Netbooks on Linux

[Kedar.Apte at cedar-consulting.com]

Hi

I bought a Toshiba NB 100 about 3-4 months back for about US $ 250 in 
Dubai which came with an Ubuntu 8.04, fully functional with 80 GB SATA HDD 
and 512 MB RAM. Damn neat product. Works amazing untill the first product 
update for 8.04. The kernel changes and the network stops working. The 
wireless starts working after one downloads the mad wifi drivers and 
compile. So basically one needs to get the mad wifi drivers copied on the 
flash drive before updating the default product.Then format the ard disk 
and do a product recovery, then do an update, reboot and then re-copy the 
drivers back from the flash drive, compile them again and get the wifi 
running. Then search for network card drivers and get it working. Quite 
painful.

However the 9.04 netbook remix was painless. Seamless. No issues with any 
devices. However upgrade to 1 GB or 2 GB RAM is highly recommended as the 
laptop becomes too slow. The keyboard heats a bit if you use for 2 hours 
or so. Battery life is quite good. About 3 hours. 

The USB CDMA Huawei EC 121 modem works superb and works without any 
tweaking. The modem and connection however needs to be registered and used 
first time using windows ...quite wierd. then using Gnome PPP GUI it works 
perfect.

Hope this helps

Best Regards
Kedar Apte
Jaunty 9.04 - Dell D630, 2 GB, 160 GB HDD
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