Hi Kevin, So HP have gotten your goat too - they're not out to make friends with us Linux users!
Yes my wireless is working fine, but I do enjoy the warm fuzzy security that my ethernet connection gives me and I'm not particularly keen to do any financial transactions over wireless (viz. my alfoil hat). cheers, Meryl On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 11:24:51 +0800 Kevin Shackleton <krshackle...@gmail.com> wrote: > Can you not just use wifi - maybe grab a cheap/disused AP so you can > set up an instant wireless zone-for-one, if only wired ethernet is > presently available to you. Or even a 3G+twisted pair AP like a > Netgear MBRN3000 - excellent! No good of course if your wifi doesn't > work :-( > > I've just messed around with a brand new HP that they were very > reluctant to fix on warranty - the video crashed every couple of > minutes (and self-recovered after a few seconds). This was in > Windows, despite their using up a lot of my time searching through > what seemed like all combinations of original and updated drivers. > It worked fine in Linux but I suspect there was something rotten in > the motherboard (that the video chip would not work in whatever mode > that Windows was using) that was going to emerge before long. For > their disinterest, HP are now in my blacklist, where before they were > just grey. > > Cheers, > > Kevin. > > On 12 October 2011 10:56, meryl <gnu...@aromagardens.com.au> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I suspect either my ethernet port has failed or perhaps it's the > > networking chipset on my motherboard. I contacted HP who were > > useless because > > 1. my notebook is just out of waranty and > > 2. I'm a 'naughty' Linux user (tisk, tisk!). > > > > So can anyone recommend a reputable notebook repairer in Sydney / > > / Northern Beaches / Nth Shore area that could troubleshoot and fix > > my problem. I'd rather not patch it up with a PCMCIA ethernet card > > if I can avoid it. > > > > cheers, > > Meryl > > -- > > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
