USB on BenQ laptop

[Tony Marsh]

Hi all
I just recently downloaded Ubuntu and joined the list to gain enlightenment
- have installed Feisty on my BenQ Joybook R31 notebook - not a fan of dual
boot systems so I did the right thing and took the windows hard drive out
first and put it somewhere safe (the trash I hear you say?) and bought a new
one - anyway there's nothing on the windows disk worth worrying about nor on
the hard drive with Feisty at the moment - I just wanted to have some fun!
Woohoo - it aint called a joybook for nothing - ok I know some people are
easily amused by I really enjoyed the challenge of installing and
configuring everything. Didn't experience the recently reported issues with
kernel upgrade and network manager btw. But I have found Ive had to boot
with noapic switch to gain usb control - its no big deal really except that
in that state wireless networking doesn't work but as I have a wired
connection as well that's no problem. As soon as Feisty is fully released I
will post my experiences to the laptop testing team at
wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTestingTeam cos I don't see any entries for my
notebook - don't imagine they would want a report before the final release
is out (btw what a great resource that is if you were thinking of buying
one). Anyway I just wanted to ask if anyone reckons its likely that there
may be a resolution to the usb problem down the track so I can do usb and
wireless at the same time? Now don't go asking me to supply dmesg output
before and after plugging in usb etc etc as Im pretty sure Ive exhausted all
options that have appeared from a decent old googling and I don't want to
waste anyone's precious time. cheers Tony