Even though you might have an older eee PC model, I suggest that you install Fedora 9 on it. Even Fedora 8 is lacking suitable drivers. I recently used liveusb creator to download and install Fedora 9-KDE on an eee PC 4G. The live boot worked fine and the machine networked instantly with a DHCP connection via LAN cable. I installed from the live desktop, using the default partition scheme, and everything was fine upon reboot. I then instrall kmod-madwifi package, and after another reboot, wireless was up and running. I travel a lot, and I have to say that my experience with the capabilities and convenience of the eee PC are very different from yours. I am able to do a lot of work remotely, but I even have the Gimp installed on the thing. Peter
Peter D. Roopnarine, Assoc. Curator Dept. of Invertebrate Zoology & Geology California Academy of Sciences 875 Howard St. San Francisco CA 94103 USA http://zeus.calacademy.org/roopnarine/peter.html http://www.calacademy.org/blogs Tel. (415)379-5271 "There's a thing about Americans. We're not very good occupiers." Judgement at Nuremberg -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Beartooth Sent: Sun 8/17/2008 7:14 AM To: [email protected] Subject: F7 on EeePC : how to connect?? I have what I think is one of the earliest EeePCs; a label on the back says ASUS 701 -- model number?? After a lot of trouble, I got it to triple-boot Puppy, Eeedora, and Fedora 8, two of them from geek sticks. Then when I tried using them all, I soon found that for anyone with large trifocal fingers and arthritic eyeballs, about its only worthwhile use would be sitting in waiting rooms. So I fitted it and its peripheral paraphernalia into a suitable receptacle, and kept that handy. But it happened that I had no occasion to use it for several weeks. When I did, the battery had gone dead, just sitting there. Once I got it usable at all again, two of the three boots were unusable, and the other was my least favorite. Yesterday I installed Fedora 7, from a live CD in an external USB drive -- twice. After the second install, which wouldn't boot, I tried booting it with the puppy stick inserted -- and it booted, but to Fedora. But it can't seem to find the ethernet cable which is plugged right into it. (Come to think of it, anaconda never asked me its usual routine questions about connecting.) How do I get the fool thing to connect?? -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Fedora 7, 8 & 9; Alpine 1.10, Pan 0.132; Privoxy 3.0.6; Dillo 0.8.6, Galeon 2, Epiphany 2, Opera 9, Firefox 2 & 3 Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about. -- fedora-list mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
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