As a start, put in the CD, choose the CD installer from rEFIt then follow the instructions below:

1. Proceed with the installation regularly until the HDD partitioning portion
2. Choose to install on /dev/sda3 and format as “reiserfs” with mount point “/”
3. After disk is formated, go to shell by pressing “Ctrl+Alt+F2″
4. Run the following commands:

   mkdir /mnt/ubuntu
   mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/ubuntu
   dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/ubuntu/swap bs=1024 count=2097152
   swapon /mnt/ubuntu/swap

5. When asked for screen resolution, only press spacebar on 1440×900 or lower
6. Continue until GRUB installation fails. Ignore the failure and install LILO when prompted.
7. Installation should complete and you should be able to boot into Ubuntu, without X Windows.
8. Login the run the following commands:

   sudo apt-get install linux-restricted-modules-$(uname -r) linux-kernel-headers
   sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

   NOTE: If you don’t know your kernel version number, run the command

   echo $(uname -r)

9. Reboot then run the following commands:

   sudo apt-get update
   sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
   sudo apt-get install xorg-driver-fglrx
   sudo depmod -a
   sudo aticonfig --initial
   sudo aticonfig --overlay-type=Xv
   /etc/init.d/gdm restart

10. If you don’t hear a login sound, it means your speaker might not be enabled

Troubleshooting

1. Some warning popup because there is no swap partition / swapon doesn’t work
   Ignore it and it will work just fine
2. There are no sound coming from speaker, but sound is coming from the headphone jack
   run the command

   alsamixer

   from the terminal and un-mute the speaker. This is done by using the arrow keys to reach the Speakers and press M.

3. If rEFIt suddenly becomes disabled and not working, boot into OS X and reinstalls it

Extra Step to Enhance Linux-Macbook Pro

This section will discuss issues like GLX on MBP, Wireless drivers, etc, to make Linux on MBP experience seems more natural.

Installing Wifi Driver

1. sudo apt-get update
2. sudo apt-get install build-essential
3. sudo apt-get install module-assistant
4. m-a prepare
5. sudo apt-get install subversion
6. svn checkout http://svn.madwifi.org/trunk madwifi
7. cd madwifi
8. make clean
9. make
10. sudo make install
11. sudo modprobe ath_pci

Enabling Fn F-Key Combo

• Run from terminal:

  sudo apt-get install pommed

• To enforce using hardware key only with Fn key combination, modify /etc/pommed.conf from fnmode = 1 to fnmode = 2
• Restart pommed by running the command:

  /etc/init.d/pommed restart

Fix Suspend Issue

• Open /etc/default/acpi-support using text editor then set: POST_VIDEO=false

Fix iSight Issue

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sudo modprobe -r uvcvideo
sudo mv /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/ubuntu/media/usbvideo/uvcvideo.ko /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/ubuntu/media/usbvideo/uvcvideo.ko.original
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libusb-0.1-4 libusb-dev linux-headers-$(uname -r)
wget http://files.i-nz.net/projects/linux-kernel/isight/uvcvideo-isight.tar.gz
tar -xzvf uvcvideo-isight.tar.gz
cd against-revision-100
sudo make
sudo make install
sudo modprobe uvcvideo

Enable XGL

1. sudo apt-get install xserver-xgl

2. sudo echo 'Xgl :1 -fullscreen -ac -accel xv:pbuffer -accel glx:pbuffer &
   DISPLAY=:1
   cookie="$(xauth -i nextract - :0 | cut -d ' ' -f 9)"
   xauth -i add :1 . "$cookie"
   exec dbus-launch --exit-with-session gnome-session' > /usr/bin/startxgl

3. sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/startxgl

4. sudo echo '[Desktop Entry]
   Encoding=UTF-8
   Name=Xgl
   Comment=Start an Xgl Session
   Exec=/usr/bin/startxgl
   Icon=
   Type=Application' > /usr/share/xsessions/xgl.desktop

Two Finger Scroll Touchpad and More
This is my current xorg.conf setting for my touchpad. Sensitivity is set to medium and two finger scroll is working. Right click is emulated by using three-fingers-tap

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier      "Synaptics Touchpad"
Driver          "synaptics"
Option          "SendCoreEvents"        "true"
Option          "Device"        "/dev/psaux"
Option          "Protocol"      "auto-dev"
Option "LeftEdge" "150"
Option "RightEdge" "1070"
Option "TopEdge" "100"
Option "BottomEdge" "310"
Option "FingerLow" "17"
Option "FingerHigh" "22"
Option "MaxTapTime" "120"
Option "MaxTapMove" "220"
Option "MaxDoubleTapTime" "180"
Option "HorizEdgeScroll" "0"
Option "VertEdgeScroll" "0"
Option "TapButton1" "1"
Option "TapButton2" "2"
Option "TapButton3" "3"
Option "LockedDrags" "off"
Option "VertScrollDelta" "20"
Option "VertTwoFingerScroll" "1"
Option "MinSpeed" "1.10"
Option "MaxSpeed" "1.30"
Option "AccelFactor" "0.08"
Option "SHMConfig" "on"
EndSection

Installing Compiz-Fusion

• Add the following repositories:

  deb http://download.tuxfamily.org/3v1deb feisty eyecandy-amd64
  deb-src http://download.tuxfamily.org/3v1deb feisty eyecandy-amd64

• Add the following key:

  sudo wget http://download.tuxfamily.org/3v1deb/DD800CD9.gpg  -O- | sudo apt-key add -

• Run the following at terminal:

  sudo apt-get install compiz compiz-gnome compizconfig-settings-manager compiz-fusion-plugins-extra libcompizconfig-backend-gconf beryl-manager

• Run the command:

  beryl-manager

• Right click the “diamond” icon on the system tray and set “Rendering Path” to “Copy”
• Test Compiz-Fusion by running the following command:

  compiz --replace&

• If everything is good, you can remove beryl-manager by issuing the command

  sudo apt-get --purge remove beryl-manager

• And once everything is perfect, you can add the following entries to System -> Preferences -> Sessions
  Name: Compiz Fusion
Command: compiz --replace -c emerald
  and
  Name: Emerald
Command: emerald --replace

Caps Lock Light and Num Lock Key Failuer
Run the command:

sudo apt-get remove mouseemu

Sources:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MacBookProFeisty

http://allostalk.com/showthread.php?p=2787472

• SPI based firewall
• IPSec VPN connection
• Integrated Anti-Virus, Intrusion Detection and Prevention, Anti-Spam and Content Filtering through third party service

Overall, this product is a great performer while small in dimensions. The front panel hosts 2 WAN ports and 4 LAN/DMZ ports. The LAN/DMZ port can be configured as LAN or DMZ segment from the web interface. At the back, there’s a PC-card slot which can be used with a wireless card or turbo card (UTM), but not both. There’s also a console port and modem port at the back of the unit. The modem port provides additional backup gateway solution through either 56K connection or ISDN.
This firewall also available in the UTM platform which includes a turbo card. The turbo card is necessary for running anti-virus and Intrusion Detection and Prevention (IDP). The firewall also have an anti-spam and content filtering functionality. All these features require subscription in the form of iCard.

What separates this from other ZyXEL’s firewall is the dual WAN port which can be configured in active/active or active/passive configuration. ZyWALL 35 is the lowest level firewall from ZyXEL that has dual WAN connection. The former is usually used in environments where traffic is split among two networks (load balancing). The former is usually used in environments where secondary traffic is only used when the primary WAN port is down.