mangogrooveworkshop
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| posted on 12/11/09 at 10:01 AM |
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ACER NETBOOK CONVERSION
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.
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AdamR
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| posted on 12/11/09 at 10:06 AM |
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I'm not what you'd call a linux expert, but can you not run the phone software under
wine?
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BenB
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| posted on 12/11/09 at 10:23 AM |
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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.
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chrsgrain
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| posted on 12/11/09 at 11:04 AM |
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I'd buy a different phone.....
CHris
Spoing! - the sound of an irony meter breaking...
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Davey D
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| posted on 12/11/09 at 12:59 PM |
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Id just stick with ubuntu on a netbook, and try getting the phone working.
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MikeRJ
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| posted on 14/11/09 at 05:58 PM |
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Do you mean the Acer One? (not heard of the A101). If so do you have the hard drive version?
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mangogrooveworkshop
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| posted on 14/11/09 at 06:11 PM |
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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
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McLannahan
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| posted on 14/11/09 at 06:22 PM |
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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.
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britishtrident
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| posted on 14/11/09 at 06:41 PM |
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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/
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MikeRJ
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| posted on 14/11/09 at 06:50 PM |
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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?
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