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£99 Netbook from Elonex- sounds familiar?

Tuesday, January 6th, 2009

Came across this article on the Telegraph’s website.

According to this, Elonex have got a new netbook launch planned in the near future targetted at female shoppers of M&S and Next.

The article refers to the ‘Elonex Websurfer’ – googling this turns up this at scan.co.uk, which appears to very similar to a One T.

It’ll be very interesting to see the new netbook – especially how similar the hardware and software of the Elonex One and One T is.  I’m also quite intruiged about the article’s refernce to remote access to home/work PC’s.

If anyone knows or hears more, please post a comment.

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Elonex One T or CnM Minibook for Christmas – Welcome to the unofficial user community!

Friday, December 26th, 2008

Thought it would be worthwhile putting up a post for the benefit of those who have got a new Elonex One T or CnM Minibook for Christmas and are looking for help.

Owing to the CPU chip used in these laptops, Linux distributions and software designed for the more ‘normal’ X86-based processors will not work, however, help is at hand…

In addition to the manufacturers websites, you might like to have a look at the following:

http://www.littlelinuxlaptop.com – This describes itself as the “ultimate unofficial free software and modding resource site” for these laptops. Have a look here if you are after more software, or want to get deeper into the Linux operating system. There is also a fair bit of other useful background information regarding the laptops on here, and useful links to other resources.

If you’ve just got the laptop out of the box, performing a software update using the inbuilt software updater is a good idea. This resolves a few glitches including some issues with the wireless function. It may be necessary to connect directly to your router using a cable to do this first time.

Other specific help you might be looking for:

Games: In addition to the games that can be directly installed to the laptop, users have found that you can play flash games (see this forum post), which opens up massive possibilites for widening the scope of use for these laptops, such as running flash presentations from other software like Openoffice.org. Alternatively, Firefox game add-ons can be installed (see this forum post), as the in-built browser ‘Bon-Echo’ is related to an older version of Firefox.

YouTube: Try this from the CnM site

The Small Linux Laptop Forum is an unofficial community forum for users of Elonex One / One T, CnM Minibook and other related mini laptops. Much useful information and problem-solving can be found here.

If you are trying to do something, have a search of the forum – quite often the problem you are encountering has been solved by someone else before. If you can’t find anything, submit a well structured post giving as much information as you can about the problem, including things you have tried already. They are a friendly and helpful bunch. Try and return the favour at some point by helping someone else – or if you work out the problem for yourself, post a ‘How-To’ within the relevant board.

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Connecting to internet

Friday, October 31st, 2008

Although we’ve had the laptop for quite a while now, I’ve not yet connected to the internet.  From reading comments on this blog and posts on the smalllinuxlaptop forum I was aware that connecting wirelessly was not always straightforward.  I’d previously had a quick go at trying to connect to the wireless network with the router settings left alone, adding the MAC address given on the back of the laptop to the trusted stations list, but this did not work.

I have a netgear wireless router, with SSID hidden, encryption WPA-PSK2 and wireless access station control on (ie limit access to router by MAC address of device).  I followed the following steps:

  1. Connect One T to router using ethernet cable, allow auto-detection and then carry out system update (which included an update for the wireless software).
  2. Using another computer that can connect to the router settings page, temporarily disable security settings on router so that SSID visibile, no encryption and no access control.
  3. Using the wireless conection tool on the OneT, find and connect to the router.  Check connection has been made correctly (try out a page in Bon Echo).
  4. Using another computer that can connect to the router settings page, find out the MAC address of the connected OneT.  This may have been where I went wrong last time – the MAC address on the back of the laptop was not the wireless MAC address.  Add the correct MAC address to the Trusted Wireless Stations list.
  5. Disconnect the OneT from the router.
  6. Restore the security settings of the router using the other computer.
  7. Using the wireless conection tool on the OneT, find and connect to the router, entering the settings as required (this will include the network SSID if this is hidden – my One T+ showed the network in the wireless connection tool, but without a name, so I just entered this on the next dialogue box).
  8. Connect to the network, then test out a page.
  9. This worked first time around, but when I tried it later it would not connect until I set the SSID to visible on the router again – then it connected fine.  I’m unhappy about leaving the SSID visible, so I shall be manually altering this each time I connect the One T to the router (which is not likely to be often, so not really an issue to me).

Obviously, this will vary from system to system but it worked for me.  You also have to be comfortable with altering your router settings and the potential risk of leaving the security settings open for a period of time whilst you obtain the OneT’s wireless adapter MAC address.

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