---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Mithun Shitole mithunit@gmail.com Date: Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 1:42 PM Subject: [PLUG] Found a laptop which is Linux friendly To: Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List plug-mail@plug.org.in
Hi, This is just to share my experience with the laptop purchase. I have purchased two Lenovo G550 Laptops. I installed Ubuntu 10.04 on it. And to my surprise, everything worked out of box. Wifi, Bluetooth, Graphics, Sound. It was like a breeze. Its a core 2 duo, 3gb ram, 320gb hard disk machine. I am very happy with my deal. After I purchased another Lenovo laptop, this time core i3. Its G560. I installed Ubuntu 10.04 64bit, and it also worked fine.
I hope this will help someone who wants to buy a laptop and run Linux onto it.
Thanks and regards, Mithun _______________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List
i recently bought a dell inspiron n series n5010 laptop and installed ubuntu 10.04lts on it and its working flawlessly. its also a 320gb hdd but i upgraded the 3gb ram to 4 gb. It uses the corei3 processor (4 cores). Only problem i had was with tata indicom's photon plus usbmodem to be recognized on it.
after searching on google was able to resolve that issue after quite some effort as follows
That was resolved by installing the usb_modeswitch package and using 2 commands from the terminal to get an internet connection sudo usb_modeswitch -v 0x12d1 -p 0x1446 -c /etc/usb_modeswitch.d/12d1:1446 and usb-devices
One may have to give the 2 commands a few times to flush some cached information regarding the system. Sometimes the mobile broadband is not activated even when the usbmodem's address is changed from 1446 to 140b for the HUawei ec1261 usbmodem which is used in the photonplus. Then one has to restart tthe NetworkManager daemon
sudo service network-manager restart
and it works. Sometimes some persistence is required to get the usbmodem to be recognised. Taking it out and replugging it is needed as a last resort. kussh
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Easwar Hariharan meindian523@gmail.comwrote:
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Mithun Shitole mithunit@gmail.com Date: Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 1:42 PM Subject: [PLUG] Found a laptop which is Linux friendly To: Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List plug-mail@plug.org.in
Hi, This is just to share my experience with the laptop purchase. I have purchased two Lenovo G550 Laptops. I installed Ubuntu 10.04 on it. And to my surprise, everything worked out of box. Wifi, Bluetooth, Graphics, Sound. It was like a breeze. Its a core 2 duo, 3gb ram, 320gb hard disk machine. I am very happy with my deal. After I purchased another Lenovo laptop, this time core i3. Its G560. I installed Ubuntu 10.04 64bit, and it also worked fine.
I hope this will help someone who wants to buy a laptop and run Linuxonto it.
Thanks and regards, Mithun _______________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List
-- Regards, Easwar Registered Linux user #442065 -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
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