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As I have mentioned in some other posts, recently I have downloaded the 1000H iso provided by Ectoplasm and Ottothecow as per this thread, and build it on a 4G SDHC with the Boot Xandros from USB for Dummies method I have posted in this thread. Everything works fine except networking.
After googling for a while tonight, I have found the solution in this Chinese blog Eee PC Hacking Blog: Install EeePC 901 iso to 900. For those who are interested, here are the instructions:
[NB. You have to do all these as "root"]
1) Download the deb packages atheros-swan-modules-2.6.21.4-eeepc_20080220-2_i386.deb and atl2-modules-2.6.21.4-eeepc_1.0.40.4-2_i386.deb from Asus update website.
2) Install them with dpkg:
dpkg -i atheros-swan-modules-2.6.21.4-eeepc_20080220-2_i386.deb dpkg -i atl2-modules-2.6.21.4-eeepc_1.0.40.4-2_i386.deb
3) Edit these 3 files, replace all ra0 with ath0:
/usr/sbin/services.sh
/usr/sbin/wlan_on_boot.sh
/etc/alternatives/x-session-manager
4) Replace /etc/acpi/wlan.sh with the one in your original 4G or you can download the one edited by the blogger here.
5) edit /etc/modules, replace atl1e with atl2 and rt2860sta with ath_pci. Then run depmod to update module dependencies:
depmod -a 2.6.21.4-eeepc
6) Now you can reboot and run [Settings] > [Diagnostic Tools] > [System Test] > [Network test] to test your LAN and WiFi. It will prompt you to create network settings.
[NB. The blogger also mentioned problem with WPA (due to conflict between new version of xandros-wpa-supplicant and atheros wireless card) and the need to downgrade xandros-wpa-supplicant to the old version of 900 (or probably the version for 701), and use of another modified wlan.sh. But since I do not have a WPA wireless network to test it. I cannot confirm on this.]
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Thank you for posting this. I had been looking for something like this for some time now.
One question, if I don't want to install it to run off of a USB drive, will this procedure allow me to install on the internal 160GB drive as well?
Cheers!
KC
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kckingc wrote:
One question, if I don't want to install it to run off of a USB drive, will this procedure allow me to install on the internal 160GB drive as well?
These steps work equally on EeePC Linux installed in USB drive or SSD.
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