[Novalug] HP Mini? tweaking/ installing was Re: Install/Tweak Fest at Oct Meeting?

[Nino Pereira]

Thanks for your suggestions. I'll bring it with me and we can have fun
with it.

See you all then.

Nino


James Ewing Cottrell 3rd wrote:
> Perhaps a Knoppix CD or an Ubuntu USB would be better. Knoppix does a 
> great job at detecting hardware, and as mentioned before. Ubuntu "has 
> more" software from "various sources".
> 
> However, even if Fedora doesn't have "certain firmware", it will often 
> correctly detect the make and model of WiFi Cards.Quite often it's not 
> the Driver that is "unavailable" but the Firmware.
> 
> JIM
> 
> jerry w wrote:
>> I put a Fedora 10 USB Stick into an HP Mini
>> at a Staples store when the Windows was
>> not working and I wanted to see how the
>> hardware worked and compare with
>> OLPC XO's, ASUS EeePC etc,
>> and the wireless didn't work, but other
>> stuff like camera seemed to...
>>
>> Have you tried various LiveCD/
>> USB Drive versions of Linux
>> to see if one distro has something
>> working that you want/ don't
>> have on the current OS/ sofware
>> configuration?
>>
>> hope this helps
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 12:56 AM, Charles M Howe <cmhowe at patriot.net> 
>> wrote:
>>> I second Nino. Alternatively, a different meeting, at a time and plave
>>> TBD.
>>>
>>> Charlie
>>>
>>> On Thu, 2009-10-01 at 18:46 -0400, Nino Pereira wrote:
>>>> to come back from the marginal OT to the topic mentioned in the 
>>>> subject line:
>>>>
>>>> Is the present plan to have an install/tweak fest at the October 
>>>> meeting?
>>>>
>>>> If so, I'd like to know if I can get some help getting an HP 
>>>> notebook running
>>>> linux tweaked up so that it actually works well enough to use 
>>>> conveniently.
>>>> And, I'd like your input on how to re-activate the software that makes
>>>> it possible to have an address like nino.pereira at ecopulse.com, and 
>>>> forward
>>>> that to my google address so that their spam filters can take care of
>>>> all the cruft (or, some other way of accomplishing the same thing).
>>>>
>>>> Am I completely behind in this discussion? If so, maybe the subject 
>>>> line
>>>> should change.
>>>>
>>>> Nino
>>>>
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