Yesterday, my buddy Andrew and I went to the LVLUG meeting and one of the guys there went to town on my UX280p and installed Beryl. This made me want to go home and try it out on our other systems.
It was pretty F***ing Painless Read the complete Post.
I am a “I just want it to work” kind of guy. I have two laptops with built-in Cingular WWAN, I was paying the $59 per month for each of them. I also had a Cingular 8125 with an unlimited data plan. Well, I figured hell, I might as well get a UMTS/HSPDA capable phone and cancel my WWAN since it doesn’t work under Linux and use the phone’s internet.
I went out and got a Treo 750 (I love this phone BTW). I canceled my data plans and at the time was still using windows and found that the bluetooth tethering just ROCKED! Very fast and easy to use and it was almost seamless connectivity.
As some of you know, I am a Sony freak. I also have been working on switching from Windows to Linux. The following is how I got Ubuntu working on my Laptops and what works and what doesnt.
Let’s start with my laptops, I have 3 main laptops they are all Sony Vaio’s with the following model numbers:
UX280P
Ok. I have 3 main laptops I use. I have my Big Guy (Sony Vaio AR290G) slightly modified with 4gig of ram and 2x 200gig SATA drives. I have my travel one (Sony Vaio SZ430N) and my little guy (Sony Vaio UX280P). My goal, since I have been migrating off of windows, was to get a full working copy of Linux on them that would work for me in day to day tasks (plus allow me some leisure time by playing the games I like to play). My second goal was to get as much of the hardware on these laptops functioning properly under linux.
Since we switched from windows to CentOS/Red Hat on our server side, I decided to try Fedora or CentOS as my desktop. Fedora and CentOS installed fine on all of the machines. I used several sources and got wireless working and the camera functioned intermittently. None of the Sony proprietary buttons worked. The nVidia drivers had issues on both the AR and SZ. Oddly enough, I installed Fedora Core 6 on the UX and got almost everything working flawlessly.
Wow, I moved my hosting server from one of my windows servers to my new server running linux and ensim.
It seems everything went smooth. We’ll see how this goes for a few days. I used phpMyAdmn for the first time. I am not sure I have all the permissions set properly on these directories but I’ll keep working on it.
Now to try to Upgrade. LOL
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