Asus eee PC running Wolvix: a success story
i thought i should share my experiences because i believe Wolvix is the perfect distribution for the tiny laptop. so this is how i dealt with the problems i encountered:
1. networking
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after booting the liveCD via external CD drive i had no network connections. but i knew that linux drivers for the hardware existed since the eee runs Xandros. so i installed to an SD card first. that way i could stick the card into another linux machine and chroot into the system to easily install any missing packages. i didn't know how many dependencies i would have to deal with so that seemed the safest way to go. it turned out i was too scared - i believe i needed only gcc, binutils and make to compile the Atl2 Ethernet driver from the original source:
http://people.redhat.com/csnook/
those installation instructions helped me a lot:
make
sudo cp ./atl2.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/net
sudo depmod -a
sudo modprobe atl2
dmesg
ifconfig -a
source: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=696835&page=2
wolvix froze on me numerous times when i tried to install windows wireless drivers via System > Windows Wireless Drivers (integrated ndiswrapper), so i used another guide to load the drivers included on the ASUS driver DVD:
http://www.eeeguides.com/2007/11/get-wifi-working-in-different-linux.html
now the eee has wired and wireless internet.
2. display
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i wasn't able to get the right screen resolution from within Wolvix, but the eee sports an Intel video chipset with Linux support (or see above). this is how i resolved the problem: http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=15708
3. Flash storage
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since my eee uses only flash drives, i had to modify /etc/fstab and include noatime for the SD card. Wolvix has done this for the SSD already.
Great work!
cool - maybe you could write a full How-To for the wiki? I think it would be useful.
I second this suggestion! I see Wolvix (Hunter) as THE choice for my future Asus Eee900 and any How-To would make my life _so_ much easier!
Even better, of course, if Wolvix supported Eee right from the boot-up... I think Mandriva already does... ;)
sound on eeepc
FYI,
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Newsgroups: gmane.linux.distributions.grml.user
Subject: sound on eeepc works
Date: 13 Mar 2008
If i a remove the snd-hda-intel module and load it as follows
modprobe snd-hda-intel model=3stack-dig
the sound on the eeepc works, and if i do
echo sftsyn >/proc/speakup/synth_name
and swspeak the softwarespeak will work.
Regards.
Dietmar
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Joined: 2007-08-14