[Coco] Drivewire

[Frank Pittel]

Sorry about the late reply but I got behind on email and am just catching up know. I spent a long time trying to like ubunto but couldn't do it and finally dumped it
after a hang of the OS (resulting from a problem with my wifi card hung the machine and forced a hard power cycle) corrupted the drive which meant losing everything on
it and forced a reinstall. At that point I went back to Fedora. Interestingly enough the wifi card worked fine while the people on the ubuntu forum blamed the driver!

Frank


On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 07:25:09PM -0600, Bill Nobel wrote:
> On a side note Aaron a question,, I am looking to setup a decent Linux server and deciding which flavour.  I have looked at Unbutu, Suse & Centos. But I think I might go Debian would this be the wisest choice for a good Server with DW4?  It seems to have the most packages available but I am not too informed.
> 
> Bill Nobel
> 
> > On Sep 26, 2014, at 3:21 PM, Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Chromebooks have the distinction of being the only type of modern computer
> > you can buy that won't run Drivewire (out of the box, at least).  That is
> > unlikely to change due to limitations of the platform.. Limitations which
> > are IMHO perfectly reasonable give enough the target customer, but still
> > make it impossible to do anything like drivewire.
> > 
> > However, you can install a full linux environment a couple different ways.
> > DW will work fine then.  I have used dw4 under linux on a couple different
> > chromebooks, no problem there.  You will need the rxtx libs for the linux
> > you use and most any JRE.
> > 
> > On Sep 26, 2014 4:38 PM, "Steve Ostrom" <smostrom7 at comcast.net> wrote:
> > 
> >> Just curious.  My Windows laptop that I used to run Drivewire 3 has
> >> broken. I just purchased a refurbished HP Chromebook 14 from Woot that uses
> >> the Chrome OS.  Can I get Drivewire to work with this Chromebook without
> >> having to add Linux to the OS?  Anyone have any thoughts along this path?
> >> I plan to repair my old Toshiba Windows laptop so Drivewire is available
> >> again, but thought that maybe the Chromebook might work.  How about the
> >> cable connections?  I think the Chromebook (still being delivered) has USB
> >> 2.0 and 3.0 ports, HDMI, Wi-Fi and is the 4G model so can use T-Mobile 4G
> >> phone service for data transfer.  It also has a multicard SD slot.  It's
> >> been awhile, but I think I needed a serial port dongle connected to my
> >> Toshiba for the Drivewire cable.
> >> 
> >> Has Drivewire every been converted to use a Coco serial to PC USB port, or
> >> is that not even feasible?
> >> 
> >> Thanks!
> >> 
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