I finally installed OpensSolaris on a 8G SDHC card. Thanks for a lot of good tips posted here and on other sites about the installation.
1. Never got the installation from USB memory stick to work. Had to use a USB dvd-drive to install the OpenSolaris 2008.05 CD. 2. Keyboard Based on information posted here adding '-v' to the kernel line in the grub menu get the keyboard to work. Used a USB keyboard during the install. 3. Wlan The ath-0.7.3 driver on: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/laptop/wireless/ath seems very stable. Using a wireless router I can now nfs mount my file systems and do ssh into the EeePc. Haven't experienced any problems with the wlan. In Linux you could switch on/off the wlan (blue light) to save power when not used. Don't know how they implemented that if it requires special features in the driver. To monitor and configure wlan is wificonfig the application to use or are there other (better) applications ? 4. Audio: Installing oss from www.opensound.com worked fine and gives decent audio. Make sure to bring-up both the ossxmix and the sound mixer in gnome to to make sure all master volumes are adjusted properly. I copied my mplayer installation I had built on my U20 and now I can even play 720p hd video on the little EeePC with good sound. This is great. Didn't expect the 900 MHz processor to be able to do that. 5. Issues still pending are wired LAN (Bug ID 6677682) and suspend/resume (which I've heard may be supported in later nv builds) Anyone knows if suspend works on other laptops ? 6. To try next is using external monitor and microphone. I don't think the internal mic will works as it did not even work in Linux. Will try with an external mic. 7. Other issues (may not be eee PC specific): Still suffering from warning messages about not having permission to use gnome-sys-suspend when I first log in. (Have only used cde before this install so don't know if this is a Gnome or laptop specific problem). Don't know how to get rid of this message. Other windows such as nautilus get opened on top of this warning message window, which hangs waiting for user input. It locks the Gnome GUI and I cannot bring the window on top to press an OK button. This only happens the first time I log in after a reboot. After getting logged in I can still do shutdown from the regular menu. Is the GUI based package installation manager supposed to work ? When I bring it up from the system administration menu I don't see any packages listed, everything is just empty. Do I need to set up something for that to work? When you install software can you mix installing some packages using pkgadd and others with the new IPS or can this cause dependency problems ? /KarlD _________________________________________________________________ News, entertainment and everything you care about at Live.com. Get it now! http://www.live.com/getstarted.aspx -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/eeepc-discuss/attachments/20080903/6dc28e0f/attachment.html>
