[GRLUG] Chrome OS on your computer

[Steve Romanow]

Ive put hexxahs chromiumos build on my daughters mini9 this morningand
it seems to work well.

Have not tried everything yet.

On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 7:48 AM, Ben Rousch <brousch at gmail.com> wrote:
> Unfortunately drivers do still break. The best solution I've found for a
> broken wireless driver is to file a bug report, buy a $5 wireless dongle,
> and use it until the issue is resolved. I had this situation with my EeePC
> 901 from about Ubuntu 9.04 - 10.10.
> For someone that wants to learn the deep Linux magic, I guess messing around
> with downloaded drivers is a good thing. For someone that just wants a
> usable system, messing with non-blessed packages in Ubuntu is likely to
> bring you pain upon upgrades.
> On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Bob Kline <bob.kline at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I have a machine with the bcm 43xx chipset,
>> and wireless worked under Kubuntu 6.04 or thereabouts.
>> Should have left well enough alone.  I "ungraded,"
>> and it's never worked since.  But I've moved on....
>>    -- Bob
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Edwardo Fuentes
>> <edwardo.fuentes at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I appreciate being  welcomed for my first time to this users group. I got
>>> good helpful hints on enabling my broadcom wireless card on ubuntu 10.10.
>>> I found it in the removed the bcm 43xx from the blacklist, installed the
>>> driver & firmware. unfortunately wireless is still not working. gotta check
>>> the card & plugs next. hope to see ya next week.
>>> Thanks;
>>> Edwardo
>>> 616.834.3023
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Bob Kline <bob.kline at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> http://chromeos.hexxeh.net/
>>>> The turnout at last night's GRLUG
>>>> meet was quite good.  At least 14
>>>> people.  The Starbucks location has
>>>> worked out well.  So far there's never
>>>> been any shortage of space for the
>>>> GRLUG meets.
>>>> One fellow showed off his Asus
>>>> machine running Chrome OS.  What
>>>> seemed to be of interest is that it is
>>>> actually installed on the machine,
>>>> since it wasn't clear that Chrome OS
>>>> supported any hardware but Google's
>>>> own CR-48 machine, and the Samsung
>>>> and Acer machines.  But the Asus
>>>> machine runs fine, comes up very
>>>> quickly, and shuts down almost
>>>> instantly.  Not clear what the battery
>>>> life situation is.
>>>> The URL above will take you to a
>>>> website where you can make a USB
>>>> setup, and run Chrome OS on your
>>>> own iron.
>>>>     -- Bob
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