Installing Kubuntu on a ThinkPad A30

Summary

I have a A30 (2652-3CU) model. I wanted to install Kubuntu upon it and get everything working, using the base install as much as possible. That is I didn't want to install a bunch of extra software. I just wanted an 'out of the box' configuration

Update System

First things first get your system up to date

 $ sudo su
 $ aptitude update
 $ aptitude upgrade

Wireless LAN

I wanted to use WPA encryption. The wpasupplicant module makes WPA encryption possible. Kubuntu comes with the orinico wireless driver installed by default. Unfortunately wpasupplicant doesn't work with the orinico driver. Fortunantely The orinico driver does not support WPA. To use WPA I needed to install the hostap driver and wpa_suppplicant