Slow Internet / Can't change brightness on 2010 Macbook AIr running 12.10 Ubuntu

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Published on 2012-10-31T17:38:43Z Indexed on 2012/11/02 17:32 UTC
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The title really says it all. I haven't been able to change the brightness of my monitor since putting Ubuntu on it. I started off with 12.04 and then decided to see if 12.10 would fix the issue. The internet is also a fair bit slower than I am used to, especially when downloading. Apart from these two issues, everything goes very smoothly.

If anyone could offer any advice or solutions, I would be very grateful.

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