i installed yesterday debian lenny on asus 1101ha. here is a few notes on what i did:
- i used normal lenny installation from usb memory stick by placing the files on the stick as instructed in http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s03.html.en - because wired ethernet and wlan hardware is not supported by lenny, i attached an usb wlan adapted to another usb port and then booted the installer from the stick in another usb port. - i had a bit trouble with my usb wlan adapter, because it was not supported by lenny installer either. this problem i got solved by placing zd1211-firmware_2.21.0.0-0.1_all.deb on a second memory stick and then installed the package with udpkg -i when lenny installer started to complain about missing network hardware driver. - forgot to mention that i started the installer in expert mode and selected wireless tools to be included in the installation. that allowed me to use iwconfig command to configure wlan essid. after that, i brought wlan0 interface up with 'ip link set wlan0 up' followed by 'dhclient wlan0'. - after that i returned to installer and continued normally, but skipped network configuration. if i remember correctly, i didn't need to do anything else special during the installation and lenny rebooted itself fine from hard disk. - at this point i had lenny running on 1101ha without any native network connectivity. i had to correct hostname and include lo interface due to skipping network configuration during installation, - wired ethernet i got working by compiling and installing atl1c module from source AR81Family-linux-v1.0.0.10.tar.gz, which is available on Atheros web site. - wlan interface started to work, when i upgraded kernel to 2.6.30 from lenny backport packages on backports.org. - x11 i got working in 1366x768 mode by following instructions on this page: http://lists.debian.org/debian-laptop/2009/08/msg00031.html but i didn't patch anything. instead, i installed grub2 packages from debian unstable distribution, where 915resolution patches are already included. - alsa sound (including internal mic) i got working by installing version 1.0.20 of alsa packages from debian testing. that is how far i have got. i haven't had time to check function keys or camera yet. i'm pretty satisfied with the result, because i didn't need to force dpkg to do anything. i realize that vesa based x11 is not efficient, but at this writing i haven't heard of any clean way to install native GMA 500 (poulsbo) xserver driver in lenny. -- juha _______________________________________________ Debian-eeepc-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-eeepc-devel
