http://luisrei.com/2006/03/24/new-toys-part-i-sony-vaio-fe11s/ Episode VI: Return of The Blog Mon, 22 Mar 2010 02:32:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://luisrei.com/2006/03/24/new-toys-part-i-sony-vaio-fe11s/comment-page-1/#comment-8 Rei - Through The Wire » Blog Archive » Sony Vaio FE11S Linux (update) Tue, 08 Aug 2006 19:39:58 +0000 http://lrei.wordpress.com/2006/03/24/new-toys-part-i-sony-vaio-fe11s/#comment-8 [...] When I made my first  post about my new latptop, there were still two missing  key hardware drivers  - the nividia driver for the  Nvidia GeForce  Go 7400 and the wireless driver which I didn’t bother to compile by hand (and therefore didn’t mention). I’m happy  to report that both  the graphic card and the wireless driver now work out-of-the-box in ubuntu 6.06 after updating the kernel to the latest version. The graphic card has been working for quite a while (I simply forgot to mention it) - nvidia delivered the drivers on the promised date. The built-in webcam (which I didn’t mention because I had never tried to use) doesn’t work under linux. I don’t think the built-in bluetooth works either though I can’t be sure until I bother to try to use it. [...] [...] When I made my first  post about my new latptop, there were still two missing  key hardware drivers  – the nividia driver for the  Nvidia GeForce  Go 7400 and the wireless driver which I didn’t bother to compile by hand (and therefore didn’t mention). I’m happy  to report that both  the graphic card and the wireless driver now work out-of-the-box in ubuntu 6.06 after updating the kernel to the latest version. The graphic card has been working for quite a while (I simply forgot to mention it) – nvidia delivered the drivers on the promised date. The built-in webcam (which I didn’t mention because I had never tried to use) doesn’t work under linux. I don’t think the built-in bluetooth works either though I can’t be sure until I bother to try to use it. [...]

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