The typical machine owner is accustomed to having the laptop computer operate at the top of it's capacity. It is always important to maintain pretty much all the drivers (Motion Computing LE1600 notably) updated, to be able to maintain the computer system usability, and steer clear of different complications. And hindrances which will be a consequence of a damaged driver.
SOLVED But I want to leave a more user friendly tutorial/fix guide to get all functions to work(except finger scanner). All of the guides online a very vague so I'm making this for future reference so that another soul wont have to go there days of trying to find a fix. Finally after 3 1/2 days of trying to find a fix I got the WIFI, sound, buttons, and Rotation functions to work. First lets start with the Wifi which is pretty easy to install but slightly complicated if you don't know you're way around you computer. Restoring WIFI 1.
Go to this link and download the drivers. Extract and and run the.exe file, the go to the 32 folder and copy the folder's address. Open the 32 folder, open netathr.inf file add this line 'w/o quotes.'
'%ATHR.DeviceDesc.1042% = ATHRDEVOS611042.ndi, PCI VEN168C&DEV0013&SUBSYS7005168C ' under the section marked, make sure you add it under under Legacy HW Entries, you may need to do some spacing to make it fit correctly.;; OS 6.1 Manufacturer section; Atheros.NTX86.6.1; DisplayName Section DeviceID; - - -;legacy HW Entries (So you would add the line here) 2. Go to device manager. Then go to Control Panel Hardware and Sounds Device Manager - Find the Driver named 'Ethernet Controller' under 'Other Devices' - Click Update Drive, then choose 'Browse my computer for driver software' - paste the address location of the folder named '32' press next and the Wifi should install and running in minutes. Restoring Sound 1. Go to the motion site for driver, I'll post the link. Choose LE1600 and XP as the OS.
Download ' and install and your sound is working in moments. Restoring BlueTooth On the Same link i provide for the Sound, this time choose the LE1700 and choose Windows 7 as the OS, download the dashboard and install it, reboot and you're good.
Restoring Rotation and Graphic drivers. On the same website provide before this time choose LE1600 and choose Vista as the OS. Download ' Now, go back to device manager 'Control Panel Hardware and Sounds Device Manager' and this time choose the driver called 'Graphic' choose update driver, and choose 'Browse my computer for driver software'. Find the location of the driver you've downloaded and you're good. Thanks for the guide. I've had to reinstall XP/Win7 quite a few times on the LE1600 and LE1700 and found that the easiest way is to install the button drivers, then the dashboard before anything else. That will get software switches for the wifi and bluetooth going.
Then the rest should install without a hitch. Shouldn't have to edit the registry at all - or at least I've never had to. One thing to note, you apparently have the Atheros wifi card in yours - others may not. Its either that or the Intel card in it so if someone has the Intel wifi card, the Atheros drivers won't work for them.
Usually, win7 will install the correct wifi drivers (in my experience) but not until the button drivers and dashboard have been installed.
I have an old Motion Computing tablet (LE1600 max'd out, with 2 gigs ram, and SSD but single core Pentium M 1.5ghz). It's currently running Win7, but it ain't happy with that and I feel there are better OSes out there for it. I was thinking a debian-based distor (mainly because that's what I'm familiar with) but what I wanted was a lightweight DE that is stylus friendly, and since it's a slate PC, something that would pop up automatically with a virtual keyboard. My past experience with.nixes have been with the default DE, so asking for a little help with this. I would check out the KDE / Plasma 5 Desktop Environment, or else a recent version of Kubuntu (like 16.04) that includes it. For a few years now, KDE has been working on various convergence projects that offer a 'mobile' or 'tablet' workspace for the desktop.
I'm not sure what the current state of those projects are, but they are supposed to be baked into Plasma- as in, when you install KDE and log into the desktop, you should be able to pick a 'Tablet' activity layout or workspace somewhere in the desktop properties. In general though, I have found that the regular KDE desktop can be made pretty tablet-friendly via the use of Plasma widgets. Another option is to choose a lightweight desktop environment like LXDE, and then increase the font and icon sizes. It may look a little hacked though. Finding a 'lightweight' distro that works can be tricky, because minimalist distributions are more likely to require manual tweaks and package installs to get any special hardware working. If you are more comfortable working with Ubuntu / Debian, it may be worthwhile to try an install, and then select to install your desktop packages of choice and nothing else.
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(I think the kde package is called kde-plasma-desktop ). That should trim some of the 'fat' out of the default installation. You may need to install some other packages, like 'wacom' related packages for the stylus etc. People were getting running on the thing back in 2009, so it should have pretty good hardware support by now.