Posts Tagged wireless
EEE 701, Kubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) and Unetbootin
My desktop PC is still running Kubuntu Hardy, it’s running dandy, so I see no real reason to upgrade it to Intrepid. But my EEE 701 PC was still running an early Hardy with KDE 3.5.x so I decided to wipe it and do a fresh install of Intrepid on it. Just for the hell of it. Armed with my Intrepid ISO I fumbled about trying to remember how to use the iso2stick script, but accidentally discovered a GUI app called Unetbootin which will put almost any distro on a USB stick! You can grab a .deb of it from: http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/
Unetbootin - awaiting orders...
You simply choose which distro you have (from the drop down menus at the top of the window), give it the ISO file, choose your USB drive and click OK.
Unetbootin - creating a bootable USB stick with Kubuntu Intrepid!
Installing Kubuntu Intrepid to the EEE was easy as ever. Just boot from the USB stick, click the install icon, fill in several details and wait a bit. First boot was pretty quick and everything looked (KDE 4.1) pretty. I immediately tried the wireless and… it didn’t work. Some posts in Ubuntu Forums suggest disabling the wireless drivers to make it work, but no go. So it was up to Google to (again!) provide the answer. And provide it did! One search result let me to Array.org which is a repository for an EEE PC *buntu kernel which fixes the wireless, webcam and such.
Kubuntu Intrepid with the Array.org kernel, note the (working!) wireless icon in the tray
Installing the Array.org kernel is easy. You basically add the Array.org repo to your sources.list (along with it’s key) and install the linux-eeepc package. Full details are at: http://www.array.org/ubuntu/setup-intrepid.html
I’m very impressed with KDE 4.1 on the EEE, it might be a low spec notebook but it can do semi-transparent wobbly windows, with drop shadows, and all without breaking sweat!
Brief review of the Sony Ericsson P1i
Sony Ericsson P1i
The phone certainly looks sexy enough, that I can say right away. The colour screen is bright and sharp, but using the keypad threw me initially. The keypad is unusual in that each key has two functions, for example: press the left side of the ‘1′ key and you get the letter ‘e’, press the right side and you get ‘r’. To get the number one you press the ALT key then 1. Some keys have two functions per side! Press ALT and ‘a’ and you get ‘(‘. Very confusing at first, but give it a few txt’s and it’s a great idea. You can also use handwriting recognition.
Incidentally, the text of this review is written on the P1i so it’s easily possible to write long text documents with its qwerty keyboard. And since this blog is created online you can guess that the P1i also gets you web on the go. The built in web browser is adequate and blocks pop ups and can remember your passwords if you wish. The email client is just like creating txt messages so is easy to use. You can connect to the web via wap, bluetooth even wifi, it has a nifty wifi scanner and setting it up is easy.
Video calls are possible with either of the phones cameras, yes it has two, one on the front and one on the back, i’ve not used the front camera much but the back camera is 3.2mp with auto focus.
Customising the phone is possible with themes and mp3 files. Installed themes is easy, you transfer the file to the phone, open the file and the phone will ask if you want to install the theme, easy as that.
Controlling menus can be done via the touch screen or by using the scroll wheel and back button. There’s also buttons on the right side for accessing the camera and web browser.
For the businessmen, you can view various pdf and office files as well as editing them with the built in office suite.
The P1i really is a cracking phone for txt freaks, budding photographers and businessmen, the qwerty keyboard is tricky at first, but excellent after some practice.
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