tech support on line

This is one of the few no-nag (to start with) posts.

You have UBUNTU 9.04 installed on a Toshiba A300-20c or something like that. Mine worked like a charm placing the IDE disk of my HP laptop to an external IDE2USB box. I clicked something twice to have the Atheros wifi worked, but I believe it was something I had disabled from the HP days of the disk. It boots up nicely, keys to dim the display, sensors for the cpu temperature BUT the bluetooth.
I scanned a zillion of forums, and people discussing omnibook patch etc etc.

Its muck more simple than that. I read someplace about a guy that had his bluetooth running after rebooting from dual boot XP. I shutdown and unplugged the usb linux boot disk. Booted into vista. Configured bluetooth to be active. Rebooted, plugged the disk and ... voila .. the BT is running.

SHUTed down completely, powered up into ubuntu and BT was again active. NO PATCHES. free!

stop reading cause from here on I start nagging.
I am a newbie - relatively - but I install ubundus daily, and all work. Google earth has some problems with some vga's but thats not linux/ubuntu problem. Thats GOOGLES problem, the same with Sketchup. It totally kills to a cpu halt and weird screen looks, absolutely decent machines. And people complain for the machine not the CMM level zero s/w design. Google is getting very sloppy, and thats gonna cost.
People complain that linux does not work cause some h/w does not plug and play on the spot. To my experience with h/w there is always a workaround if you can read binary or count in octal. It works, not for youuuu maybe, but it works for the rest of us and the benefit that we get from open source s/w functionality is tremendous. If U cant make it work, call one of us. We gotta make a living and not everyone is a hacker /cracker /guru /full fledged techie or master of the universe. GET THAT USER?

I said it before and keep on saying for over 25 years now : 'Keyboard Familiarity Does Not Constitute Computer Literacy', need bit more than that.. Ooh also 'There is no substitute for experience'. thats a good one too! 5-10 years is not enough. I started expressing my self, after the 20th year. I speak baudot, ebcdic, and ascii


thank you