Lykourgos Moustopoulos wrote:
Hallo
I have very recently got a Mini HP2140 with:
Broadcom Corporation BCM4322 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller (rev 01)
Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Device 436c (rev 10)
Broadcom cards are not supported by free software, although you can see
below.
I installed Ubuntu 9.04 Netbook remix, just to experiment with linux,
which works fine for my purposes:
1) Easy to use
2) Wireless access to Internet OK
3) Wireless USB 3G Modem (ZTE MF636) using wvdial OK , after doing some
modification as described in page:
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1005910.html
After some time I came across gNewSense which triggered my curiosity,
therefore I dowloaded gNewSense 2.2 and played from live CD (no
installation as I want to experiment first).
My questions:
1) Can I install gNewSense in my harddisk without touching the Ubuntu
9.04 (by using some partition?)
Absolutely. Just make a partition for it. I like a grub partition for
more than two installations, but this is not essential.
2) Can I get my wireless running ( it is not running from liver CD)
Perhaps. There is a reverse engeneered firmware which may work,
available at http://www.ing.unibs.it/openfwwf/ . I haven't tried it
myself, although I do have a couple of Broadcom cards around.
3) Any idea whether USB 3G modem could work in a similar way?
Maybe someone else on the list will have an idea.
Tor
Any advise welcome
Thanks in advance
Lykourgos
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