Running from External Disk: trackpad question

["Kent Borg" <user=107@nabble.blu.org>]

 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. 


Thanks, 

-kb, the Kent who can't believe how big and heavy j-random Dells can be 
when compared to his dinky subnotebook. 


P.S.  Modern Windows people can't do this, can they?  Everytime they try 
to boot on a different machine MS thinks it is another pirating 
instance...?? 

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