWS.txt banners fonts keys mvrefind.sh
$ ./install.sh
Not running as root; attempting to elevate privileges via sudo....
Password:
Installing rEFInd on OS X....
Installing rEFInd to the partition mounted at //
Copied rEFInd binary files
Copying sample configuration file as refind.conf; edit this file to configure
rEFInd.
WARNING: If you have an Advanced Format disk, *DO NOT* attempt to check the
bless status with 'bless --info', since this is known to cause disk corruption
on some systems!!
Installation has completed successfully.
Step 3: Download Ubuntu 14.04 64-bit ISO for bootable USB stick
$ hdiutil convert -format UDRW -o ubuntu-14.04-desktop-amd64.img ubuntu-14.04-desktop-amd64.iso
Reading Driver Descriptor Map (DDM : 0)…
Reading Ubuntu 14.04 LTS amd64 (Apple_ISO : 1)…
Reading Apple (Apple_partition_map : 2)…
Reading Ubuntu 14.04 LTS amd64 (Apple_ISO : 3)…
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Reading EFI (Apple_HFS : 4)…
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Reading Ubuntu 14.04 LTS amd64 (Apple_ISO : 5)…
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Elapsed Time: 8.123s
Speed: 118.7Mbytes/sec
Savings: 0.0%
created: /Users/sun/Downloads/ubuntu-14.04-desktop-amd64.img.dmg
$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *121.3 GB disk0
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 80.0 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s4
/dev/disk1
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: FDisk_partition_scheme *120.0 GB disk1
1: Windows_FAT_32 UUI 120.0 GB disk1s1
$ diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk1
Unmount of all volumes on disk1 was successful
$ sudo dd if=ubuntu-14.04-desktop-amd64.img.dmg of=/dev/rdisk1 bs=1m
Password:
964+0 records in
964+0 records out
1010827264 bytes transferred in 24.643578 secs (41017877 bytes/sec)
NOTE: wired popup came out , press IGNORE
$ diskutil eject /dev/disk1
Disk /dev/disk1 ejected
Step 4: reboot and boot with usb stick, do the partition
where i selected "something else" to make the Ubuntu partition and completed the ubuntu setup, by selecting the EFI
After booting to Ubuntu cant make WiFi working and there is no other way to go to internet, switched back to Mac OSX
