Xplora e16

[kejot]

anyone help with the drivers for a xplora e16 laptop ( clevo w76k/w761k), tried the clevo site but model not listed.

anyone got a driver cd i can beg/borrow/steal/buy??

thanks in advance

[henz]

Hi,

The drivers are in fact listed on the Clevo site, their just not immidiately noticable. Sadly their webpage doesn't allow direct links but if you go here: http://www.clevo.com.tw/en/e-services/Download.asp and click on M74xK/W76xK you should find them there :)

Hope this helps!

[kejot]

thanks for that :D

god knows how many times i looked, but never thought of looking under the 'M' section !!!!!

now for some more nice slow downloads

[mrgoose]

@ Kejot. Not sure if this helps you at all & please forgive me if you know this stuff already. The thing is that if you install the latest Ubuntu (http://www.ubuntu.com/download) (v9.10), then almost everything on the E16 works out of the box. And it all installs in less than 20 mins.

The only exception is the wireless network. However this is relatively easily sorted because Realtek has produced a native Linux driver that you can get directly here:-


64-Bit version: http://launchpadlibrarian.net/340904...9_64bit.tar.gz (http://launchpadlibrarian.net/34090404/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009_64bit.tar.gz)
32-Bit version: http://launchpadlibrarian.net/339279...12.2009.tar.gz (http://launchpadlibrarian.net/33927923/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009.tar.gz)

Follow the instructions in the first post here to install it:-
(http://forum.novatech.co.uk/showthread.php?t=15068)

http://forum.novatech.co.uk/showthread.php?t=15068
(skip the part about kernels and wired networking because the new 'Bunty ships with the latest kernel anyway)

FWIW, I just set one up for my mum. She is well-chuffed at having a stable, easy-to-use lappy, including all software at under three hundred quid all-in!

HTH. G.

[kejot]

hi

thanks for the info, had already seen these posts, just the laptop owner wanted xp put back on it, but couldnt find the drivers disk