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Very nice slim distro. I downloaded the iso, used unetbootin to burn it to a flash stick. It booted in about 20 seconds from the flash stick.
You need to do the following to get wireless to work.
Download these 2 files from http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis … x/tce.html
madwifi_hal.tcem
wireless_tools.tcel
put them on some other flash stick, the ssd, or sd card.
Boot TCL.
click on the panel icon and click on mount tool. Mount the media that the 2 files are on.
Click on the apps icon. Select file - local. Then navigate (you'll probably have to type the path manually as the autocomplete only goes so far) to the directory where the 2 files are and install them - madwifi first.
Then open a terminal (use the Aterm icon) and type
sudo modprobe ath_pci
sudo iwconfig ath0 essid any
sudo udhcpc -i ath0
Now you can click on the apps icon and install packages from the TCE and TCZ repositories.
Firefox 3 is called minefield, for some reason. To get it working with flash install (all from TCE):
1. minefield
2. OSS
then right click on the desktop - select apps-OOS-Sound ON
open minefield and close it again twice (might not need this step)
then from TCE install getflash9
then right click on the desktop select: apps-getflash9
this downloads quite a lot, but then open minefield and enjoy websites like youtube and anything else with flash, which is pretty much everything on the intanet these days.
If tcl is a distro taking about 20 megs and booting in 20 seconds and you can then use firefox, I am a very happy eee user!!!
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kerpob wrote:
-Firefox 3 is called minefield, for some reason
Minefield is the pre-release of the Firefox to come, it's a blasting fast version,
http://www.techdreams.org/browsers/fire … 8-20081023
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/minefield/
But not all add-ons are available yet; so you can cheat and enable the add-ons for previous versions of Firefox in going there: http://www.oxymoronical.com/web/firefox/nightly
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oupsemma wrote:
kerpob wrote:
-Firefox 3 is called minefield, for some reason
Minefield is the pre-release of the Firefox to come, it's a blasting fast version,
http://www.techdreams.org/browsers/fire … 8-20081023
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/minefield/
But not all add-ons are available yet; so you can cheat and enable the add-ons for previous versions of Firefox in going there: http://www.oxymoronical.com/web/firefox/nightly
The ones I use are (foxmarks and adblock plus).
So far very impressed with TCL. I have firefox/minefield with flash customised how I like it & have written my very first ever script for activating the wireless.
I now have it on the sdd - boot time with my extra apps is now almost 30 seconds, mostly due to firefox. Still brilliant - and it even has a cairo-dock eye candy app chooser.
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Update - I'm still using this distro and loving it. My desktop looks like the mac with the grass & the same zooming icon thingy at the bottom - plus conky stats in the top-right corner!
Going to compile an eee friendly kernel for this one.
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kerpob wrote:
Update - I'm still using this distro and loving it. My desktop looks like the mac with the grass & the same zooming icon thingy at the bottom - plus conky stats in the top-right corner!
Going to compile an eee friendly kernel for this one.
Would be very interested in the kernel if you do this - do let us know progress please.
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rayburn wrote:
kerpob wrote:
Update - I'm still using this distro and loving it. My desktop looks like the mac with the grass & the same zooming icon thingy at the bottom - plus conky stats in the top-right corner!
Going to compile an eee friendly kernel for this one.Would be very interested in the kernel if you do this - do let us know progress please.
Full success today after 4 kernel compile attempts.
I now have a linux distro that boots to a workable desktop in 23 seconds, with kernel 2.6.28.6
Had to write a script (my first ever!) to activate wireless on startup:
ifconfig wlan0 up
iwconfig wlan0 essid any
udhcpc -i wlan0
Apps include:
Minefield (firefox) with flash
rox - my favourite file manager
nano - a good text editor
To get:
Some sort of mp3/video player
open office or abiword
Whole distro takes up 30 meg or so.
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I've not been having much luck with the wireless, open or WPA.
I got the internal network card to work by downloading compiletc.tce and compiling the atl2 driver, followed up by these commands:
insmod atl2.ko
depmod
ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.78 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255 up
echo nameserver 192.168.1.254 > /etc/resolv.conf
route add default gw 192.168.1.254
78 being the Eee, 254 being the router/dns server.
Next step, I need to figure out how to inject it so it's permanently in there and on at boot up... and of course, getting wifi working would be nice!
You can download my atl2.ko from: http://www.wtfcomrade.com/eee/atl2.ko
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I saw your first thread about TCL and i really liked it! Unfortunatly i have the 701 SD and im a compleat nounce at linux. You wouldn't happen to be able to put the Wifi (rl8180) drivers in your kernal or as a seperate thing for us SD users? Despite having XP im detirmined to use Linux on my SD card. Puppy, TCL or DSL are looking like the most likely and Puppy doesn't like my internet. 
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KneeOn wrote:
I saw your first thread about TCL and i really liked it! Unfortunatly i have the 701 SD and im a compleat nounce at linux. You wouldn't happen to be able to put the Wifi (rl8180) drivers in your kernal or as a seperate thing for us SD users? Despite having XP im detirmined to use Linux on my SD card. Puppy, TCL or DSL are looking like the most likely and Puppy doesn't like my internet.
Tinycore is now up to version 2.0, and has Kernel 2.6.29, which probably has these drivers.
However, as it is a minimal distro and you are supposed to install just what you want, wireless tools is one of the things you need to install!
This means either plug the eee directly into the modem, or else copy across the extensions required. You will need two extensions from http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis … ce_2x.html
wireless tools
wireless support for 2.6.29.1
(to download, edit the url for the info link. e.g. change
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis … .tcem.info
to
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis … ycore.tcem
)
You can then install these locally without internet access (nb - as tinycore boots to ram, you will need to use the mount tool in the apps pannel to mount the local drive).
To get wireless then working find out what your wireless is called with
sudo ifconfig -a
mine is called wlan0, but yours might be ra0 or something.
Get it up:
sudo ifconfig wlan0 up
I also assign mine to link to any access point:
sudo iwconfig wlan0 essid any
then you need to go into the network thing in the apps box. Should be obvious enough there.
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Thanks, I will look at downloading this later on, going to give puppy one last almighty push. But im not holding much in hope. So if i follow these (i hope easy) instructions, i should be online with my 701SD... at least thats the plan! Damn Asus for giving the SD such spazzy drivers. >..<
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What's the elonex one t+ like? I very nearly bought one, but got a refund when it was late (they sent it anyway, so I returned it again - and then they refunded me again!
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Has anyone been able to get wifi/wireless to work on a 1000he with the ath9k driver?
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Like kerpob I have become a convert to Tiny Core Linux. I run it from an SDHC card, but it can also be installed to sda1 or sdb1 and happily coexist with Xandros.
On my Eee 900 it actually boots faster than Xandros. I decided the relevant measurement was from button push to being able to surf the web with a loaded browser and an acquired wifi signal. Xandros boots to a usable desktop in 28 seconds, but takes another 27 seconds to acquire wifi and load Firefox--so 55 seconds total. Tiny Core achieves all that in about 35 seconds (from sda1/sdb1).
At the moment I don't have suspend/resume working for Tiny Core, but I have located the Xandros script and am hopeful that I can modify it for TC.
Last edited by OldAdamUser2 (2009-10-25 6:54:18 pm)
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