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L'enfer, c'est le laptop repair under warranty

Well, crap. It arrived. It’s beautiful. It’s broken.

All the complicated stuff works, but plain old wired Ethernet doesn’t. Given that the wireless does work — Edgy Eft Knot 2’s installer gets it right straight off — it’s tempting to ignore the problem. I have wifi at work; I have wifi at home; in how many settings will I have an Ethernet jack and no wifi?

But, dammitall, a wired connection is just too important a contingency. I’m off to warranty hell.

Posted by Zed on September 7, 2006 8:06 AM |

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Oh, darnit! What a bummer.

My refurbished P1510D just arrived yesterday -- so far, so good.

I'm glad to see that Edgy will have support for the wireless right out of the box. I'm about to do all of the manual compiling and installing junk with Dapper. Hmmm ... maybe I should just give Edgy a try.

Hope you speedily get a replacement! It really is a drool-worthy machine.

Posted by: argotnaut [TypeKey Profile Page] | September 9, 2006 9:39 PM

Thanks for the sympathy.

After all my wrestling with getting WPA working under Dapper on a desktop box, Edgy's inclusion of the latest ndiswrapper and madwifi-ng sold me on trying it first. (Didn't try to get WPA working in the short time I had the P1510D.)

(It didn't phase me that Edgy's still alpha -- I probably won't settle down in screwing around with the OS till around its release, anyway.)

Posted by: Zed [TypeKey Profile Page] | September 11, 2006 12:07 PM

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