Have you ever run windows on the netbook/ do you have access to the manufacturers website with drivers? This might be worth a shot if you can find some drivers: http://techtips.salon.com/convert-windows-drivers-linux-11847.html
Please note i am still learning ways around Linux so you probably know much more than i do (using ubuntu for 1 month now :) ). hope this helps On 1 May 2012 10:54, paul sutton <zl...@zleap.net> wrote: > On 01/05/12 10:51, Anton Kanishchev wrote: > > Which wireless card do you have? > > I tried 12.04(lts, x86 version) on 3 computers so far ( 1 from > > 2005-2006) and everything worked without > > any unnecessary configurations. are you using a cd to install 12.04 > > from? I know the image is 701mb which technically doesnt fit on a cd > > but imgburn seemed happy to burn it in my case. I had lots of problems > > with that cd and eventually put 12.04 on a usb stick-flawless > > installation. If you used a cd I'd recommend a live usb stick-much > > quicker in any case. > > > Live usb stick as my netbook doesn't have a cd drive. > > Paul > > > > On 1 May 2012 10:20, paul sutton <zl...@zleap.net > > <mailto:zl...@zleap.net>> wrote: > > > > On 01/05/12 02:20, Roy Jamison wrote: > > > > > > I think what we're trying to say is maybe it's time to upgrade ;) > > > > > > On May 1, 2012 12:13 AM, "Alan Pope" <alan.p...@canonical.com > > <mailto:alan.p...@canonical.com> > > <mailto:alan.p...@canonical.com <mailto:alan.p...@canonical.com>>> > > wrote: > > > > > > On 30/04/12 11:20, paul sutton wrote: > > > > on the partition page i choose set up and tried to partition as > > > > follows > > > > > > > / 50mb > > > > > > That's not big enough. > > > > > > > /home 100mb > > > > > > Neither is that. Also, why have a separate home? > > > > > > > swap 10mb > > > > > > > > > Nor is that big enough. > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > > > Ok all that should be GB, so its a 160gb hard disk, what my > > question > > was is why would it not let me create a 100 gb partition and made > > it 110 > > gb, when i told it to make it 100gb, so I had space at the end for > > the 10gb swap partition. > > > > Anyway 12.04 is up and running, i need to get wireless working, so > > not sure why when I am sure it worked out of the box with 11.10, > > and below. > > > > Separate home, i was under the impression this made life easier > > and was > > the right way to do things (been using linux for years), if I want to > > wipe / later on and install something else, I can do, and it will > > leave > > /home intact and not wipe the data from it, > > > > > > Paul > > > > > > -- > > > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com <mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com> > > <mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > > <mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com>> > > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > -- > > http://www.zleap.net > > http://www.ubuntu.com > > > > skype : psutton111 > > http://www.linkedin.com/pub/paul-sutton/36/595/911 > > > > > > -- > > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com <mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com> > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > -- > http://www.zleap.net > http://www.ubuntu.com > > skype : psutton111 > http://www.linkedin.com/pub/paul-sutton/36/595/911 > > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ >
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