Netbook

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I have a MSI Wind U100 and am running Ubuntu 8.10 on it. 

It is excellent, with a couple of small provisos:

The model has different hardware depending on when you bought it, which
region it was purchased in, etc. In particular, there are at least two
models of webcam used and two different wifi cards.

Mine model has the RT2860 wifi card, which is not supported out of the
box by 8.10. I am using the Debian package, which works most of the
times, but really struggles with WPA (at least on my home network). I've
played with network manager and wicd, with some success. Next step is to
look at ndiswrapper around the windows driver or start doing some more
detailed debugging of the WPA problem.

Apart from that, everything works: bluetooth, sound, suspend, etc.


On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 10:20:34 +1030, "IKT" <noname420 at gmail.com> said:
> Has anyone seen/got experience with the MSI wind?
> 
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> On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 7:00 PM, Simon Ives <simon at simonives.info> wrote:
> 
> > Thanks to all who replied to my questions regarding netbooks.  I'm going to
> > be in Brisbane for a day before I head overseas and am thinking of picking
> > up a netbook while I'm there (the options and service out here in Mt. Isa
> > are terrible!) .  Does anyone have any suggestions as to where I can pick up
> > a well priced netbook in Brisbane at a location that's on a public
> > transport route?
> >
> > Thanks.
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