Back in March people were trying the EEEPC with slight progress - did
anyone get any joy there ?

I have a T23 which is a good Plan 9 laptop with Orinoco PCMCIA WiFi,
though I've not tried the AC97

They are under 200 euros on ebay with 512Mb & 80Gb

1024x768 screen

3 buttons and a nipple not a touchpad

no Windows key :)

These are concrete assets. I know at least one other laptop user (I
have an old Compac Presario 900, he has a newer Acer or some such)
that manages to trigger the touchpad without touching it. Very, very
annoying. As for the Windows key, on the limited keyboard real estate
of a laptop, it is a serious waste.

++L

I know, that's why I reported them. Chording with a touchpad is
something you could show at a circus.

I'm running low on three button mouses too :(

I have an LG A1 "Dual Express" notebook that I bought here in Riyadh a
few months ago.
It also has a PRPD (pseudorandom pointing device) and it has nearly
driven me to the point of spazzing out on several occasions. Other
than that it is a great litte laptop. Since it has an external USB
device I have not loaded plan9 on bare metal, I run it on VMWare
workstation 6.

Which brings me to a question:
Does anyone have trouble booting new installations of plan9 on
vmware6? I turn off hwaccel, load the os, and after the install
completes and the system reboots it just hangs. I am still using
systems built on Mahmoud's vmware image (for which I am indeed
grateful).

I would very much like to do clean installs on vmware, especially
since I am evangelizing plan9 as much as possible here in Saudi and
using it to teach my trainees about operating systems.

John

Delete the CD drive from the configuration.
Plan 9 and VMware disagree on how an empty
CD drive should behave.

Russ