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ACER NETBOOK CONVERSION
mangogrooveworkshop - 12/11/09 at 10:01 AM

The problem is my acers netbook A101 Aspire running a funky flavour of linux that wont talk to my nokia 5800 as a modem.
We have done work arounds but they arnt that stable in wine.


I hate windys but will run it in order to talk to the phone....

What flavour should we try of windows or other.


AdamR - 12/11/09 at 10:06 AM

I'm not what you'd call a linux expert, but can you not run the phone software under wine?


BenB - 12/11/09 at 10:23 AM

I run dual-boot at home. Works very well and if you edit the config files (so that the time-out on the OS select is 5 seconds rather than 30) it doesn't slow down much a "normal" boot.


chrsgrain - 12/11/09 at 11:04 AM

I'd buy a different phone.....

CHris


Davey D - 12/11/09 at 12:59 PM

Id just stick with ubuntu on a netbook, and try getting the phone working.


MikeRJ - 14/11/09 at 05:58 PM

Do you mean the Acer One? (not heard of the A101). If so do you have the hard drive version?


mangogrooveworkshop - 14/11/09 at 06:11 PM

quote:
Originally posted by MikeRJ
Do you mean the Acer One? (not heard of the A101). If so do you have the hard drive version?
yes its the hard drive one


McLannahan - 14/11/09 at 06:22 PM

I have the SSD version and I stuck XP on it. Works a treat - fast too, much better than I thought it would be.

Installed it from a bootable USB stick I created with the whole XP install on.


britishtrident - 14/11/09 at 06:41 PM

Simple if you have enough memory use Sun VirtualBox to run Windows as a virtual machine, note it has to be the Sun version not Open Source VirtualBox to run USB devices.
The Sun version is free for personal or evaluation use.

I use this method to run all sorts of Windows USB car diagnostic interfaces on Linux PCs.

http://www.sun.com/software/products/virtualbox/


MikeRJ - 14/11/09 at 06:50 PM

quote:
Originally posted by britishtrident
Simple if you have enough memory use Sun VirtualBox to run Windows as a virtual machine, note it has to be the Sun version not Open Source VirtualBox to run USB devices.
The Sun version is free for personal or evaluation use.

I use this method to run all sorts of Windows USB car diagnostic interfaces on Linux PCs.

http://www.sun.com/software/products/virtualbox/


Unless mango's upgraded it the Aspire One comes with 512MB memory...is running the above going to possible without the whole thing grinding to a halt?