I am running build 131 on a Toshiba NB205 (this is the NB205-N210 model sold on opensolaris.com). I've run into three usability issues with OpenSolaris on this netbook:
1. Wireless connection flaps: Under build 130, the wireless connection would go down and up roughly every 10 seconds. A bug was filed for this (6906798) and it was supposed to be fixed by changeset 11377, in build 131. However, in build 131, the behavior is the same, but the connection now stays up for about two minutes at a time: 21:59:58 mac: [ID 486395 kern.info] NOTICE: arn0 link down 22:00:01 mac: [ID 744254 kern.info] NOTICE: arn0 link up 22:03:17 mac: [ID 486395 kern.info] NOTICE: arn0 link down 22:03:20 mac: [ID 744254 kern.info] NOTICE: arn0 link up When the link is up, performance is quite poor; it averages about 95% packet loss. 2. No driver for trackpad: The NB205 has an Alps trackpad which is supported under Windows and Linux, but under OpenSolaris it is only recognized as a generic mouse. The man page for the Synaptics trackpad driver makes mention of support for Alps trackpads, but forcing the synaptics driver to be loaded (as discussed by Uwe Stuehler) results in the trackpad becoming inoperative. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/laptop-discuss/2010-January/008237.html 3. Battery meter does not update: This is also a reported bug (6887974). I have found that running svcadm restart hal will cause the battery meter to refresh once, but this only somewhat mitigates the problem. -Kurt Raschke
