Re: [Nolug] Gateway ML3109 w/Ubuntu

From: Donnie Cameron <donnie_at_solomonstreet.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 12:16:07 -0400
Message-ID: <24e3b4050709260916i38387de0i4b8329cef598a1a6@mail.gmail.com>

Sorry, bad link. This link works: http://donnieknows.com/GatewayML3109

On 9/26/07, Donnie Cameron <donnie@solomonstreet.com> wrote:
>
> About the cheap gateway:
>
> The specs: http://www.gateway.com/retail/ml3109.php
>
> The wireless required ndiswrapper, but it was easy and I can provide
> instructions. There's also a linux driver, but it has some problems. The
> ndiswrapper solution works much better.
>
> The sound required a patch, but I wrote a script that downloads the source
> for the drivers, downloads the patch, patches the sources, compiles the
> code, and installs the driver. I already had to run the script once because
> of a kernel update. It works fine.
>
> I'll try to write down exactly what steps I took to get everything working
> (see http://donnieknows.com/GatewayML3109
> <http://donnieknows.com/GatewayMl3109>).
>
> I'm really happy with this computer. At this moment, I'm instant messaging
> with 2 people, writing this e-mail, listening to Magnatunes, on a VPN, I
> have a half-dozen terminal windows open (mostly SSHing to various other
> computers), and I'm editing several files in two instances of Emacs.
> Everything is working flawlessly on compiz-fusion. I'm using a backlit USB
> keyboard and mouse and I have a 20.1" screen hooked up to the laptop. I'll
> have my 2GB RAM later today and then I'll be running VMs too. Couldn't ask
> for more.
>
> --Donnie
>
> On 9/26/07, Chris Jones <techmaster@gmail.com > wrote:
> >
> > Yeah I was eyeing those a while back, but at that price I figured they
> > were junk... So does everything, including the wireless, just work? Or do
> > you have to fool with ndiswrapper to get wireless working, etc? At $350, if
> > it runs linux well, then it kind of makes the Asus EEE 701 pointless, as I'm
> > sure its specs are at least better than that thing.
> >
> > On 9/26/07, Mischa D. Krilov <rossum@gmail.com > wrote:
> > >
> > > What are its specs?
> > >
> > > Mischa
> > > --
> > > Read my blog: http://rossum.blogspot.com
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> >
> >
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