Re: Running from External Disk: trackpad question

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

 On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 10:01 -0400, Daniel Feenberg wrote: 
> 
> On Tue, 1 Jul 2008, 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. 
> 
> I am not very familiar with Ubuntu, but our experience with Fedora has 
> always been that hardware recognition was done durning the boot process,