On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 11:42:58AM +0200, Herbert Graeber wrote:
Neil schrieb:
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 9:35 AM, Ruben Safir <ruben@mrbrklyn.com> wrote:
Neil wrote:
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 1:08 AM, Henare Degan <henare.degan@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 23:31, Ruben Safir <ruben@mrbrklyn.com> wrote: [...] I have installed 11.0 to a EeePC 701 with it. I had a few minor problems, but it works.
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.
openSUSE installs fine on the EEEPCs. Have a look into the wiki and you will find everything you need, including the drivers, which are currently spread over multiple BuildService repositories.
With openSUSE 11.1 the current EEEPC hardware should work out of the box.
It didn't but I'm going to reinstall it more carefully. The thing is, if the network drivers aren't in the kernel then drivers on the repositories aren't that helpul. Ruben
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