I have an MSI wind U90, the gOS installed gr8 every thing works, but the wirless doesn't, i can see it listed in:
$ lspci 01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 02) 02:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Unknown device 8199 (rev 22) and i'm guessing that the wirless card is the 2nd one called Unknown device 8199, but i don't know how i get it working. and to make it harder i don't know all that much about lunix.... i looked on the forums and it seems that no one has gotten wirless cards to work... i did find linux wireless drivers for Linux but its only seems to be for SUSE: http://www.notebook-driver.com/msi/msi-wind-u90-netbook-drivers-for-windows-xp-and-linux/ so has any one gotten it to work? thanks On Dec 3 2008, 10:06 am, mahjongg <[email protected]> wrote: > Netbooks typically have a specially geared Linux distro, often with > unique drivers just for the hardware in that system. So no other, > generic, distro might have all the drivers for the hardware in these > netbooks. > > Netbook makers still do not care if the hardware they choose to build > a netbook with has Linux support, they simply put in any cheap > hardware they can get, even if its not officially supported with > generic Linux drivers, and make a deal with the maker of the hardware > so that it works on their distro. That is how they have always worked > with Windows, they figure the maker of the hardware must simply make > sure it works with what they design. > > But even when they sell hardware for Linux based netbooks, the > hardware manufacturers often do not want to put in the effort to make > sure the drivers work with all linux distro's, (by following > established practices) so they do not release generic Linux drivers. > > Netbook makers should choose hardware for which the producer already > has written generic Linux drivers, sadly they do not. Perhaps buyers > should insist that the netbook they buy only uses components for which > generic Linux drivers exist, unfortunately this understanding has not > reached the public yet. > > In the meantime it is still not uncommon to find a WiFi USB dongle a > netbooks for which a Linux driver simply does not exists. > > On 2 dec, 23:05, haim <[email protected]> wrote: > > > and any help with installing the wireless on the current version will > > be great!!! > > > thanks > > > haim > > > On Oct 8, 1:06 am, tron <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hey all, > > > > Firstly great distro setup. Love the ease of use on the netbook, I > > > have tried Ubuntu and Foresight and found issues with both of them, > > > Ubuntu, not scaling some screens to fit the 10" screen size, and > > > Foresight even though it has been designed with the netbook in mind, I > > > found that it is very slow, with gOS both of these issues I haven't > > > come across (Yet). > > > > Now onto my particular problem, when I was looking at this distro I > > > noted that on the front page that they are using theMSIWindU100 as > > > the netbook that is loaded with it, I thought great, install it and > > > all will work, ahh but alass it wasn't the case, I found that I still > > > don't have native wireless and that I am going to have to do a patch/ > > > hack to get it running (being based on Ubuntu, yes I know how to do > > > this, just a bit annoying that this is the case). I also noted that in > > > the piccys taken at the LinuxWorld Confrence that theWindas well as > > > other netbooks were being shown off as being able to run this OS. > > > > Is anyone able to tell me, why wasn't it written into the Kernel or as > > > an auto patch when loaded onto a U100. Will this be a patch that will > > > be done on a future release (I know that the 27 Kernel will be having > > > native support for my wireless card) will gOS be accepting the new > > > Kernel or will it still be running the 24 Kernel? > > > > Once again these are just some small issues that I hope someone can > > > shead some light on for me. > > > > Thanks > > > tron --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gOS Linux" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/goslinux?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
