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ostraya

Netbooks redux

Apr 14, 2009 02:02

So I started with a few qualifications ( Read more... )

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thewronghands April 14 2009, 19:57:24 UTC

I have an Eee 1000 HE, and while I do love it, I went through hell to get wireless working on it under Ubuntu (the chip needs the ath9k drivers, which are not included under the main distro kernel or sources, I upgraded to 2.6.27 and that at least made it work, but there are still problems with pciehp when you suspend and resume, such that you have to modprobe pciehp and ath9k out and in again, I know that's got to be trivially fixable but have not yet found the place to do it, I also added in a bunch of custom patches that were supposed to fix this behaviour and didn't). So, if you go for it, be prepared for wireless doom under many distros with less-than-bleeding-edge kernels. I will happily share my experience with you in more detail if that helps.

ostraya April 15 2009, 02:22:08 UTC

Amusingly enough, the only reason I moved to a mac in the first place is that the wireless cards of the time weren't well-supported in linux.

Plus ça change, eh?

D'oh! thewronghands April 15 2009, 05:24:19 UTC

Oh, well, that theory bites the dust.

Srsly, the other minilaptops in Canada refuse installation of Linux. Jeesh.

Asad

(The CAPTCHA is "tender Indian", haha.)

Re: D'oh! thewronghands April 15 2009, 05:30:13 UTC

Looking around the US interwebs, there are minilaptops in the USA which come with Linux preloaded and apparently have working wireless and are not Asus. I'm surprised you can't find any in Canada.

Asad

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