Greetings,
I recently purchased the EeePC 1000:
40gb ssd
1gb ram
1.6MHz Intel Atom i686
Because Ubuntu treats users like morons, I prefer to use Fedora 9, despite the fact there seems to be more support for Asus in that user community. So here is a collection of my notes, and issues.
challenges:
1. networking:
# lspci
. . .
01:00.0 Network controller: RaLink Unknown device 0781
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Attansic Technology Corp. Unknown device 1026 (rev b0)
The stock fedora 9 did not support either Wireless or Ethernet hardware, but fortunately I was able to get my company CDMA card to work, and get the latest software updates online. This would be a big show stopper for most people, freshly installing fedora and not having any networking. My advice is to get a cheap usb-to-ethernet device, or a supported mobile-wireless usb device like I used. Once all the updates to the kernel went in, the Attansic card became functional as ATL1E driver. The wireless driver is still not working which is a RaLink rt2860. I found Linux drivers frm the Ralink website:
http://www.ralinktech.com/ralink/Hom...ort/Linux.html
So far I have been unable to compile the driver. =(
As off this writing I'm using:
2.6.25.11-97.fc9.i686 #1 SMP
libgcc-4.3.0-8.i386
gcc-c++-4.3.0-8.i386
gcc-4.3.0-8.i386
glibc-common-2.8-8.i386
glib2-2.16.5-1.fc9.i386
glib-1.2.10-29.fc9.i386
glibc-devel-2.8-8.i386
glibc-2.8-8.i686
glibmm24-2.16.2-1.fc9.i386
glibc-headers-2.8-8.i386
Has anybody been able to compile this driver? If yes, can I have a copy of your .ko file, or instructions that worked for you to compile?
The insulting thing about all this is that the Linux distro that ships pre-installed with EeePC has working wifi driver, and ethernet. I'm considering to use the ndiswrappers, but I find the idea to be undesirable,, so I'm keeping that as an option of last resort.
The next challenge is ACPI related. After all my system updates completed, I tried to hibernate to the SSD drive, and the screen went black with blinking cursor. I shutdown the system by force (power key), and on the next bootup the system resumed to my previous desktop instance. So it partialy works just not all the way. I suspect the kernel module eeepc_laptop had something to do with that. See you lsmod output for modules.
All in all Im extremely happy with fedora 9 core on the EeePC 1000. The Gnome desktop does not overwhelm the device, and even compiz effects work with snappiness, and efficiency. I prefer to use fluxbox which is more suited for a light-weight laptop environment, and more importantly for 1024x600 desktop display. For example, in gnome you have basic gnome preference panels that are too tall to display in 600 pixels vertical. There is no acceptable method to move the window beyond the top boundary to reach the buttons you must "ok" , or "accept", or even "cancel" at the bottom. This is a major usability problem with Gnome in general, and is why Linus himself advocates users to avoid gnome as I suggest Ubuntu thinks users are morons. Anyways, the important ability Fluxbox provides is the capability to press 'alt+right click' to move/drag the window around when they are too big for the screen to get to the region of window you need. Also fluxbox is more efficient and makes Mozilla browsing better.
I hope this helps other EeePC 1000 and 901 users. Also I hope somebody can assist the 1000/901 community to get RaLink drivers working. =)
cheers,
-masta