Comment 39 for bug 567016

>Not really, can you explain what you saw? How long did the transfer take, or before it got interrupted?

Aside from seemingly random freezes in the progress bar for a split second at a time, what you see in the log at that time is what i saw. The transfer completed successfully.

>Possible side issue, but have you tried disabling screen blanking (xset s 0) and disabling all other power management which might kick in N minutes after you last touched the machine?

The first thing i did was removed the default power manager (because it has always been a problem for me on my previous laptop where it'd go critically low battery on plugin) and installed kpowermanager and turned off all the power save stuff except "Prefer power savings over performance" on battery (option not available when plugged in, but i have had the issue come up while plugged in too, so i doubt that option is the culprit). I did this because this new laptop is like the old laptop in that it has an ati card. My last laptop would have major issues with power save functions and that ati card not returning from a power save mode (actually, it ended up freezing the computer because i could not ssh in).

>Also, you could try removing the battery and running just on mains, so that you don't get any ACPI events like "battery fully charged". My Thinkpad X100e has strange lockups in these circumstances.

Considering these never happen during those times and i've often since restarted the driver after plugging it in or unplugging it, i doubt this is the case, however later on i will try it just to be sure.

>More likely, they care about their Windows customers but not those who replace Windows with Linux, since the product was never advertised as working with Linux in the first place. This makes buying a laptop for Linux a risky business.

Yeah, when i bought the thing i called my girlfriend and had her do some serious google work while i was looking at them. She said that she found this particular laptop as one they managed to get working using ndis or they solved the driver issues. Turns out the laptop walmart gave me merely looks like the one i picked out (not complaining, as i paid 500usd for what i found out to be a 700usd laptop). Consequently, this lead to the problem I'm having right now.

>If you want a laptop with a Unix-based O/S which works out of the box, probably your best bet is a Macbook - but you pay a large premium for that.

I prefer an x86 laptop (because i like to do assembly development).

>I notice Dell still have an Ubuntu page:
>http://www.dell.co.uk/ubuntu
>but AFAICS that now links to a list of laptops with Windows and no mention of Ubuntu.

Worse yet, my last laptop was a Dell. That thing was a horror story, because the hardware was more compatable with ubuntu than it was with the world. The lid specifically was obviously designed to physically break with time (which it did, hence why i opened it up in the first place), but i'd rather not delve into the details here, as that would be counter productive.

>Otherwise, if the wireless is a miniPCI card, you can replace it with one with better driver support.

More investment. I don't know what it is for sure, but it's on the inside, not the outside, and this laptop doesn't have any external ports except USB, HDMI, VGA, Ethernet (which surpsrisingly doesn't work) and your standard mic and headphone jacks.