Re: [ubuntu-uk] Zoostorm laptop at ebuyer.com

2013-01-31 Thread Paula Graham
On 19/01/13 10:21, Colin Law wrote: > On 19 January 2013 10:16, Mark Fraser wrote: >> On Friday 18 Jan 2013 09:32:35 Simon Greenwood wrote: >>> On 18 Jan 2013 07:59, "Mark Fraser" wrote: Found this zoostorm laptop on ebuyer's website >>> http://www.ebuyer.com/411061- >>> zoostorm-laptop

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Zoostorm laptop at ebuyer.com

2013-01-31 Thread Rowan Berkeley
On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 6:46 PM, Paula Graham wrote: > >>> On 18 Jan 2013 07:59, "Mark Fraser" wrote: > Found this zoostorm laptop on ebuyer's website > >>> http://www.ebuyer.com/411061- > >>> > >>> > I've got the i3 version of the Zoostorm laptop - 12.04 installed > perfectly except wifi c

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Zoostorm laptop at ebuyer.com

2013-01-31 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2013-01-31 18:46, Paula Graham wrote: > I've got the i3 version of the Zoostorm laptop - 12.04 installed > perfectly except wifi chip is a bit of a pain, needs to be hunted down, > compiled and then recompiled every time the kernel upgrades - native > driver should be in kernel 3.8. The current

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Zoostorm laptop at ebuyer.com

2013-01-31 Thread Kris Douglas
On 31 January 2013 20:30, Tyler J. Wagner wrote: > An important thing to remember when buying laptops is that the wireless > chipset is usual a mini/micro/whatever PCI card and can be swapped out for > something with better support. When I run into a weird/Dell/Broadcom wifi > chipset with bad Lin