[opensuse] Re: openSuSE 11 on a EEEPC 701

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Neil wrote:

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 9:35 AM, Ruben Safir wrote:

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Neil wrote:

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On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 1:08 AM, Henare Degan wrote:

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On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 23:31, Ruben Safir wrote:

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Does anyone know how I can turn the flash drive into a bootable install disk?

Hi Ruben,

There is some documentation on the wiki[0] but I've never used it myself.

h

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Hi

I have installed 11.0 to a EeePC 701 with it. I had a few minor problems, but it works.

Neil

Neil, lets talk about the EEEPC

Did SuSE recognize your network and wireless card? It seems to not have found them on the install, or I installed it wrong? The kernel is not picking up the modules in the installed version, and the yast configuration is asking for me to either name the modules

.... uh ... i'd need to compile the kernel to really know that, or something new called a SFkey or something like that?

I thought this wireless card was fairly well supported on the linux kernel and with madwifi so I'm very puzzled how it can't identify the wife chipset.

Ruben

Hi

No, the network cards were not detected. I tried to get them working with the Madwifi drivers, but didn't succede. In the end I heard the Debian Lenny (beta) netinstall was able to get them working and that was quite easy. The cards were detected by the installer and I could install via them (only a 128 meg USB key needed. It might even be possible with some old 64M one. The data comes over the internet.)

I haven't been using it a lot lately but I encountered no problems I didn't cause myself, only the ACPI seems to fail at times (when shutting down the light stays on)

All in all, I am quite happy with it, although I do miss Yast.

Neil

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Oh, I forgot: the new kernel has the Atheros drivers in it, and it will detect the cards natively Neil -- There are three kinds of people: Those who can count, and those who cannot count ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ** Hi! I'm a signature virus! Copy me into your signature, please! ** ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org