3D and WPA
A few months ago I blogged early thoughts on my HP Mini-note 2133 and noted a couple of issues. I finally got compiz running. Horrah! And WPA is now much more solid. The big issue was There are a couple of problems with the Laptop Testing Team’s wiki entry. Until I get approval to update the wiki this is what I found:
- In /usr/bin/compiz adjust the WHITELIST to include via but do not remove the fglrx entry – add via to the WHITELIST. Then compiz works
- Create /etc/default/wpasupplicant but the only line in it should ENABLE WPA – seems obvious but, well, I feel foolish. So your /etc/default/wpasupplicant file should contain ENABLED=1
The P1i and mobile internet
GPRS was working via bluetooth. Then it wasn’t. Then it was again. And yesterday it wasn’t. However sticking a cable in the side does work – and helps preserve a little bit of battery life which is almost as bad on the P1i as the mini-note. the P1i makes an effective usb 3g modem. This page helps – the important bit is the initialization string (modified for vodafone): AT+CGDCONT=1,”IP”,”vfinternet.com” and the phone number – the lovely people from vodafone reckon *99# works fine in AU; and it does on the Mac Book Pro; but *99***1# seems to work with Ubuntu. Can’t for the life of me think why that should be the case. The rest was cleanly set up by wvdialconf.