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L Smith wrote:
a bit off topic but, i checked out a friends laptop who had thought it was no good any more,and had done a fairly good job of destroying the hard drive. as i recall it was an acer,any way i took the hard drive out of my old vaio and put it in to check it,i could not stop laughing as it fired into life showing a big ubuntu screen so i let it run,expecting an explosion any second. to my surprise it went straight in and found the wireless drivers and works great.HiI purchased a Samsung NC10 Netbook on Saturday, first act was to remove XP and install Mint 6. I then decided to try a 3G Mobile Broadband Dongle previously used on XP, expecting some problems, amazed that Mint recognised it and installed it and within a couple of minutes I was able to log on to the internet.Of course you will all know this but here's me not knowing a thing and it all worked first time!LenaOne word of warning (I have two Samsung NC10s) some are being sold at about £70 cheaper than others, these have a smaller battery and thus do not have the usual 6 hours plus running time that most reviews of the NC10 mention.
can any one explain why or was i just lucky. alex the not so noob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html