I was able to successfully install SL on my Hp Mini tonight. It runs great. Trackpad works well. Only one huemungonormous problem - no WiFi OR Ethernet...
Great little netbook, amazing OS and no connection to the internet. I googled it for well over an hour and it seems everyone's solution has been to just swap the wireless chipset in the 110 models for that of the 1000 models - but hey I just spent money on this netbook, not to mention the extended life battery - I don't want to replace the wireless chipset just yet. Does anyone know of a work-around? Maybe ndiswrapper for Mac or something?? ((Really drawing at strings here))
Friday, November 20, 2009
Moblin 2.1 WiFi Hp Mini 110-1020nr
Well I just bought my first netbook last night and I am proud to say the OS that shipped with it never had a chance to boot on it. I initially tried to load the Hp MIE Linux but to no avail. I'm not sure what the problem is -- it would hang somewhere around 25% through the boot sequence.
Anyways, I moved on pretty quickly to Moblin (v2.1). Everything works perfectly with the exception of the WiFi. Fortunately for me, there is another fellow who developed a work-around for his Dell Mini 9 that uses the same chipset as my new netbook.
His method can be seen here:
http://slaine.org/_slaine/Dell_Mini_9.html
Thanks Glen!
Anyways, I moved on pretty quickly to Moblin (v2.1). Everything works perfectly with the exception of the WiFi. Fortunately for me, there is another fellow who developed a work-around for his Dell Mini 9 that uses the same chipset as my new netbook.
His method can be seen here:
http://slaine.org/_slaine/Dell_Mini_9.html
Thanks Glen!
UPDATED 23 NOV 09:
In case slaine decides to take down his post for whatever reason here is a copy of the instructions of his site -- again this is all his work, I'm just re-posting for ease-of-access:
1)Activate the moblin toolbar and select the applications icon
2)Choose the Accessories section and select Terminal
3)Install the various tools you’ll need
sudo yum install rpmdevtools
4)Install the compilers and other tools,
sudo yum groupinstall “Development Tools”
5)Install the kernel-netbook-devel package.
sudo yum install kernel-netbook-devel
6)Now we’re ready to build and install the new broadcom drivers
wget http://slaine.org/files/moblinv2/wl-kmod-5.10.91.9.3-1.moblin.src.rpm
(This build will download the broadcom driver archive directly from their site)
rpmbuild --rebuild --target=i586 wl-kmod-5.10.91.9.3-1.moblin.src.rpm
7)Install the resulting rpm,
sudo rpm -ivh ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/i586/wl-kmod-5.10.91.9.3-1.moblin.i586.rpm
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