HP ION based netbook Mini 311

saif — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 01:49:30 +0000

HP announced this Month release of their New HP Mini 311 Netbook. With release of HP Ion based Mini 311 netbooks HP become the first Vendor to release netbook which uses Nvidia’s ION platform.If you want to check out NVIDIA ION based netbook you need to buy one from HP site.

HP ION based Mini netbook will cost $399 and is available for sale on HP web site.The ION base netbook uses platform which is based on GeForce 9400M GPU and should give the small sized netbook a big performance boost like Gaming desktop.

The HP Mini 311 netbook comes with Windows XP SP3 Home Edition ,for price tag of $399 HP Mini 311 netbook configuration comes with:

11.6-inch display and 1080p HD video playback.
Built-in VGA and HDMI ports for connecting to an external monitor or HDTV connectivity.
Intel(R) Atom(TM) Processor N270 (1.60GHz, 512KB L2, 533Mhz FSB)
1 GB Memory
160 GB hard drive

Ford additional add-ons you need to pay for a white chassis ($20), Atom N280 ($25), Bluetooth ($25), 802.11n ($25) and integrated WWAN ($125), but wait the 1,366 x 768 resolution display comes standard on NVIDIA’s ION based HP 311 Mini Netbook

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How i fixed Bridged networking to work in VMware workstation 6 on Windows Vista

saif — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:07:32 +0000

Bridged networking doesn’t work but NAT works fine in VMware workstatrion 6 on Windows Vista ?

On my Windows Vista HP Pavilion desktop i decided to upgrade VMware workstation from version 5.5 to version 6.

I managed to get this part working but soon I noticed my guest virtual machines running RHEL5 and fedora 9 lost network connections. I couldn’t get network to work in RHEL 5 and Fedora 9 guest, they were working fine in VMware workstation 5.5. My Windows vista desktop has two network/Ethernet card – one is NVIDIA nForce networking controller and second network card is HP 802.11b/g Wireless network card. I am using 802.11b/g wireless card as primary network card on my Windows vista desktop. I thought there is some driver issues with VMware workstation 6 and Windows vista for wireless network card. For testing I tried changing network connection from Bridged to NAT, which is used to share the host’s IP address and to my surprise network connection worked fine.

Troubleshooting Bridged networking in VMware workstation 6 on Windows Vista

To solve this puzzle where my network connection wouldn’t work in Bridged mode but they worked fine in NAT mode on my Windows vista desktop I started looking to VMware workstation 6 networking options. After spending some time i looked into virtual network settings. First thing I noted on VMware workstation 6 that second tab which is for Atomic Bridging in virtual network settings was check off. I checked it as on and selected HP 802.11b/g wireless Network Adapter as the primary network card.

Secondly i changed VMnet0 network interface in Host Virtual Network Mapping from NVIDIA nForce networking controller to HP 802.11b/g wireless Network Adapter from pull down menu. This was obvious that VMware workstation 6 installed picked NVIDIA nForce network adapter as primary VMware host network card.