[Techtalk] Asus EeePC

[Billie Walsh]

Kathryn Andersen wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 09:26:33PM -0500, Billie Walsh wrote:
>   
>> How does the Eeebuntu work on the Eee? I've seen some chatter about 
>> things not working after the install.
>>     
>
> Well, there's eeebuntu, and there's eeeXubuntu, and I haven't used the
> former.
>   

Hmm, didn't realize we were talking about two different things.

> When I installed eeeXubuntu, it was based on 7.10 Xubuntu, and it worked
> fine.  Someone in that group even made a patched kernel which fixed some
> issues with the SD card and suspend.
>
> However, I didn't want to stay at 7.10 when 8.04 came out, so I
> upgraded, and ended up having a couple of problems:
> 1) the wireless only works if you download and build the latest madwifi
>   drivers (and one has to re-do this every time you upgrade the kernel)
>   

That seems odd. My only experience with wireless has been on my two 
other, full size, laptops. One uses an Atheros PCMCIA card and the other 
is a built in Intel card. Madwifi was always just available. No 
compiling necessary. That could be a difference in distros but I 
wouldn't expect it between EeeXubuntu and Kubuntu. I would think they 
used pretty much the same repositories.

> 2) the problem with the SD card + suspend came back, and I didn't want to
>   patch the kernel myself.
>
> However, I did manage, after googling, to come up with a compromise for
> point #2, by adding the following option to my grub config:
>
> usbcore.autosuspend=1
>
> What this does is that every time you suspend, it unmounts the SD card.
> This means that you have to re-mount it when you come back from suspend,
> but that's a lot better than the state it would get into before, when it
> was neither mounted nor unmounted and one would have to reboot in order
> to get it into a usable state.
>
> So, those two things are niggly things, but I'm willing to put up with
> them.  And the second one isn't an issue unless one wishes to keep an SD
> card in the machine all the time as extra "disk" space.
>
> Kathryn Andersen
>   

Keeping in the 8gig SD card for me seems like a "have-to-have". The 
original 4gig "drive" is pretty much full. I would like to move "Home" 
there if it's possible.

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