On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 14:37 +0000, Steve Fosdick wrote:
- Install Jaunty (nightly build, today 18-Mar-2009).
The first is slightly complicated by the fact that the manufacturer (Toshiba in this case) supply a recovery CD, but the netbook has no CD drive. I am wondering if copying the CD (with dd) to a USB flash key would work.
The second option looked interesting and it seemed I had nothing to lose so I tried it. So far this seems to be a success. The sound works again and the wireless networking works correctly with NetworkManager with no need for the work around I mentioned in my last message and the (wireless) performance seems as good as before but this time using free rather than proprietary drivers. Suspend/resume seems to work too and the wireless works again after resume.
I have been running Ibex on my AAO for some time now..I meant to post the other night but got distracted.
The only problems I have are intermittent suspend resume (they actually vanish from the gnome shutdown menu) and non functional wireless led's (although the wifi kill switch still operates)..oh and I am avoiding the latest kernel updates as apparently they break the ethernet connection.
Glad to hear that the next version of ubuntu works as well if not better on your hardware...makes me feel better about trying it on mine this weekend.
Has anyone tried Crunchbang Linux on any of the netbooks ? http://crunchbanglinux.org/