Re: Distro War: the netbook

2009-11-22 Thread Trent Shipley
I suppose I should change that setting and see if it helps. What a waste of battery life. James Mcphee wrote: > 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 > wrote: > >

Re: Distro War: the netbook

2009-11-22 Thread 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 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).

Re: Distro War: the netbook

2009-11-22 Thread Trent Shipley
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 searc

Re: Distro War: the netbook

2009-11-22 Thread Trent Shipley
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 n

Re: Distro War: the netbook

2009-11-22 Thread Stephen
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. On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Trent Shipley wrote: > I got netbook Ubuntu inst

Re: Distro War: the netbook

2009-11-22 Thread Trent Shipley
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 ev

Re: Distro War: the netbook

2009-11-22 Thread James Finstrom
Centos has a good guide to making bootible thumbdrives google it will prob ably be universal with tweaks On 11/22/09, 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, an

Re: Distro War: the netbook

2009-11-22 Thread Trent Shipley
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://w

Re: Distro War: the netbook

2009-11-22 Thread Tuna
*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? Your messages appear to be getting gre

Distro War: the netbook

2009-11-22 Thread Trent Shipley
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 f