Yep , downloading the alternate iso right now . I will install it and report later on .

Edit : in the bug-list , it says wireless doesn't work on the eeepc . Let's see !

Last edited by oupsemma (2008-07-03 5:20:52 pm)

I had forgotten it took so much time to install Ubuntu ! Now it's 2:45 a.m so I will report later on.
Ethernet works all right ; wireless not , I installed Wifi-radar but it is buggy and won't work for the moment
The eye-candy is dark-brow and in the same inspiration as Parsix . I'll post screenshots tomorrow morning...time for sleep now!

I installed RiceeeyTweak , so OSD are functional .
Fn + function keys are working , except Fn + F2 for Wireless , which always tell Wireless is off . And The blue LED for Wireless is always on , never off .
I desinstalled Wifi-radar and reinstalled it , as there was a sudo-to-root bug , but I still got no chance , it was still buggy and non-usable .
So no Wireless at the moment .

Not Monsieur !

n3hima wrote:

You will probably want to manually compile the wireless drivers. Details in http://wiki.eeeuser.com/getting_ubuntu_ … bling_wifi

Yep, you'll need to blacklist the ath5k driver (/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist)

Then you can get the new 'madwifi' driver:

svn co http://svn.madwifi.org/madwifi/branches … l-0.10.5.6
cd madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6
make
sudo make install

reboot and you'll have a working wifi connection.

You'll still need to install the 'eee-osd' package, however to get the Fn-F2 working you'll need to modify the /etc/acpi/eee-wifi-on-off.sh file. With the new 2.6.26 kernel there's a eeepc_laptop module that exposes the eeepc acpi in a different way to the old asus_acpi or eeepc_acpi modules. 

I've edited the file below:

#!/bin/sh

. /usr/share/acpi-support/key-constants

# The sequence here *is* important.
unload_modules() {
   modprobe -r -q ath_pci
   modprobe -r -q ath_rate_sample
   modprobe -r -q ath_hal
   modprobe -r -q wlan_ccmp
   modprobe -r -q wlan_tkip
   modprobe -r -q wlan_wep
   modprobe -r -q wlan_acl
   modprobe -r -q wlan_scan_sta
   modprobe -r -q wlan
}

# At least this one's straightforward.
load_modules() {
   modprobe ath_pci
}

wifi_on() {
   # Force PCI Express Hotplug to reinit
   modprobe -r -q pciehp
   sleep 1
   # pciehp_force may be unnecessary; Xandros did it.
   modprobe pciehp pciehp_force=1
   sleep 1
   # Switch on the hardware
   #
   # echo 1 >/proc/acpi/asus/wlan
   echo 1 >/sys/devices/platform/eeepc/wlan
   sleep 1
   load_modules
   sleep 1
   /etc/init.d/networking restart
}

wifi_off() {
   unload_modules
   # echo 0 >/proc/acpi/asus/wlan
   echo 0 >/sys/devices/platform/eeepc/wlan
}

case $1 in
   on)
      acpi_fakekey $KEY_PROG1
      wifi_on
      ;;
   off)
      acpi_fakekey $KEY_PROG2
      wifi_off
      ;;
   toggle)
      # STAT=`cat /proc/acpi/asus/wlan`
      STAT=`/sys/devices/platform/eeepc/wlan`
      if [ "$STAT" = "1" ];
         then wifi_off;
         else wifi_on;
      fi
      ;;
esac

FYI.....

There's no need for the 40-wire patch, SSD performance is identical to the various patched 2.6.24 kernels.

The microphone doesn't work properly, far too much noise. Because of the significant changes to the patch_realtek module, the 8.04 microphone patch cannot be retrofitted. I'll have a little play when I have some time.

Last edited by damian (2008-07-19 9:23:25 pm)

mkrishnan wrote:

I think I'm going to give the alpha 2 a try also... alpha 2 is what people are installing, yes?

I changed the repositories to Intrepid and updated and upgraded......risky, did it in chunks because of disk space issues.

Umm, you should be warned that this is in no way ready, and is the very early stages of development. If your EEE explodes and bites your head off, you get to keep both bits

Don't use it for actual work, as it is very likely to break.


I tried it in virtualbox, but it kernel panicked before I got a chance to use it.

Last edited by garwaymatt (2008-07-22 9:57:06 am)

adamm wrote:

I totally agree garwaymatt. I just had a look at the ubuntu-intrepid git repository to see what's needed to port my eeepc kernel mods over.

The entire kernel infrastructure that I leveraged under hardy is missing from intrepid (the openvz, xen & rt flavours are gone too). Whether they've all been deprecated or moved to another repository, I cannot tell, but it seriously hinders my own work on the new release.

Adam, they are still there. I'm using these repositories:

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid main universe restricted multiverse
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid-security universe main multiverse restricted
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid-updates universe main multiverse restricted
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid-proposed universe main multiverse restricted
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid-backports universe main multiverse restricted

Damian

damian wrote:

Adam, they are still there. I'm using these repositories:

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid main universe restricted multiverse
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid-security universe main multiverse restricted
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid-updates universe main multiverse restricted
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid-proposed universe main multiverse restricted
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid-backports universe main multiverse restricted

Damian

Specifically I'm looking for the intrepid equivalent code that generated such packages as "linux-image-2.6.24-18-rt", "linux-image-2.6.24-18-xen", "linux-image-2.6.24-18-openvz" in hardy.

Previously, I used git://kernel.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ubuntu-hardy.git/debian/binary-custom.d/ directory to create the eeepc custom flavour by cloning the examples from "rt", "xen" and "openvz".

However, under intrepid's codebase, git://kernel.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ubuntu-intrepid.git/debian/binary-custom.d/ doesn't exist. As a result, "rt", "xen" and "openvz" custom flavours are no where to be found. Even on those repositories you quoted.

Anyway, I think I have a workaround, an am building a linux-image-2.6.26-4-eeepc right now.

However, I only trust this code about as far as I can throw it

I am having trouble getting intrepid to mount my internal sd card reader on my 701.  I have Intrepid installed on an sd card, and if I plug a reader into any usb port on it, it works fine, if I put the sd card right into the sd reader built in, it will load grub from it, but then the kernel doesn't mount it, and I bomb out to a busybox shell after it cannot locate the root.  Any ideas from you linux experts?  If I boot from the reader, and plug in an sd card into the internal slot, intrepid will not mount it. It never sees it in the /dev/disk/by-* just the reader and the internal ssd is found there.  I would prefer it ran from the internal reader so I don't have to plug it into the usb port and have it hanging off the side.  Any suggestions?

Don't know if this helps anyone, but I managed to install intrepid on my eee (701) by following these instructions: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=5430468 In a nutshell: download the boot image for a netinstall of Hardy, make a minimal cli installation, then modify /etc/apt-get/sources.list to intrepid and do a dist-upgrade. I tried with all sorts of alpha and current images on a USB-stick, but none would install to my SDHC. I had to update the initramfs as per these instructions http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=22653&p=1 ; maybe that's what you need to do for intrepid as well to have it boot off the SDHC? It's sad that right now, intrepid has trouble with both wireless and wired ethernet (no drivers included out of the box). However, after installing the madwifi-hal module manually on intrepid, wireless seems much more stable than in Hardy, and the new version of Network Manager appears to be much better. Overall, despite being alpha, intrepid seems quite stable and noticeably faster than hardy. The new artwork is growing on me. I really hope they can add support for the eee out of the box.

pindar wrote:

Don't know if this helps anyone, but I managed to install intrepid on my eee (701) by following these instructions: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=5430468 In a nutshell: download the boot image for a netinstall of Hardy, make a minimal cli installation, then modify /etc/apt-get/sources.list to intrepid and do a dist-upgrade. I tried with all sorts of alpha and current images on a USB-stick, but none would install to my SDHC. I had to update the initramfs as per these instructions http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=22653&p=1 ; maybe that's what you need to do for intrepid as well to have it boot off the SDHC? It's sad that right now, intrepid has trouble with both wireless and wired ethernet (no drivers included out of the box). However, after installing the madwifi-hal module manually on intrepid, wireless seems much more stable than in Hardy, and the new version of Network Manager appears to be much better. Overall, despite being alpha, intrepid seems quite stable and noticeably faster than hardy. The new artwork is growing on me. I really hope they can add support for the eee out of the box.

I have no problem with the wired ethernet in intrepid at all.  I built the madwifi drivers and they worked as well.  However, I still cannot boot from the internal sd reader, I have to put the sd card into a usb reader and plug it into a usb.  If I don't, It tells me it cannot find root and tells me that the uuid doesn't exist.  I tried updating my initramfs, but this had no effect.  So If I want to boot from the internal sd reader, I have to use adams' kernel .  It would be nice to use the newer one.