I just installed the default Ubuntu “Hoary Hedgehog” release on my Sharp Actius MP30 laptop. The results were about the same as with the preview release– still need to add a kernel option to get the trackpad working, and I still haven’t managed to get the built-in wireless working.

I still have some hope: some guy named Carl at Cameltail has managed to get the wireless working under Slackware 10.0.

Some details about how to add the kernel boot option in GRUB:
# Open Applications>System Tools>Terminal
# sudo -s
# Type in your password.
# pico /boot/grub/menu.lst
# Add i8042.nomux to the nonaltoptions line so that it reads:

# nonaltoptions=quiet splash i8042.nomux

# Save the file and exit pico.
# update-grub
# Restart your laptop. If you hit ESC as it’s booting, you will be able to check the GRUB kernel options to see if what you did worked.

Recently, I bought a Sharp Actius MP30 laptop and installed Linux on it. I installed the default Ubuntu “Hoary Hedgehog” preview release. As far as I can tell, everything except the wireless card works out of the box, though I did have to add i8042.nomux as a kernel option in grub to get the trackpad to work, as suggested by some guy named Carl at Cameltail. He’s managed to get the wireless working under Slackware, but I haven’t yet.