Re: Running from External Disk: trackpad question

["Daniel Feenberg" <user=12@nabble.blu.org>]

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.