Re: Issues installing on a Dell Inspiron Mini 1018

[Chih-Wei Huang]

You may try to replace the kernel in your 4.0-RC2 build with
the kernel and drivers (/system/lib/modules) in 4.2 build.
It may work.
Or you can try another 4.0-RC2 iso that has Broadcom driver.
(e.g., tx2500)


2013/4/21 Brianna Belliveau <brinn...@gmail.com>:
> Hello everyone!
>
> I'm new to this whole Android on a computer thing, but I love Android on my
> phone and I have an old netbook (Dell Inspiron Mini 1018) that really
> disagrees with Windows (it runs so slowly as to be unusable).
>
> First I used GParted and formatted the hard drive to ext3 on the single
> partition, as I have no desire to dual-boot.
>
> I tried the developer 4.2 build from February and while the wifi worked
> perfectly with my Broadcom wireless adaptor, I can't install any apps
> without them launching to a black screen and giving me a non-responding
> message.
>
> Then I reformatted to ext3 again and tried the 4.0 RC2 build to see if I
> could get apps to work and the wifi doesn't register at all, so I couldn't
> try to get apps installed.
>
> Does anyone have a build that they know would work with this computer? I'm
> not looking for anything flashy, I literally only want this computer for
> typing (I'm working on a book so a basic notepad won't cut it) and some
> light internet usage. A bonus would be if I can get Dropbox working. I tried
> various Linux builds for this purpose but often ran into the same issues
> with wireless, and if I didn't, I found installing programs to be incredibly
> unintuitive.
>
> I'm not super tech-saavy or I'd try to figure out how to put a driver in for
> that wireless adaptor myself. Googling for this kind of information isn't
> yielding too much helpful info, and I have been trying for hours.
>
> Thanks so much in advance to anyone that could lend me a hand! :)
>
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