Distro War: the netbook

[James Mcphee]

The *bunt* that I'm using disables suspend on lid close completely.  For now
at any rate.

On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 8:08 PM, Trent Shipley <tshipley at deru.com> wrote:

> By way of review:
>
>
> It looks like the little HP x  Ubuntu will work fine as a document
> reader (HTML and PDF) at hotspots (my intended function).  I just read
> some ESRI documentation at Starbucks.
>
>
> Unfortunately it won't wake after being suspended (like when you open
> the lid).  A quick Google search indicates that Canonical is having
> problems with this bug.  Some OEMs are upset, so I expect it to be fixed
> soon.
>
>
>
> Trent Shipley wrote:
>
> > 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.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> 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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