Well, I got my cr-48 a couple of months ago. I was extremely surprised to get one mostly because I'd forgotten that I even signed up for it.
So the night I got it was at the end of a really crappy day. I came home and there was a box on the front porch. I looked at my girlfriend and asked if she'd accidentally ordered something on eBay again and carried the mystery box inside.
I first checked the box for some ticking noises and then decided that it was safe to open it. I started opening it and the first thought in my head was "Who the hell is sending me a computer?" then i saw the little sheet that came with it and almost had a cow. Needless to say I was pretty happy :-)

So I got to play with it for about 20 minutes before I went to bed. Got up the next morning like a kid on Christmas morning and ran into the room to play with it. It worked great....for about 30 minutes. It refused to see any network. So I restarted it. It refused to do anything.
I was kinda disappointed at this point.
So fast forward a couple of months and I finally decided to get into it and see if I could do something about it.
After doing some digging around in developer mode and grepping my way through the dmesg I found out that the wifi card was refusing to initialize.

Ater finding a couple of teardown examples I did some eBay hunting for the right wifi card.
$13.68 and a new wifi card was on it's way from China. Swapped it out and happiness resulted. :-D

I've been putting it through it's paces. Found some online resources to do website coding and image editing and discovered that I could live on it extremely comfortably.
Now if I can just figure out how to disable the trackpad...

Anyway, I was searching around for info and stumbled on this site. I was very happy after reading through a bunch of posts and finding not only useful information but friendly people too.

Ok, now that I've typed way more than I meant to...HI! lol

Welcome to the site! Glad to see you give Chrome OS another chance. Though, I personally would have just sent it back to Google for a replacement (which I had to do, keyboard quit working). Anyways, you got it resolved either way. Cheers.

Hello gasp and welcome to the Chrome OS site!
What a story there. Your contribution toward CR-48 with new wifi card is absolutely awesome for me. Although you got it for free but I think at least you know that it's not just a piece of junk. I really hope you can send any bugs to Google too as they really want them to fix anything wrong before official launching this June.
This site provide you more than enough about Google's products especially and I'm glad that you are very happy to join us.

p/s: you should feel very lucky to have a CR-48..

hello, welcome to the site, it's good to meet you here.
i am newbie too.




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