ubuntu on laptop

[rpowersau at gmail.com]

On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 03:54:57 -0800 (PST), Wendy Leigh Vandoolaeghe
<wlv21 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hi
> 
> i've had trouble getting Mandrake 10.1 to work on a Solo Gateway laptop.
> But am now considering wiping harddisk and installing ubuntu. has anyone
> installed ubuntu on this type of laptop and what are my chances of getting
> it to work? Or should i rather stick with debian testing?

I have a Gateway Solo 9100. Ubuntu installed with no problems and
everything just worked.

> 
> cheers
> wendel
> 
> Errors at start-up were related to cpufreq and pcmcia. The pcmcia card
> works but the system breaks at shutdown during the step of shutting down
> pcmcia services with the error message Trying to free non-existent resource
> <000002e8-000002ef>
> 
> [root at emt1000 emt1000]# cardctl ident
> Socket 0:
>   no product info available
> Socket 1:
>   product info: "Xircom", "CreditCard Ethernet 10/100 + Modem 56",
> "CEM56", "1.00"
>   manfid: 0x0105, 0x110a
>   function: 2 (serial)
> 
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> Wendy Leigh Vandoolaeghe
> e-mail: wlv21 at cam.ac.uk
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Regards,
Russ