Motherboards for new Ubuntu install

Motherboards for new Ubuntu install

E.S. Rosenberg esr+linux-il at g.jct.ac.il
Thu Dec 27 11:04:50 IST 2012


2012/12/27 Rami Rosen <rosenrami at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
> About four years ago I bought a laptop in one of the stores mentioned
> in the thread. It turned out that it came with a different wireless
> nic than that which appeared in the official
> manufacturer link! It came with a wireless nic without 80211n support.
> And it was not a link to a wrong model. Eventually it turned out that
> it was a rare error from the manufacturer (They said that the same
> model name has different ingredients for the middle east and for
> Europe). And this manufacturer is a big, well known and veteran
> company.Since this was important to me at that time, I asked to
> replace it, but the store did not want to negotiate this
> with the supplier, so I had to negotiate it by myself.
>
> So keep in mind that this kind of things also can happen!
A bit off topic but: don't the new laws on product return protect you
these days?
>
> regards,
> Rami Rosen
> http://ramirose.wix.com/ramirosen
>
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 9:00 AM, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 1:29 AM, E.S. Rosenberg
>> <esr+linux-il at g.jct.ac.il> wrote:
>>> Note that that is a meta-package that installs the kernel specific
>>> package, so you'll need to download at least the kernel specific one
>>> and the meta package is good to make sure that after a kernel upgrade
>>> you still have the drivers.
>>> Regards,
>>> Eliyahu - אליהו
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Dotan Cohen
>>
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>>
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