[SoaS] Fwd: Sugar on a stick working on a HP Mini 2140 Netbook

[Tim McNamara]

Dear Gerry

Wonderful to hear your positive experiences. As you've correctly assumed,
Sugar on a Stick does not contain non-free drivers. Do you have experience
with the Fedora GNU/Linux distribution? If so, I recommend you take a peek
at http://rpmfusion.org/. If not, some instructions are here:
https://answers.launchpad.net/soas/+faq/746

Please let me know if those instructions provide sufficient clarity.

Best regards,

Tim McNamara
@timClicks

2009/12/12 Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>

> FYI
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Gerry Beaudoin <gerry.beaudoin at gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 11:09 PM
> Subject: Sugar on a stick working on a HP Mini 2140 Netbook
> To: walter <walter at sugarlabs.org>
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm a teacher in Edmonton, Alberta with a host of HP Mini 2140
> netbooks in my classroom.  I built myself a bootable USB stick and got
> sugar running on one of our netbooks.  The OS is nothing short of
> extraordinary.  I hope to be able to use it to teach the new computing
> science curriculum to early high school students.
>
> My problem is that I can't seem to connect or even view any network
> access points.  I'm pretty sure it's because the live USB stick
> doesn't include driver support for the Broadcom 802.11a/b/g/draft-n
> hardware included in the netbook.  iwconfig does not report any
> functioning eth ports.  I've tangled with broadcom wireless drivers on
> linux before...
>
> Sound works as does the touchpad.  It even detects battery levels.
> I'm still testing other functionality but would love to get the
> networking/collaboration functionality working. Any suggestions/links?
>
> Thanks for your time,
>
> Gerry
>
>
>
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