Re: Running from External Disk: trackpad question

["Jarod Wilson" <user=74@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 09:35 -0400, Kent Borg wrote: 
> So my trusty notebook needs service and I need to survive while it takes 
> a trip to Japan and back (a consequence of buying a Japanese model, at 
> least it is still under warranty). 
> 
> While it is gone I am using an external USB disk with everything on it, 
> I can plug it into j-random PC, talk the bios into booting from it, and 
> I am off to the races.  Mostly. 
> 
> I am running Ubuntu 8.04.  How do I get support for hardware that wasn't 
> present when I did the install?  Specifically, it is the trackpads in 
> two different laptops that are being ignored.