[NCLUG] laptop wireless, anyone got a USB 802.11b adapter?

[Jim Hutchinson]

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 9:07 AM, <hugh at mahon.cwx.net> wrote:

> > Wait a minute. You have an HP mini-note? One of these
> > http://h40059.www4.hp.com/hp2133/? Cool. What do you think of it? I'm
> > confused though. I thought the mini-note came with wifi working out of
> the
> > box. I also thought there wasn't any way to boot a USB drive in order to
> > install a different OS. They come with Suse, right? Any got Fedora
> > installed? Can you provide any info on what/how you did that?
>
> The Mini-Note came with Suse installed.  I like having compilers and
> other tools on my system so as soon as I booted the system went looking
> for how to install stuff.  I spent quite a while fiddling with YaST and
> searching Web sites to figure out how to and where I could install
> stuff from.  YaST wasn't very cooperative.  In the process I installed
> RPMs which messed up X.  I thought I had made a backup but it was
> corrupt.
>
> By going into the system setup you can have the system display a boot
> menu of the available media from which to choose, including bootable
> USB devices.  I now have that menu display every time.
>

Good to know. I was told that the mini-note didn't have this ability but you
seem to have discovered otherwise. I really want one of these and that was
holding me back (well that and the lack of $500).


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