[mdlug-newbie] Linux Mint XFCE & MSI Wind

[Brandon Fotiu]

Hello everyone,

So I went over to Micro Center yesterday and bought myself an MSI Wind
Laptop (the MSi U100).  For those that aren't familiar it's one of the new
'netbook' style laptops.  Intel Atom 1.6Ghz CPU, 2Gb RAM (I upgraded it from
1), 120GB harddrive, Bluetooth, wireless b/g, etc etc.

The only thing about it is, since it's a netbook, it doesn't have an optical
drive.  The harddrive comes from the factory with two partitions on it, one
for boot and one for storage.  When I booted it for the first time it
installed Windows XP Home edition and everything ran smoothly.  I connected
to my wireless network, installed Firefox and just as I was trying out
hulu.com to check performance the battery ran flat and it lost power.  With
other laptops I've had this happen and, while I know it's not a good thing
to do, they have all started back up.

Instead, when it tried to boot into XP again (from AC power) it hung
endlessly.  I did a safe mode boot and it kept getting to mup.sys and then
doing nothing (for at least 15 minutes).  It reminded me a lot of when I
switched my main box over to Mint, there were no other options other than a
complete reinstall or an iffy scandisk.  I learned that MS doesn't bundle
their Recovery Console by default in XP Home during this process too.  So
after spending a few hours reading about BartPE and how to bundle the XP
Server 2003 ramdisk file into a vanilla XP Home distro I got fed up and
decided to get Mint running instead.

As of about an hour ago I've gotten the XFCE community edition of Linux Mint
5 Elyssa running on the Wind.  I'm having a couple problems though.  The
biggest is that ACPI doesn't work by default.  I can't boot with it enabled
so I've resorted to adding "ACPI=off" to the Mint startup command.  The
other is that I'm not totally sure how to get wireless working.  I've heard
there is a wrapper for the Windows driver but it only works on some
hardware?

Anyway, it's up and running and I'm doing an update right now (using the
wired ethernet connection) but if anyone can tell me about ACPI or wireless
I would really appreciate it.

Thanks,

Brandon
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