So there’s this dock sitting around that my son uses on his windows laptop. I’ve never tried to use it with my own laptop when running winblows, but now it’s running Ubuntu, and I must test the waters. Can I make it work?
Well sure I can!
I started by plugging the laptop into the dock (or the dock into the laptop, whatever), which is a USB connection. To my surprise, the mouse and keyboard came alive immediately! However, the monitors stayed dark. So, to Google I went.
Long story short, I found that this dock supports “DisplayLink“, which apparently is a Synaptics thing. A little more digging and I homed in on a DisplayLink driver for Ubuntu. I have documented what I did on my new Ubuntu on a Laptop notepad, so I won’t repeat myself here. Suffice to say, however, that once I loaded the driver and did all the things™, the monitors fired up and the network is reachable via the USB tether to the dock! So incredibly sick!
So incredibly sick!
Now I have triple monitor goodness at my disposal, until my son kicks me off his dock to do work things™.
Pretty sweet!
loaded ubuntu on an old thinkpad I had laying around. Going pretty well except it doesn’t like my nas too well and I can’t figure out why. Doesn’t seem like the battery life is very good either? Not sure about that, maybe the battery is just shot.
Yeah I’m having the same issues at the moment; I have put zero cycles into it up til now but I will get to it eventually.
I’m going to be giving some attention to the automount functionality and if I can make it work. I’ll keep you up to date on my progress.
My battery is doing okay. It’s an old laptop but I get a couple hours out of it, same as on Windows.
probably my imagination on that then
Plug-n-pray, Windoze will save the day.
Whatchoo talkin’ ’bout, Willis?
You’re a good guy Mikey.