Hi Here is a quick write-up of my experience getting the EEE-1001HA to work; it wasn't entirly straightforward. Hopefully some of this information will be useful to other people with this netbook. Apparently some versions of this model come with linux pre-installed but I couldn't find any for sale (and would have re-installed anyway...)
1. INSTALLATION The networking for this device requires atl1c (wired) and rt3090 (wireless) kernel modules. Neither of these exist on the lenny installer so a net install is not an option. I created a boot usb-stick following the instructions on the wiki. http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/HowTo/InstallUsingStandardInstaller I had to modify the procedure as boot.img creates a small filesystem on the usb stick which doesn't have space for the entire disk1 iso. I had to mount the img as loop, copy the contents to a filesystem occupying the whole stick and then run syslinux to make it bootable. This is more or less the procedure described here http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/wiki/index.php/Install_to_USB_From_within_Linux I added a sid 2.6.31 kernel image to the usb stick and lenny's first install iso (not net install.) After running the installer I installed this kernel with dpkg, rebooted configured eth0 (wired) and added other packages and things with aptitude. 2. WIRELESS The sid image didn't contain rt3090 and there is a lot of talk on the internet about problems with the rt3090 module. I chose to compile my own 2.6.32 as this has the module included (albeit in staging) rather than try to patch 2.6.31. I now see that there are several 2.6.32 related packages in the sid package list so I don't know if one of those would have done. There is also a driver package from ralink http://www.ralinktech.com/support.php?s=2 but I didn't find this until I'd got most things working with 2.6.32. I don't know which kernels this will compile against or if it will work at all. The biggest problem I had with this wireless was the fact that I prioritized getting wifi to work above bothering with acpi scripts. I was trying to get wifi to connect whilst the wifi wasn't switched on (no blue light.) After installing the eeepc acpi scripts and turning on the wireless I could see wireless networks with "iwlist scan" and connect to them with network-manager. It still seems a little temperamental using iwconfig directly and I have yet to try wicd. 3. REMAINING ISSUES ACPI is still a bit odd but I think this is something to do with my home-compiled kernel. With the standard 2.6.26 everything seems to work and I can toggle the wireless but can only connect with ndiswrapper. Under 2.6.32 I can't probe eeepc-laptop (module exists but reports no such device, works with normal kernel.) There is discussion here http://dev.iksaif.net/issues/13 that sounds similar but I haven't had time to read that thoroughly enough to decide if it is relevant. Fortunately if I turn wireless on under 2.6.26 the state persists between boots so I can use the 2.6.32 driver. Disable touchpad button doesn't work (when acpi does) but I haven't investigated this yet. The one occasion I accidentally tried to suspend caused a hang, but I haven't investigated this either. Regards John This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses which could damage your computer system: you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation. _______________________________________________ Debian-eeepc-devel mailing list Debian-eeepc-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-eeepc-devel
