Alright, so I’ve had some more EEE adventures since my last post. First off, I need to do a system restore. I’m amazed that I’m actually still able to be writing this on the EEE. About an hour ago I was thinking I would have to make a run down to Office Max to pick [...]
After spending the better part of this afternoon battling with various cd’s, dvd’s, and flash drives, I am unfortunately no closer now to having XP on my EEE than I was this morning. Actually, in some ways I’m further from it. I’ve basically concluded that I’m going to need an external dvd drive and a [...]
I finally figured out what was wrong with Ubuntu and my WLAN so I’ve got it up and running now. It was a little bit my fault and a little bit Linux’s fault. I discovered that where I thought it was asking for the name of my network it was actually asking me to select [...]
No not laughing out loud, I’m talking Linux on (my) laptop. OK, so I exaggerated a bit when I said half the hardware wasn’t recognized, but it is a good portion which isn’t. I decided to give a different distro a shot and went with Mandriva. Mandriva seems to work and run better using a [...]
So putting Linux on my laptop has proved to be an interesting and frustrating experience. I now have Ubuntu installed and running but it won’t recognize any wireless networks which kind of defeats the purpose of using a laptop. It also doesn’t recognize about half of the hardware in the computer (which I don’t entirely [...]
