Re: [Sugar-devel] SOAS on Dell mini inspiron 10
Hi Russell, I just bought a Dell mini 10 to try SOAS on. I usually run SOAS on an ASUS 701 and it all works lovely. On the Dell mini 10 the trackpad is incredibly (unusabley) sensitive. Also the wireless networking is not working. I bought the mini 10 with the upgraded Dell wireless 1510 half mini card (802.1n). If I boot into the pre-installed Ubuntu 8.04 the wireless networking works (and the trackpad is not mental). I presume you got the Dell Mini 10v (not the plain 10). The plain 10 has a gma-500 Poulsbo graphics chipset and isn't supported. The 10v has the well supported gma-950 chipset. My questions are: 1) Is there a HLC for SOAS? Not sure what a HLC is. 2) Is there a way to set the trackpad sensitivity with SOAS? Not sure its possible from sugar but you might be able to run gnome-mouse-properties from the terminal and set the trackpad stuff there. 3) Is there a way to trouble shoot the wireless network card issue? With regards to the wireless the Broadcom chipset isn't well supported but you might like to try to install the b43-openfwwf package as its a firmware that supports some broadcom chips. yum install -y b43-openfwwf I would be very interested to know if/how it works with that chipset. I've also heard of people buying an intel wifi m-pci card off ebay and swapping them out.. I'm not a total linux noob but I am not a sys admin or a linux systems developer (I've learnt through struggling through really). I've googled for SOAS on the dell mini 10. There are some articles about the mini 9 but nothing I have seen is relevant to my issues. The mini 9 and the 10v are quite similar hardware wise so there should be some useful information. If I get it sorted I will certainly write up a blog post about it so that the Dell mini 10 can be seen as a viable platform for Sugar. At less then 200 quid for a 10 inch netbook it would seem to be a good target platform. Excellent. It would also be useful if you could register a smolt profile for it so we can fully document the specs. You can do this by yum install -y smolt and then running the command smoltSendProfile to register the hardware. If then provides you a public url. Regards, Peter ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] SOAS on Dell mini inspiron 10
On 22 Aug 2009, at 11:31, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Russell, I just bought a Dell mini 10 to try SOAS on. I usually run SOAS on an ASUS 701 and it all works lovely. On the Dell mini 10 the trackpad is incredibly (unusabley) sensitive. Also the wireless networking is not working. I bought the mini 10 with the upgraded Dell wireless 1510 half mini card (802.1n). If I boot into the pre-installed Ubuntu 8.04 the wireless networking works (and the trackpad is not mental). I presume you got the Dell Mini 10v (not the plain 10). The plain 10 has a gma-500 Poulsbo graphics chipset and isn't supported. The 10v has the well supported gma-950 chipset. I guess I did as everything else, excepting the above, works fine. My questions are: 1) Is there a HLC for SOAS? Not sure what a HLC is. Neither am I. I meant Hardware Compatibility List. 2) Is there a way to set the trackpad sensitivity with SOAS? Not sure its possible from sugar but you might be able to run gnome-mouse-properties from the terminal and set the trackpad stuff there. 3) Is there a way to trouble shoot the wireless network card issue? With regards to the wireless the Broadcom chipset isn't well supported but you might like to try to install the b43-openfwwf package as its a firmware that supports some broadcom chips. yum install -y b43-openfwwf I would be very interested to know if/how it works with that chipset. I've also heard of people buying an intel wifi m-pci card off ebay and swapping them out.. I'm not a total linux noob but I am not a sys admin or a linux systems developer (I've learnt through struggling through really). I've googled for SOAS on the dell mini 10. There are some articles about the mini 9 but nothing I have seen is relevant to my issues. The mini 9 and the 10v are quite similar hardware wise so there should be some useful information. If I get it sorted I will certainly write up a blog post about it so that the Dell mini 10 can be seen as a viable platform for Sugar. At less then 200 quid for a 10 inch netbook it would seem to be a good target platform. Excellent. It would also be useful if you could register a smolt profile for it so we can fully document the specs. You can do this by yum install -y smolt and then running the command smoltSendProfile to register the hardware. If then provides you a public url. I will do that. Many thanks for your help. Russell Regards, Peter ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] SOAS on Dell mini inspiron 10
On 22 Aug 2009, at 11:31, Peter Robinson wrote: Hi Russell, I just bought a Dell mini 10 to try SOAS on. I usually run SOAS on an ASUS 701 and it all works lovely. On the Dell mini 10 the trackpad is incredibly (unusabley) sensitive. Also the wireless networking is not working. I bought the mini 10 with the upgraded Dell wireless 1510 half mini card (802.1n). If I boot into the pre-installed Ubuntu 8.04 the wireless networking works (and the trackpad is not mental). I presume you got the Dell Mini 10v (not the plain 10). The plain 10 has a gma-500 Poulsbo graphics chipset and isn't supported. The 10v has the well supported gma-950 chipset. My questions are: 1) Is there a HLC for SOAS? Not sure what a HLC is. 2) Is there a way to set the trackpad sensitivity with SOAS? Not sure its possible from sugar but you might be able to run gnome-mouse-properties from the terminal and set the trackpad stuff there. Couldn't find gnome-mouse-properties in /usr/bin or anywhere else on the path. 3) Is there a way to trouble shoot the wireless network card issue? With regards to the wireless the Broadcom chipset isn't well supported but you might like to try to install the b43-openfwwf package as its a firmware that supports some broadcom chips. yum install -y b43-openfwwf I would be very interested to know if/how it works with that chipset. I've also heard of people buying an intel wifi m-pci card off ebay and swapping them out.. I tried to install th b43-openfwwf packge. Obv I had to plug the stick into my eee pc (since it has working wifi). After running the command I plugged the stick into the dell and still not network joy. I also read this http://discerningthoughts.blogspot.com/2009/07/installing-fedora-11-on-dell-inspirion.html and when I tried to install kmod-wl but that failed with a message about kernel-uname-r (I think). Not sure where to go from here. I'm going to try and follow the instructions here http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Ubuntu to install it on ubuntu on the netbooks, which will get me a working sugar on the laptop, but I'm keen to get soas on the mini 10 still I'm not a total linux noob but I am not a sys admin or a linux systems developer (I've learnt through struggling through really). I've googled for SOAS on the dell mini 10. There are some articles about the mini 9 but nothing I have seen is relevant to my issues. The mini 9 and the 10v are quite similar hardware wise so there should be some useful information. If I get it sorted I will certainly write up a blog post about it so that the Dell mini 10 can be seen as a viable platform for Sugar. At less then 200 quid for a 10 inch netbook it would seem to be a good target platform. Excellent. It would also be useful if you could register a smolt profile for it so we can fully document the specs. You can do this by yum install -y smolt and then running the command smoltSendProfile to register the hardware. If then provides you a public url. Regards, Peter ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] SOAS on Dell mini inspiron 10
On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 04:48:53PM +0100, Russell Brown wrote: 2) Is there a way to set the trackpad sensitivity with SOAS? Not sure its possible from sugar but you might be able to run gnome-mouse-properties from the terminal and set the trackpad stuff there. Couldn't find gnome-mouse-properties in /usr/bin or anywhere else on the path. xset might help. Martin pgpsHuVU0m5XH.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
