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Originally Posted by entwisi
have you tried actualy putting something like Ubuntu on it? I've just shoved it on a HP Mini Note ( 2133) and it runs lovely with Gnome. Its only got a VIA VGA chip in it so no fancy 3D but for what these things are aimed at its spot on.
It also even runs the propriety Broadcom Wifi card using teh recently released STA drivers.
I was actually really impressed with it as a nice small footprint piece of kit.
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I have considered it - lookied at the ubuntu documentation for it and found this to be the current situation:
Code:
Fully functional:
- Suspend / Resume [ works out of box ]
- Video (with desktop effects)[ works out of box ]
- Wireless Networking [ ath_pci loads by default instead of ath5k, but the fix is easy (see below)]
- wifi power saving [ works out of box ]
- Wired Networking [ works out of box ]
- Webcam [ works out of box ]
- USB [ works out of box ]
- Silent Fan [ fan works, silent?? needs scripts ]
- Audio [ semi-working (output only), internal mic DOES NOT WORK on 2.6.27 *; audio output over speakers broken since kernel 2.6.27.7 ]
- Card Reader power saving [ not tested ]
Partial Function:
- wifi kill switch [ working, but no notification ]
- Card Readers, Bios 3109 [ Work out of the box, but write errors after suspend and on SDHC cards]
- Card Readers, Bios 3305 [ Pre 2.6.27.7: Only right card reader works after setpci described above; no SDHC support]
- Card Readers, Bios 3305 [ 2.6.27.7: Both card readers work again after setpci described above; no SDHC support, but at least the insertion of cards is automatically detected.]
Not Functional:
- Hibernate on A110L [ Seems to work for for some if there is a swap partition that is big enough so we can suspend to it. Test carefully before using!. ]
Wireless module
There has been some confusion as to which wireless driver provides the best performance and reliability. I have found the following:
- madwifi from kernel (ath_pci) - does not attach to hardware.
- ath5k from intrepid backports (ath5k) - connects to hardware, but experiences disconnects on medium to heavy wireless activity, and can not communicate with some AP's using WPA2 PSK.
- madwifi-hal from snapshots.madwifi.org (ath_pci) - Everything works.
Since I am a fan of fluxbox anyway I am happy running this tweaked version of linpus for now - might change when Ubuntu is fully compatible
