Compaq Mini 110 - part 3

So far the little netbook has been ambling along nicely, improving with every little step of risks that I take in tinkering with it,

• Sleep is now functioning. The satisfaction of closing the lid and have the thing shut down properly is ...unsettling.


• Ethernet and WLAN are still not working. So far the theories out there have stretched from hardware oddness and particular distributions of OS X being flawed in one way or another. I've resorted to using a USB dongle in the meantime, so nyeh to that.

It served me well during my stay in Helsinki, so I guess that my initial irritations concerning the little tike are becoming invalid.

Compaq Mini 110 woes

Gah! Apparently ethernet is going to be a problem.

In short, the ethernet chipset is not (yet?) supported while the wireless chipset's stellar support is being marred by the fact that the former isn't working. That's a problem to say the least.

There's a free mini pci slot somewhere in that thing, so I suppose adding a card and rewiring the antenna is one thing to consider. However, the mini is notorious for blacklisting "unsupported" cards. Gah...

Busybodies, flies not being on me

I've been beyond negligent with the blagging experience for some months now. Fact is, I'm busy. Trainings, seminars, a webhosting apocalypse and exciting changes at work... you name it.

I've been jarring up on some things: the Hackintosh, why I wasn't at Breakpoint (or any demo party outside Evoke and Outline for that matter), my conclusion as to how serious we can take the professional underpinnings of HTML5 and why I'm seriously going to be buying a handheld device from Apple.

I'm sure there's at least two people who remotely care.

Hackintosh

Marvel at the pristine beauty of my latest pet project:



While it may look like a clown car accident for computer parts, it's actually a computer, cobbled together from a few leftover parts and two new ones. And it runs Mac OS X like a dream.

I'll yammer on about it in the near future. It's pretty neat.