Distro War: the netbook

[Trent Shipley]

Stephen wrote:

> 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.
>   
jockey/Hardware Drivers installed drivers.  Wireless now works.

> 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.
>>
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>> Trent Shipley wrote:
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>>> Tuna wrote:
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>>>> *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:
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>> 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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