-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jeff Abrahamson wrote: > I installed debian using installer debian-eeepc-wpa.img. As I don't > have a way of stating a version, I'll offer the md5 sum of the binary > I used: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/ORIG-eeePC$ md5sum debian-eeepc-wpa.img > 897d1d781907f3f6e6624cc1f7b0c963 debian-eeepc-wpa.img > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/ORIG-eeePC$ > > The network portion worked quite well and the install mostly proceeded > flawlessly. Kudos to the team that put it together.
Thanks for feedback > Nonetheless, the install didn't "just work". Here's some feedback. > > The basic install didn't provide a working X server. Maybe it should > be easy to apt-get install it later, but I found it confusing. I > eventually had to run tasksel to install a desktop environment (that I > didn't want). This should be covered in the install guide. Or its also mentioned on our wiki. We are trying to stray as little as possible from the official d-i, so in this regard, it would be the d-boot team you should send suggestions to if you would like tasksel or whatever to change. > > Somewhere through this the BIOS decided that WLAN should be disabled. > This took a while to debug, as it was unexpected. Once I turned it on > again, I was able to get gnome to enable wifi. Quite odd, you installed via wireless or with ethernet? I haven't heard of this happening before. (ie, bios switch being toggled because of an install. Seems strange) > > Oddly, after installing the desktop environment but before removing > anything, apt-get started recommending I do an apt-get autoremove, > which told me it would remove most of gnome. When I did, of course, > bad things happened to gnome. (But I planned to remove most of it > anyway, so it wasn't so bad, just bizarre.) This also should be passed on to the debian-boot people. > > I now have a working system except that the wifi appears to hang > frequently (or maybe just freeze up for a while). It's enough to sudo > ifdown ath0 && sudo ifup ath0, but I haven't figured out why this is > happening. I'm not blaming you guys, mind you, just reporting it. ;-) Anything in dmesg that looks like wifi errors? > > Anyway, thanks for helping me get my eeepc 900 working under debian. > Fwiw, to identify the machine, here's a snippet from /proc/cpuinfo: > > vendor_id : GenuineIntel > cpu family : 6 > model : 13 > model name : Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor 900MHz > stepping : 8 > cpu MHz : 900.164 > cache size : 512 KB > > Thanks much. > Glad it was mostly painless. Have fun with it :) Cheers Glenn -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkilPIwACgkQV8GyuTwyskNOcACgjDKQYJs0n73TWpJ3lEG5eAPn 6nMAn37ennf3kXVtJijohT5kuta1DftH =gcJE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Debian-eeepc-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-eeepc-devel
