Re: [gNewSense-users] Help on working with gNewSense

[Tor at Shared Genius]

Lykourgos Moustopoulos wrote:
> Hallo
>
> I have very recently  got a Mini HP2140  with:
>
> Broadcom Corporation BCM4322 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller (rev 01)
> Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Device 436c (rev 10)

Broadcom cards are not supported by free software, although you can see 
below.
> I installed Ubuntu 9.04 Netbook remix, just to experiment with linux, 
> which works fine for my purposes:
>
> 1) Easy to use
> 2) Wireless access to Internet OK
> 3) Wireless USB 3G Modem (ZTE MF636) using wvdial OK , after doing some 
> modification as described in page:
> http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1005910.html
>
> After some time I came across gNewSense which triggered my curiosity, 
> therefore I dowloaded gNewSense 2.2  and played from live CD (no 
> installation as I want to experiment first).
>
> My questions:
>
> 1) Can I install gNewSense in my harddisk without touching the Ubuntu 
> 9.04 (by using some partition?)

Absolutely.  Just make a partition for it.  I like a grub partition for 
more than two installations, but this is not essential.

> 2) Can I get my wireless running ( it is not running from liver CD)

Perhaps.  There is a reverse engeneered firmware which may work, 
available at http://www.ing.unibs.it/openfwwf/ .  I haven't tried it 
myself, although I do have a couple of Broadcom cards around.

> 3) Any idea whether USB 3G modem could work in a similar way?

Maybe someone else on the list will have an idea.

Tor

> Any advise welcome
>
> Thanks in advance
> Lykourgos