Hi
I bought a Toshiba NB 100 about 3-4
months back for about US $ 250 in Dubai which came with an Ubuntu 8.04,
fully functional with 80 GB SATA HDD and 512 MB RAM. Damn neat product.
Works amazing untill the first product update for 8.04. The kernel changes
and the network stops working. The wireless starts working after one downloads
the mad wifi drivers and compile. So basically one needs to get the mad
wifi drivers copied on the flash drive before updating the default product.Then
format the ard disk and do a product recovery, then do an update, reboot
and then re-copy the drivers back from the flash drive, compile them again
and get the wifi running. Then search for network card drivers and get
it working. Quite painful.
However the 9.04 netbook remix was painless.
Seamless. No issues with any devices. However upgrade to 1 GB or 2 GB RAM
is highly recommended as the laptop becomes too slow. The keyboard heats
a bit if you use for 2 hours or so. Battery life is quite good. About 3
hours.
The USB CDMA Huawei EC 121 modem works
superb and works without any tweaking. The modem and connection however
needs to be registered and used first time using windows ...quite wierd.
then using Gnome PPP GUI it works perfect.
Hope this helps
Best Regards
Kedar Apte
Jaunty 9.04 - Dell D630, 2 GB, 160 GB
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