>Not really, can you explain what you saw? How long did the transfer
take, or before it got interrupted?

Aside from seemingly random freezes in the progress bar for a split
second at a time, what you see in the log at that time is what i saw.
The transfer completed successfully.

>Possible side issue, but have you tried disabling screen blanking (xset
s 0) and disabling all other power management which might kick in N
minutes after you last touched the machine?

The first thing i did was removed the default power manager (because it
has always been a problem for me on my previous laptop where it'd go
critically low battery on plugin) and installed kpowermanager and turned
off all the power save stuff except "Prefer power savings over
performance" on battery (option not available when plugged in, but i
have had the issue come up while plugged in too, so i doubt that option
is the culprit). I did this because this new laptop is like the old
laptop in that it has an ati card. My last laptop would have major
issues with power save functions and that ati card not returning from a
power save mode (actually, it ended up freezing the computer because i
could not ssh in).

>Also, you could try removing the battery and running just on mains, so
that you don't get any ACPI events like "battery fully charged". My
Thinkpad X100e has strange lockups in these circumstances.

Considering these never happen during those times and i've often since
restarted the driver after plugging it in or unplugging it, i doubt this
is the case, however later on i will try it just to be sure.

>More likely, they care about their Windows customers but not those who
replace Windows with Linux, since the product was never advertised as
working with Linux in the first place. This makes buying a laptop for
Linux a risky business.

Yeah, when i bought the thing i called my girlfriend and had her do some
serious google work while i was looking at them. She said that she found
this particular laptop as one they managed to get working using ndis or
they solved the driver issues. Turns out the laptop walmart gave me
merely looks like the one i picked out (not complaining, as i paid
500usd for what i found out to be a 700usd laptop). Consequently, this
lead to the problem I'm having right now.

>If you want a laptop with a Unix-based O/S which works out of the box,
probably your best bet is a Macbook - but you pay a large premium for
that.

I prefer an x86 laptop (because i like to do assembly development).

>I notice Dell still have an Ubuntu page:
>http://www.dell.co.uk/ubuntu
>but AFAICS that now links to a list of laptops with Windows and no mention of 
>Ubuntu.

Worse yet, my last laptop was a Dell. That thing was a horror story,
because the hardware was more compatable with ubuntu than it was with
the world. The lid specifically was obviously designed to physically
break with time (which it did, hence why i opened it up in the first
place), but i'd rather not delve into the details here, as that would be
counter productive.

>Otherwise, if the wireless is a miniPCI card, you can replace it with
one with better driver support.

More investment. I don't know what it is for sure, but it's on the
inside, not the outside, and this laptop doesn't have any external ports
except USB, HDMI, VGA, Ethernet (which surpsrisingly doesn't work) and
your standard mic and headphone jacks.

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