Snow Leopard on Hp Mini 110-1020nr

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))

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!

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. 1)Activate the moblin toolbar and select the applications icon
   

2. 2)Choose the Accessories section and select Terminal
   

3. 3)Install the various tools you’ll need
   

sudo yum install rpmdevtools

4. 4)Install the compilers and other tools,
   

sudo yum groupinstall “Development Tools”

5. 5)Install the kernel-netbook-devel package.
   

sudo yum install kernel-netbook-devel

6. 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. 7)Install the resulting rpm,
   

sudo rpm -ivh ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/i586/wl-kmod-5.10.91.9.3-1.moblin.i586.rpm

My ping is slow

Today my speedtest ping was 121ms. :(

Oh crap, now 126ms. :( :(

Let's re-visit rysnc, shall we?

I covered the "rsync" script in an earlier post (located here). But recently my wife and I have evolved into a Mac family and I once again searched for a good syncing utility. Much to my great relief, Mac OS X, a Unix based system INCLUDES the amazing rsync utility. The command is the exact same and it works beautifully. M$ Briefcase take this:

rsync -avuz /Your/Inferior/Win/OS/ /Oober/Awesome/Times/Infinity/

Where, of course, "/Oober/Awesome/Times/Infinity/" then receives any new files from the local directory "/Your/Inferior/Win/OS/" without erasing any extra files not in the "from" directory.

Once again the traits of a superior operating system.

Getting sound to work on Toshiba w/ Linux Mint

To setup the sound correctly on your Toshiba running some sort of ubuntu follow the steps on the following link.

From website:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HdaIntelSoundHowto

More specifically make sure your module parameters at correct. On my computer "options" was only "option" and "model" was only "mode" which cause the module not to load correctly.

Manually Specify Module Parameters

First you must find which model of sound card you use, so run this command:

cat /proc/asound/card0/codec#* | grep Codec

It will return model of your sound card(s), for example: "Codec: Realtek ALC260", so your sound card is ALC260.

You should open a file in ALSA documentation. This file is here (replace KERNEL_VERSION with your kernel's version!):

/usr/src/KERNEL_VERSION/Documentation/sound/alsa/ALSA-Configuration.txt

If you didn't have this file, for version 2.6.22, you can check out this link or you can find ALSA-Configuration.txt in the subdirectory /alsa-kernel/Documentation/ of the alsa-driver-1.x.x directory you created.

Search for your model, and take a look at its types, for example I found the following lines for ALC260:

hp              HP machines
hp-3013         HP machines (3013-variant)
fujitsu         Fujitsu S7020
acer            Acer TravelMate
basic           fixed pin assignment (old default model)
auto            auto-config reading BIOS (default)

Read all of them and try to find the one which is more similar to your sound card, for example if you have a laptop, you can choose "acer".

Open /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base with the following command:

sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base

Then paste the following line at the end of the file (change MODEL with the type of sound card's model, in our example it should be "acer" (without quotation marks)):

options snd-hda-intel model=MODEL

Reboot