if you finished install Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick in your computer. After installing, you may got frequent net disconnection issues. The next issue was with the touchpad, how to find a way to make it work. Here, How To: Setting Touchpad on Ubuntu 10.10.
1. Open Terminal and type the following: gedit /etc/default/grub/
2. Edit the line GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=” “ and add GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=”i8042.nopnp”
3. Run: sudo update-grub
4. Reboot.