Sebastian, Mel,<div><br></div><div>How is it going getting broadcom support incorporated upstream? Will this be in the next release?</div><div><br></div><div>thanks!</div><div>Caroline<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 9:17 AM, Russell Brown <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:misterruss@googlemail.com">misterruss@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im"><br> <br> On 22 Aug 2009, at 11:31, Peter Robinson <<a href="mailto:pbrobinson@gmail.com">pbrobinson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br> <br> > Hi Russell,<br> ><br> >> I just bought a Dell mini 10 to try SOAS on. I usually run SOAS on an<br> >> ASUS 701 and it all works lovely. On the Dell mini 10 the trackpad is<br> >> incredibly (unusabley) sensitive. Also the wireless networking is not<br> >> working. I bought the mini 10 with the upgraded Dell wireless 1510<br> >> half mini card (802.1n). If I boot into the pre-installed Ubuntu 8.04<br> >> the wireless networking works (and the trackpad is not mental).<br> ><br> > I presume you got the Dell Mini 10v (not the plain 10). The plain 10<br> > has a gma-500 Poulsbo graphics chipset and isn't supported. The 10v<br> > has the well supported gma-950 chipset.<br> <br> </div>I guess I did as everything else, excepting the above, works fine.<br> <div class="im"><br> ><br> >> My questions are:<br> >><br> >> 1) Is there a HLC for SOAS?<br> ><br> > Not sure what a HLC is.<br> <br> </div>Neither am I. I meant Hardware Compatibility List.<br> <div><div></div><div class="h5">><br> >> 2) Is there a way to set the trackpad sensitivity with SOAS?<br> ><br> > Not sure its possible from sugar but you might be able to run<br> > gnome-mouse-properties from the terminal and set the trackpad stuff<br> > there.<br> ><br> >> 3) Is there a way to trouble shoot the wireless network card issue?<br> ><br> > With regards to the wireless the Broadcom chipset isn't well supported<br> > but you might like to try to install the b43-openfwwf package as its a<br> > firmware that supports some broadcom chips. "yum install -y<br> > b43-openfwwf" I would be very interested to know if/how it works with<br> > that chipset. I've also heard of people buying an intel wifi m-pci<br> > card off ebay and swapping them out..<br> ><br> >> I'm not a total linux noob but I am not a sys admin or a linux<br> >> systems<br> >> developer (I've learnt through struggling through really). I've<br> >> googled for SOAS on the dell mini 10. There are some articles about<br> >> the mini 9 but nothing I have seen is relevant to my issues.<br> ><br> > The mini 9 and the 10v are quite similar hardware wise so there should<br> > be some useful information.<br> ><br> >> If I get it sorted I will certainly write up a blog post about it so<br> >> that the Dell mini 10 can be seen as a viable platform for Sugar. At<br> >> less then 200 quid for a 10 inch netbook it would seem to be a good<br> >> target platform.<br> ><br> > Excellent. It would also be useful if you could register a smolt<br> > profile for it so we can fully document the specs. You can do this by<br> > "yum install -y smolt" and then running the command smoltSendProfile<br> > to register the hardware. If then provides you a public url.<br> <br> </div></div>I will do that.<br> <br> Many thanks for your help.<br> <font color="#888888"><br> Russell<br> </font><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br> ><br> > Regards,<br> > Peter<br> _______________________________________________<br> Sugar-devel mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a><br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Caroline Meeks<br>Solution Grove<br>Caroline@SolutionGrove.com<br><br>617-500-3488 - Office<br>505-213-3268 - Fax<br> </div>