[Wylug-discuss] Laptops again

[Roger Greenwood]

Hi All,

Thanks for the comments. To update you, I got 2 machines (Lenovo Z570), 
one for me and one for my son. No problem with the default install of 
ubuntu from an existing USB stick, and then upgrade to 11.10, except my 
usual problem of no wireless. Why is this such a pain every time for me?!!!
Long story short, onboard wireless is still no go, but USB dongle works 
fine, as does "3" phone dongle, and of course wired networking. The 
network signal can be seen, but won't connect. Had to unload the acer 
kernel modules first to even get this far - seems like a common problem.

Currently using XFCE desktop for reasons discussed at length in another 
thread - can't get on with unity yet, but I will keep trying it as it is 
so shiny :)

Last I looked they still had a few machines left, but the price has gone 
up a bit (CCL). If anyone is interested I can p