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[squonk]

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For all those boycotting OpenSuse 10.3 close this window NOW :-)

In my depression over the Xandros included OS i began a quest to get all phases of the Eee PC working in OpenSuse 10.3

I appologize for not including every single little command but I have been in Linux Eee PC bootcamp for 4 days figuring all this out and im extremely tired :)
This is my first guide so please be gentle LOL (NOT)

My machine is and 8G (Model 702 bios 0201) with a 2 gig Kingston ddr2 667 module and these direction are for KDE3. After this install there is 1.8 gig free plus 16 gig sdhc card, and 16 gig corsair voyager usb drive

I am using Acronis True Image 11 to back up the drive to toggle between Xandros and OpenSuse 10.3 as i got things set up in both Os's to save progress and refer to how the original OS was doing things. I am

using Acronis Disk Utilities suite to blow away the partitions and then restore.

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Installation:
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1) Blow away all partitions

2) Boot to a USB2 DVD drive with Open Suse 10.3 x86 dvd in the drive and choose INSTALL (make sure you change your bios too boot from a cd first).
If you download the dvd and the disk check says the disk is bad burn the image at 4x

3) Once your at the screen to install software, choose the expert tab, then click on the heading software in the list

4) Add or remove any software in the categories you want or dont want but make sure ya check off kernel and base developement in the dev section

5) accept all the prompts after clicking OK and install everything (go snowblow your driveway or something cause this is gonna take a while)

6) at the end of the install the machine reboots and then boots to the cd again but this time take the default on the menu "Boot to Hard Disk" (dont worry if you missed this while snow blowing because

it picks boot to hard drive as the default :-)

7) set up your root password and click next

8) The Networking Tab will now load and you will notice the Lan drivers are not detected, CLICK Next

9) Set up your user account and dont forget to uncheck to automaticly log in cause this is insecure

10) The hardware dection screen for the LCD Sound etc... is the very last screen before launching your new install

11) on the hardware detection screen notice the lcd and video are not detected properly and the default res is 800 x 600

12) click the line that says aspect ratio and choose 16/10

13) click the line that says minitor and choose LCD 800 x 600

14) notice the option below the monitor aspect res line to disable or enable 3d acceleration, click enable to enable 3d acceleration

15) click next so it launches into open suse (If you dont get a gui login reboot once)

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Fix the screen size:
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1) open the admistrative file manager and browse to /etc/X11
2) backup the xorg.conf file by right clicking it and copy to the same folder. Give it a new name when opensuse complains
3) now right click the xorg.conf file and choose to open with kate or kwrite and edit the following

a) change the modeline to = ModeLine "800x480" 29.58 800 816 896 992 480 481 484 497

b) change the screen/subsection/default depth 24 ----> change the 800x600 to 800x480

c) save the file and reboot

Note : currently the device is using Xorg as its display manager and we want to keep it that way until we do compiz-fusion so leave it alone lol

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Lan Drivers (So we can add repositories)
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1) download the linux lan driver tgz file from asus's download site

2) extract the file (you can do this on a windows box as well) and copy the atl2.ko file to a usb drive (or get the one from xandros before ya blow away the OS)

3) plug the usb drive into your eee pc and do the following:

a) open the administrative file manager and browse to the /lib/modules/kernelversion-default/kernel/drivers/net directory and create a new folder called atl2

b) copy the atl2.ko file from your usb drive to the /lib/modules/kernelversion-default/kernel/drivers/net/atl2 folder

c) open a Konsole window and su to root

d) # insmod /lib/modules/<KERNEL VERSION>/kernel/drivers/net/atl2/atl2.ko

e) in the administrative file manager browse to the following location /etc/init.d

f) back up the rc file by right clicking, choosing copy and pasting it into the same folder, give it a different name when suse complains

g) right click the rc file and choose open with kate or kwrite and scroll all the way down the file to the last line called -- exit 0

h) paste the following line just above the very last line ---> /lib/modules/<KERNEL VERSION>/kernel/drivers/net/atl2/atl2.ko

i) save the file and reboot


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Setting up repositories
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1) now that lan is working you want to set up repositories for installing software

2) open yast and provide the root password

3) click on Community Repositories and check off the following ---> Main Update repository | Main OSS | Main Non OSS | Packman | Video Lan | Build Service Webcams

4) click finish and accept any and all certificates and licenses that pop up as it builds the repository cache

5) when thats done your back at the yast screen and we need to remove the DVD as a repository as we dont need it anymore

6) click on Software Repositories and when it launches highlight the repository that says DVD and uncheck the enable button and choose finish

7) back in yast again click the Software Repositories one more time and choose ADD / pick http / name = Atheros drivers - Madwifi Project / server = madwifi.org / directory = suse/10.3

8) click finish and this will take a while to populate and send a cert and then cache but let it go ( this is for future wifi driver support as the madwifi drivers from this repo dont work on the E3 yet)


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Enable DVD playback plugins etc.....
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1) In yast click on software management (if the updater is still looking for updates you may get a retry error, honestly just right click the updater and change it to not start in startup and then right

click its icon near the clock and tell it to quit, you can always launch this manualy from the menu and it just gets in the way and we wont update anything just quite yet through the updater

2) once you get to the search screen search for the following programs and check them off if they are not checked, you can search and check multiple programs in a row!!

a) flash-player, realplayer, acroread, java-1_5_0-sun, java-1_5_0-sun-plugin (do not load java 6 yet)

b) click finish to install everyhting and at the end choose to install more software

c) now search for w32codec-all, maplayer, and mplayerplug-in (click finish and install all of them)

d) choose to install more programs

e) now we will load madwifi to force a kernel update but the wireless drivers will not work and will be handled in a different section below

f) search for madwifi and check off madwifi and madwifi-kmp-default -------> at the end of this reboot the machine as your kernel has been updated

3) Go back into yast and choose software management again search and check off libdvdcss (illegal in the US) and xine-ui ---> install these and dvd playback will be working after you reboot

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Wireless drivers
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1) In your home directory create a folder called madwifi

2) download this http://madwifi.org/a...atch?format=raw

3) download this http://snapshots.mad...20071018.tar.gz

4) put the files in your home directory and extract the tar.gz file by right clicking on it and choosing extrac here

5) in the directoy that the extract created (madwifi-ng-r2756-20071018) copy the patch file to that directory

6) open a konsole change to root, cd to madwifi-ng-r2756-20071018 do the following as root

a) patch -p0 < madwifi-0933.ar2425.20071130.i386.patch

b) make clean

c) make KERNELPATH=/lib/modules/2.6.22.13-0.3-default/build (This is the location of the .config file its looking for)(or kernelversion-default/build for your kernel version)

d) make install

7) open a new konsole and

a) su - (the dash changes to roots environement variable)

b) password

c) modprobe ath_pci

d) reboot

8) when the machine comes back up wireless still wont be working LOL

a) open yast

b) click software management

c) once in the search box search again for madwifi

d) right click both madwifi packages that you checked off earlier and choose to delete (or uninstall)

e) reboot and wireless will be working lol

f) configure the card as normal under yast / hardware/ network cards

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Sound Drivers
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1) DONT MESS WITH ANYTHING LIKE THE SOUND CONFIGURATION IN YAST OR ALSACONF

2) your card was already detected, you just need to do the following

3) go to http://software.open...openSUSE%3A10.3

4) click on the one click installer icon for the alsa-driver-kmp-default for kernel 2.6.22.13blah-default and install it

5) reboot sound is working

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Launch Opensuse updater and update the updater and then the system with all updates and reboot (there are a few that wont take) dont worry
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WebCam
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1) as long as its enabled in the bios it just works

2) I havent tried skype but i set up Kopete chat and then chose to configure it and the fist setting is video and it just popped up and was working


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Sierra Wireless 595U on Sprint
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1) this is a USB Rev EVDO A device

a) open Yast

b) Software management

c) search for kppp (I could not get Kinternet working)

d) install kppp

c) download this pdf http://www4.sprint.c...loads/items.jsp and only follow the instructions for the setting up kppp portion

d) make a shrotcut to kppp on your desktop, right click it and under the application tab choose advanced

e) set the application to run as a different user ---> root

f) in order to avoid root errors when exiting kppp you should also right click the icon on the desktop and give it a new name (say Sprint) and change its icon picture. This is a known bug in

many linux distros where a shortcut on the desktop with the same name and icon as the real menu entry creat a root error when exiting kppp

g) plug in your wireless modem and launch kppp and set it up per the pdf you downloaded above. (I would imagine this would work for many sierra sprint usb devices)

h) unplug your lan and disable wireless in connection manager and then launch kppp and choose connect :-)

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Compiz Fusion
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1) click on the one click installer for kde - suse 10.3 here http:\\en.opensuse.org\Compiz_Fusion and install it

2) click on the one click installer for Compiz Manager (on the same page just below the two desktop installs --- do not change from xorg to xgl yet) reboot

3) open yast

4) click software management

5) on the search screen search for compiz

6) check off compiz-fusion-kde, compiz-bcop, libcompizconfig-backend-kconfig for kde, and the opensuse-xgl-settings app

7) install them all and reboot

8) login and under new programs launch the xgl settings program

9) change to the compiz-fusion experamental tab

10) click the first button to install compiz fusion and dependencies (i dont know why the one click installers dont do this properly and why compiz-fusion-kde is not installed)

11) click the second button to enable xgl and then reboot

12) I actualy got two compiz-fusion icons running (lol) which i did the following to get the correct one launching in startup

a) browse to your home deirectory /bin and delete the compiz-settings startup file in there and reboot (or cut and paste the file somewhere else)

b) if your going to be playing dvds in kafien or xine launch kaffien and then under the settings/xine engine parameters settings

c) under video change to the xshm driver and under compiz-fusion settings in the utility section check off video playback

Note if for whatever reason XGL did not activate go to Yast/system/etc sysconfig Editor and open the desktop/display manager key and change the first item in the list to Xgl from Xorg and reboot (this is case sensative) compiz-fusion should start on next boot.

I have all desktop affects enabled and things are running extremely well, so it should really fly once we get a 900 mghts fix LOL


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K3b and mp3 codecs
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1) open yast

2) click software management

3) search for k3b

4) right click to update k3b and also check off the k3b codecs package to enable audio cd creation

5) install the softwares and launch k3b and choose to enable konqueror integration


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IE 6 (do all of this as you not root)
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1) open yast

2) choose software management

3) search for cabextract and if its not installed install it

4) go to http://download.open...SUSE_10.3/i586/ and donload the wine-0.9.51-12.1.i586.rpm to your desktop

5) right click it and under actions choose to install with yast

6) download http://www.tatanka.c...x/download.html

7) move the ies4linux-latest.tar.gz from your desktop to home directory

8) right click it and choose extract here

9) cd ies4linux-*

10) ./ies4linux and choose the ie 6 install (you have to have IE6 installed bare minimum to follow the IE7 hack instructions floating arround on the web

Note: I install IE6 so i can accept active x controlls from my video surveilance dvr and bring up the viewing applet


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Disabling Beagle the Open Suse Indexer
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1) http://en.opensuse.o...isabling_Beagle


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Format SDHC to xt3
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1) I was able to do this easily by opening yast and going into the system icon and picking the partitioner. deleted the 16 gig vfat on my a-data class 6 turbo and the created a partiton using extended 3

with no mount point

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TO DO List
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1) Get hotkeys working, some work and some dont, If anyone has any ideas where the file is to edit in open suse please let me know



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Troubleshooting I ran across
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1) corrupt repository with sql pointer missing

a) no clue why packman corrupted but the error makes it look like its non-oss

b) to fix this do this

c) open a console and change to root

d) cd /var/cache/zypp/

e) rm zypp.db

f) zypper refresh

g) zypper update

2) Trash not removing things i deleted as root

a) as root but in the users home directory

b) cd .local/share/trash/files

c) rm -rf any files

d) cd ..

e) cd info

f) rm -rf any file

h) trash will be empty when ya reboot


Please let me know if I missed anything or if I can clear up anything above that may seem confusing or just wrong lol !!

regards :-)

Edited by squonk, 21 December 2007 - 04:50 AM.

[CMYanko]

You rock! Wiki-fy this, stat.

[NS]

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WebCam
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1) as long as its enabled in the bios it just works

2) I havent tried skype but i set up Kopete chat and then chose to configure it and the fist setting is video and it just popped up and was working

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Verification: Is it Yahoo or MSN (or Both) working with webcam in Kopete for making call? I am interested in Yahoo IM in Kopete but not MSN (not user of MSN).

http://wiki.kde.org/...ebcam%20support

Edited by NS, 21 December 2007 - 01:21 AM.

[squonk]

Yahoo and aim worked fine, messenger sucks lol

[NS]

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Yahoo and aim worked fine, messenger sucks lol

Thanks a lot for the info.

Never install MSN messenger. And never will use and even trying it, LOL

I wonder if Skype2 for Opensuse would be working right away, if installed - free video calling (xandros skype2 is the most useful app in my eee)

Download here:
http://www.skype.com...ux/beta/choose/

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Blowing partitions and creating one, I think we can use this, PartedMagic

http://www.3eportal....id=15&Itemid=34
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Edited by NS, 21 December 2007 - 03:40 AM.

[squonk]

Thanks for the parted magic link this stuff is cool :-)

[smoti51]

Thank you for this thread and info - I too have been working on getting openSUSE 10.3 working on my eee, and am pleased to report good progress with most stuff working. I have done things slightly differently (which is not to say better !), installed to SD initially, and compiled the atl2 & asus_acpi driver modules from source. Your xorg.conf tweak is especially helpful as I hadn't figured that. Probably going to have a look at partition resizing using YaST, and suspend next..

Cheers !

Keith

[MikeW]

What are the chances of getting this running on the 4Gb SSD only? Or maybe should I look at a earlier version of SuSE such as 9x?

Thanks

[smoti51]

My setup is a 4Gb SSD, 512M RAM PC 701 with no webcam, no modem, so it is a tight fit, and some yast2 operations take rather a _long_ time. I have installed SUSE onto a 4Gb SDHC card, and am currently booting off of that, keeping the Xandros on the internal SSD for reference so far.

At present, the system fits into just over 3Gb of flash, plus about another 300Mb for the kernel sources I used to compile the various drivers. I've tried to tweak this downwards, but the only remaining big wins seem to be not to install kde-multimedia/k3b et al, or Firefox. Next I'm going to try scrapping the Xandros and moving the SUSE install to the internal SSD.

To compile the acpi and network drivers, I installed the following packages:
- linux-kernel-headers
- kernel-default
- kernel-source
and then learned the hard way these need to be updated to the latest 2.6.22.13-0.3 kernel *first*..

I pulled the acpi sources from the Asus website, unpacked them and edited the Makefile so that KERNEL_VERSION was updated to the above instead of 2.6.21.4-eeepc. The resulting asus_acpi module got copied across to /lib/modules/2.6.22.13-0.3-default/kernel/drivers/acpi/, then depmod -ae

To get this and a couple of other kernel modules which auto-load at boot time in Xandros but not by default in SUSE, I added them to /etc/sysconfig/kernel as follows:

MODULES_LOADED_ON_BOOT="autofs4 asus_acpi fuse"

When asus_acpi is loaded correctly, I get:

[eeepc hotk] Hotkey init flags 0x41.
[eeepc hotk] Get control methods supported : 0x101701

in dmesg okay - this is necessary but probably not sufficient to get the hotkeys working.

Have now got 800x480 display and sound working nicely as per squonk's instructions above :-)

[squonk]

Thanks Smoti, ill give this a try in the morning for the hotkeys. Appreciate the help :-)

As for 4 G guys thats gonna be a tight fit. I should try installing with the sdhc card formatted xt3 and see if changing the home partition to it will ballance the space out. Its the only way i can see getting a full install of suse on a 4 G.

FYI - mp3's are getting much better performance off the sd card than the usb. Just thought I'd throw that in :-)

[smoti51]

Well, migrating a bootable system from the external SD to the internal SSD was
in fact a rather painful way to do it (would definitely recommend Squonk's
install-from-scratch approach above instead), but I now have openSUSE 10.3
running on my 4G eee :-) It *is* tight, but by putting /var and a work
partition on the external SD, I have room for Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice,
k3b and kernel source:

Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 3795776 3037924 603628 84% /
/dev/sdb2 1075208 215248 805340 22% /var

YaST2 partition re-sizing seemed to work just fine on the internal SSD.
I've also kept the original eee grub, initrd and kernel together with the
BIOS partitions handy on the internal SSD if I ever need them.

The "zypper update" somehow managed to mangle my X fonts down to something
microscopically unreadable, have partially but not completely managed to
fix this :-(

Have tried suspend to disk onto a restore partition on the external SSD, but
not having much luck with this.

On hotkeys, it looks like the config needs to go into hotkey-setup and/or
keytouch (e.g. see http://forum.eeeuser...ic.php?id=3413), but have
not looked into this further.

Bluetooth appears to "just work" using a D-Link DBT-120 USB dongle.

Edited by smoti51, 31 December 2007 - 11:06 PM.

[smoti51]

Pretty much have a fully usable system now :-)
Fixed the font size by commenting out the incorrect "DisplaySize" from xorg.conf.
Have managed to get dual-head video working, though using xrandr for this rather than the xinerama stuff.
Reading posts here for other distros, suspend looks like it will require some investigation...

[TOTGIO]

I try to do like your step and logs in below:

Admin@MTL73240:~> dir
total 32
drwxr-xr-x 2 Admin users 4096 2008-01-10 16
:51 bin
drwx------ 3 Admin users 4096 2008-01-10 16
:55 Desktop
drwx------ 2 Admin users 4096 2008-01-10 16
:51 Documents
drwxr-xr-x 2 Admin users 4096 2008-01-10 16
:51 public_html
Admin@MTL73240:~> cd Desktop/
Admin@MTL73240:~/Desktop> dir
total 68
drwxr-xr-x 13 Admin users 4096 2008-01-10 1
6:09 madwifi-ng-r2756-20071018
-rw-r--r-- 1 Admin users 1874 2008-01-10 1
6:54 MozillaFirefox.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 Admin users 1515 2008-01-10 1
6:54 myComputer.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 Admin users 1051 2008-01-10 1
6:54 Office.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 Admin users 3952 2008-01-10 1
6:54 Printer.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 Admin users 672 2008-01-10 1
6:54 Support.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 Admin users 321 2008-01-10 1
6:54 SuSE.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 Admin users 5422 2008-01-10 1
6:54 trash.desktop
Admin@MTL73240:~/Desktop> cd madwifi-ng-r27
56-20071018/
Admin@MTL73240:~/Desktop/madwifi-ng-r2756-2
0071018> patch -p0 < madwifi-ng-0933.ar2425
.20071130.i386.patch
patching file hal/ah.h
patching file hal/public/i386-elf.hal.o.uu
patching file hal/public/i386-elf.inc
patching file hal/public/i386-elf.opt_ah.h
patching file hal/version.h
Admin@MTL73240:~/Desktop/madwifi-ng-r2756-2
0071018> make clean
Makefile.inc:91: *** KERNELCONF: /lib/modul es/2.6.22.5-31-default/build/.config does n ot exist.. Stop.
Admin@MTL73240:~/Desktop/madwifi-ng-r2756-2 0071018> su
Password:
MTL73240:/home/Admin/Desktop/madwifi-ng-r27
56-20071018 # make clean
Makefile.inc:91: *** KERNELCONF: /lib/modul es/2.6.22.5-31-default/build/.config does n ot exist.. Stop.
MTL73240:/home/Admin/Desktop/madwifi-ng-r2756-20071018 # make KERNELPATH=/lib/modules/2.6.22.5-31-default/
Makefile.inc:91: *** KERNELCONF: /lib/modules/2.6.22.5-31-default//.config does not exist.. Stop.
MTL73240:/home/Admin/Desktop/madwifi-ng-r2756-20071018 # make install
Makefile.inc:91: *** KERNELCONF: /lib/modules/2.6.22.5-31-default/build/.config does not exist.. Stop.
MTL73240:/home/Admin/Desktop/madwifi-ng-r2756-20071018 # make KERNELPATH=/lib/modules/2.6.22.13-0.3-defualt
/bin/sh: line 0: cd: /lib/modules/2.6.22.13-0.3-defualt: No such file or directory
Makefile.inc:66: *** /lib/modules/2.6.22.13-0.3-defualt is missing, please set KERNELPATH. Stop.
MTL73240:/home/Admin/Desktop/madwifi-ng-r2756-20071018 # make KERNELPATH=/lib/modules/2.6.22.5-31-default/build
Makefile.inc:91: *** KERNELCONF: /lib/modules/2.6.22.5-31-default/build/.config does not exist.. Stop.
MTL73240:/home/Admin/Desktop/madwifi-ng-r2756-20071018 # exit
exit
Admin@MTL73240:~/Desktop/madwifi-ng-r2756-20071018> make clean
Makefile.inc:91: *** KERNELCONF: /lib/modules/2.6.22.5-31-default/build/.config does not exist.. Stop.
Admin@MTL73240:~/Desktop/madwifi-ng-r2756-20071018> make KERNELPATH=/lib/modules/2.6.22.5-31-default/build
Makefile.inc:91: *** KERNELCONF: /lib/modules/2.6.22.5-31-default/build/.config does not exist.. Stop.
Admin@MTL73240:~/Desktop/madwifi-ng-r2756-20071018> make install
Makefile.inc:91: *** KERNELCONF: /lib/modules/2.6.22.5-31-default/build/.config does not exist.. Stop.
Admin@MTL73240:~/Desktop/madwifi-ng-r2756-20071018>
Admin@MTL73240:~/Desktop/madwifi-ng-r2756-20071018>

Now I tried very much about this pls help me.
What should I do?

[TOTGIO]

Yes Thank you so much.

You are my god thank you thank you

War in this week for me............

[atrapine]

Thanks for this SuSe is a very good distro. One thing that could be added is to install Smart package manager as this is much like Synaptic for Ubuntu and works much better than yast.

[jantman]

I have OpenSuSE 10.3 running on my 4G Galaxy (upgraded to 1GB RAM) off of a 4GB Transcend SDHC card. I'll post a howto on my wiki later this week,

So far I have one problem - When I open Kopete, It doesn't recognize any video devices, and UCView doesn't either. Any tips?

Squonk - do you know what driver your webcam is using?

Thanks,
J

[Engineer]

According to opensuse's hardware compatibility list, most components can be made to work:
http://en.opensuse.o...CL/Laptops/Asus

... an exercise in recursion...

Edited by Engineer, 16 January 2008 - 10:18 PM.

[jantman]

Thanks.

I got the webcam working by installing the ucd drivers rpm.

Any thoughts on asus_acpi (I don't have enough space left on / to install kernel-source) or suspend to RAM?

[smoti51]

Been away for a bit, getting use of my eee on the road :-)
A few thoughts/comments since I last posted which might be helpful:

- I haven't tried this, but I note that the opensuse build service (see above re ALSA)
has RPMs for atl2 ethernet drivers, and also for much more recent madwifi drivers than
the ones being posted and patched here. These might be an alternative to building them
from source..

- when I migrated my system from the SDHC card to booting off the internal disk,
it was necessary to build the initrd to include some additional ATA modules needed

- not managed to investigate suspend yet

- note that the eee entry in the suse hardware compatibility website was posted by me on
the basis of what is here !

[jantman]

I'm also still working on suspend. I also still don't have the asus_acpi kernel module for the eee, so my battery runtime calculations are *totally* off.

That being said, I've posted my HowTo on my site - JasonAntman.com wiki.

I reference this page as the first place to look, I just posted a few differences that I found and an in-depth section on installing to an external SDHC card.