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Linux - Laptop and Netbook Having a problem installing or configuring Linux on your laptop? Need help running Linux on your netbook? This forum is for you. This forum is for any topics relating to Linux and either traditional laptops or netbooks (such as the Asus EEE PC, Everex CloudBook or MSI Wind).

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Old 03-20-2009, 04:10 AM   #1
chcltd
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Angry acer aspire one - does not connect to network, terminal does not work


Netbook is one month old and worked well on wireless and G3 until 2 days ago.

Connection Manager shows but cannot connect to any network. Spoke to Acer who gave me a fix but I found I cannot get terminal to accept any commands - just gives a black blob where it should be displaying I belive "local host" or somthing like that.

Spoke to Acer again who said use the recovery disk, I have tried this using option 2 on a Vista PC and found that after loading the linpus kernel it froze.

Spoke to Acer again who said "3 year warrenty is for hardware - will send you a replacement recovery disc which will take 10 days". No we won't fix your machine "this is software not hardware". Wish I had ought a Dell.

Went online to http://www.linpus.com/download.php to get a recovery disc. Tried downloading both folders of files and loading onto USB stick but get told by Netbook that there is not a bootable table.

Any help with network, terminal or how to download the recovery disc.
 
Old 03-20-2009, 11:05 AM   #2
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The fix I saw for the networking issue has been posted in this forum several times and has to do with deleting some network settings file.. a search should locate it.

Here you go.
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Originally Posted by geopilot5200 View Post
Ok, I just found the solution in the forum for this problem.

rm -rf ~/.gconf/system/networking

I did this, re-started the PC and the internet stuff started to initialise. Naturally I had to re-do the wifi stuff, password, etc. but at least it's all working now.

Thanks.
Maybe that will resolve your current issue ?


Alternately check the links in my sig for Install guides for other OS's It will give you somethingto do while you wait for a disk from Acer.. and hey, you may find something you like better than Linpus Lite
 
  


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