Distro War: the netbook

[Stephen]

see if you have ndis wrapper installed and maybe you can wake it up?
you might possibly have the first netbook with an incompatible nic in
it for linux, as the linux community seems to work hard at making that
work.

On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Trent Shipley <tshipley at deru.com> wrote:
> I got netbook Ubuntu installed and working beautifully...except for
> wireless networking.  Unfortunately, the main reason for getting a
> netbook was for wireless networking.
>
>
>
> Trent Shipley wrote:
>
>> Tuna wrote:
>>
>>
>>> *bump because the timestamp is crazy-early and probably at the bottom
>>> of everyone's mail client*
>>>
>>> Ryan Rix will tell you Fedora, and can also tell you a thing or two about
>>> bootable USB drives on netbooks.
>>>
>>> Can you tell us what make and model of netbook it is?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download-netbook
>>
>> Wound up going with this.
>>
>>
>> HP Mini 110-1125NR
>> s/n CNU94438GZ
>> p/n VM 135UA#ABA
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> Your messages appear to be getting greylisted, so Ryan may want to take
>>> this discussion off list.
>>>
>>> Excerpts from Trent Shipley's message of Fri Nov 20 17:04:57 -0700 2009:
>>>
>>>
>>>> I just got a netbook and it is running Windows 7 Starter.  I intend to
>>>> promiscuously attach it to public networks.  I figure I can avoid a lot
>>>> of heartache by changing the OS to Linux.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I already have Kubuntu on my favorite desktop.  I like it, except that
>>>> after every major upgrade it gets flaky for a while.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 1) I'd like to use anything except *ubuntu on the netbook.  What are
>>>> some promising options?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 2) I assume I use a bootable memory stick to start getting the distro, yes?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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