Re: [SoaS] [IAEP] SoaS on What Machines?

2010-04-22 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
One problem with acer aspire one: It will not boot from an SD slot (see notes below), but works well with a USB. My lexar SD to USB adapter lets an SD boot but then it sticks out the side. : / This works on the EeePc900 as SD is on the USB bus... Tom Gilliard satellit ===

Re: [SoaS] [IAEP] SoaS on What Machines?

2010-04-22 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Peter Robinson wrote: Yes, The wireless on all the Acer Aspire Ones is atheros based. On the older 11g devices its ath5k based, on the newer ones with 11n its ath9k. The Acer Aspire One 532H is currently the device I'm recommending for people who want to use Fedora Mini (either Sugar or Mobli

Re: [SoaS] [IAEP] SoaS on What Machines?

2010-04-15 Thread Peter Robinson
Yes, The wireless on all the Acer Aspire Ones is atheros based. On the older 11g devices its ath5k based, on the newer ones with 11n its ath9k. The Acer Aspire One 532H is currently the device I'm recommending for people who want to use Fedora Mini (either Sugar or Moblin). Cheers, Peter On Thu

Re: [SoaS] [IAEP] SoaS on What Machines?

2010-04-15 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Peter; Does the Acer Aspire One 532H support wireless in fedora? I have the EeePC1000HE here and have to use Ubuntu 9.04 to get wireless to work. MY test netbook:EeePC900 (mandriva) does work with soas out of the box. Tom Gilliard Peter Robinson wrote: Hi Caryl, The netbook that I am recomm

Re: [SoaS] [IAEP] SoaS on What Machines?

2010-04-15 Thread Sean McGrath
Caryl Bigenho wrote: > Hi All... [...] > I want to spend as little $$$ as possible. After all, I have a perfectly > wonderful MacBook and this other machine will be used mainly for my > volunteer work. The Mac will run SoaS, with a boot helper disk, will > burn cds and dvds, but it is much eas

Re: [SoaS] [IAEP] SoaS on What Machines?

2010-04-15 Thread Peter Robinson
Hi Caryl, The netbook that I am recommending at the moment is the Acer Aspire One 532H http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/13/acer-aspire-one-532h-review/ It is well supported in Fedora (I think everything works out of the box for both Fedora and Sugar) and is the device that Mel is using for her pi

Re: [SoaS] [IAEP] SoaS on What Machines?

2010-04-14 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Sean and All. I have installed Windows xp on my Mac via BootCamp because there were some things I needed it for (updating my gps for example). However, for some reason it has stopped working. It boots but stalls on the welcome screen. I have misplaced my install disk so I an dead in the w