[Sugar-devel] SOAS on Dell mini inspiron 10

[Russell Brown]

On 22 Aug 2009, at 11:31, Peter Robinson 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.
>
>> My questions are:
>>
>> 1) Is there a HLC for SOAS?
>
> Not sure what a HLC is.
>
>> 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.
>

Couldn't find gnome-mouse-properties in /usr/bin or anywhere else on  
the path.

>> 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 tried to install th b43-openfwwf packge. Obv I had to plug the stick  
into my eee pc (since it has working wifi). After running the command  
I plugged the stick into the dell and still not network joy. I also  
read this http://discerningthoughts.blogspot.com/2009/07/installing-fedora-11-on-dell-inspirion.html 
  and when I tried to install kmod-wl but that failed with a message  
about kernel-uname-r (I think).

Not sure where to go from here. I'm going to try and follow the  
instructions here http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Ubuntu 
  to install it on ubuntu on the netbooks, which will get me a working  
sugar on the laptop, but I'm keen to get soas on the mini 10 still



>
>> 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.
>
> Regards,
> Peter