[Sugar-devel] Broadcom Driver installations was Re: SOAS on Dell mini inspiron 10

[Caroline Meeks]

Sebastian, Mel,
How is it going getting broadcom support incorporated upstream?  Will this
be in the next release?

thanks!
Caroline

On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 9:17 AM, Russell Brown <misterruss at googlemail.com>wrote:

>
>
> On 22 Aug 2009, at 11:31, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi Russell,
> >
> >> I just bought a Dell mini 10 to try SOAS on. I usually run SOAS on an
> >> ASUS 701 and it all works lovely. On the Dell mini 10 the trackpad is
> >> incredibly (unusabley) sensitive. Also the wireless networking is not
> >> working. I bought the mini 10 with the upgraded Dell wireless 1510
> >> half mini card (802.1n). If I boot into the pre-installed Ubuntu 8.04
> >> the wireless networking works (and the trackpad is not mental).
> >
> > I presume you got the Dell Mini 10v (not the plain 10). The plain 10
> > has a gma-500 Poulsbo graphics chipset and isn't supported. The 10v
> > has the well supported gma-950 chipset.
>
> I guess I did as everything else, excepting the above, works fine.
>
> >
> >> My questions are:
> >>
> >> 1) Is there a HLC for SOAS?
> >
> > Not sure what a HLC is.
>
> Neither am I. I meant Hardware Compatibility List.
> >
> >> 2) Is there a way to set the trackpad sensitivity with SOAS?
> >
> > Not sure its possible from sugar but you might be able to run
> > gnome-mouse-properties from the terminal and set the trackpad stuff
> > there.
> >
> >> 3) Is there a way to trouble shoot the wireless network card issue?
> >
> > With regards to the wireless the Broadcom chipset isn't well supported
> > but you might like to try to install the b43-openfwwf package as its a
> > firmware that supports some broadcom chips. "yum install -y
> > b43-openfwwf" I would be very interested to know if/how it works with
> > that chipset. I've also heard of people buying an intel wifi m-pci
> > card off ebay and swapping them out..
> >
> >> I'm not a total linux noob but I am not a sys admin or a linux
> >> systems
> >> developer (I've learnt through struggling through really). I've
> >> googled for SOAS on the dell mini 10. There are some articles about
> >> the mini 9 but nothing I have seen is relevant to my issues.
> >
> > The mini 9 and the 10v are quite similar hardware wise so there should
> > be some useful information.
> >
> >> If I get it sorted I will certainly write up a blog post about it so
> >> that the Dell mini 10 can be seen as a viable platform for Sugar. At
> >> less then 200 quid for a 10 inch netbook it would seem to be a good
> >> target platform.
> >
> > Excellent. It would also be useful if you could register a smolt
> > profile for it so we can fully document the specs. You can do this by
> > "yum install -y smolt" and then running the command smoltSendProfile
> > to register the hardware. If then provides you a public url.
>
> I will do that.
>
> Many thanks for your help.
>
> Russell
>
> >
> > Regards,
> > Peter
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