Ubuntu or Ubuntu Netbook (http://www.ubuntu.com/netbook) should work.
Hsuanyeh ________________________________ From: Laura Conrad <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Mon, April 4, 2011 11:58:48 AM Subject: Re: network issues >>>>> "Dan" == Dan Ritter <[email protected]> writes: >> i recently acquired an acer aspire and installed fc14. neither wlan0 or >> eth0 shows up from dmesg, so the networking gui can't make any connection. >> the wireless is there and was used successfully in the original windows7 >> installation, now gone. any suggestions? Dan> lspci to see what the hardware is. Then start googling for Dan> driver compatibility. What I did with mine was just try linux distributions until I found one that seemed to work. I think I stopped on Easy Peasy Linux. I'm mostly just using it as an ebook reader for PDF's that need a bigger screen than my Nokia N810, though, so what distribution I use isn't very important. -- Laura (mailto:[email protected]) (617) 661-8097 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139 http://www.laymusic.org/ http://www.serpentpublications.org Hard to know whether to file this under excessive government spending, loss of civil liberties (nearly full day detention due to carrying honey), or runaway health care costs. Philip Greenspun, commenting on a report that two bottles of honey set off explosives detection systems, and led to a gardener being detained and two TSA agents being hospitalized. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
