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Icaros on Dell Latitude C840
« on: October 08, 2012, 03:56:38 AM »
Picked this old laptop at a garage sale just so I could play around with Icaros and see what all the shouting was about.

Have to say, so far, I'm quite impressed.  Installed real easily.  Have to default to the VESA display setting but overall not too bad.

I had picked up an Intel internal wireless card that doesn't seem to be supported.  : (

However, just happened to have a Netgear WG111v3 laying around (don't ask!) and after reading the wireless readme file, installed it and voila' here I am!

Out of curiosity, anyone know if a driver for an Intel WM3822008G is in the works?  Sure would be better if the wireless adapter was on the inside instead of sticking out the back!

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Re: Icaros on Dell Latitude C840
« Reply #1 on: October 08, 2012, 10:07:11 AM »
Quote from: curtis;710742
Picked this old laptop at a garage sale just so I could play around with Icaros and see what all the shouting was about.

Have to say, so far, I'm quite impressed.  Installed real easily.  Have to default to the VESA display setting but overall not too bad.

I had picked up an Intel internal wireless card that doesn't seem to be supported.  : (

However, just happened to have a Netgear WG111v3 laying around (don't ask!) and after reading the wireless readme file, installed it and voila' here I am!

Out of curiosity, anyone know if a driver for an Intel WM3822008G is in the works?  Sure would be better if the wireless adapter was on the inside instead of sticking out the back!

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IIRC only one specific Chipset from Atheros is supported. It might be possible to replace your Wireless Hardware (min PCI) inside your Notebook with a supported one.
 

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Re: Icaros on Dell Latitude C840
« Reply #2 on: October 09, 2012, 12:39:43 AM »
Yeah, I noticed wireless isn't exactly high on the list of compatibility but may try one out if I can find one on fleabay.
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Re: Icaros on Dell Latitude C840
« Reply #3 on: October 09, 2012, 12:51:00 AM »
Vesa is okay but slow, its still nice that you can throw aros on any laptop or pc and at least it works. Weather or not you have sound and networking is usually another problem.

On graphics though...

On a desktop with accellerated graphics though, you really see the speed and snappiness of it. Its pretty amazing to me still, even on low spec main cpu... if you have a good video card, it runs nicely.

Congrats on getting it working with your find.