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EDIT: INSTALLER IS HERE - http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?pid=47421#p47421
Hello there guys,
As some of you may know, a group of us have been working on a Debian installer specifically for the EeePC, which includes the ethernet driver and installs Testing "Lenny" by default.
It is nearly ready to use, all we have to do is include a few scripts to install the ethernet driver by default.
Then we won't have to use the Xandros kernel to install Debian at all! All rejoice.
Last edited by Gekko (2007-12-11 5:19:26 am)
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Good to hear, it's my goal to get Debain on my eee. I 'settled' for Ubuntu(for the present) to get away from the Xandros KDE desktop. I'm just a hobbiest(not a Unix admin) but am excited to learn. 
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You may want to look at http://eee-ubuntu-support.googlecode.com/. maybe part of it can be reused for debian.
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I've been looking into that actually, and that's part of the plans to be implemented. I hope to have the atl2 drivers preinstaller script done in a few minutes.
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If there's anything I can do to help let me know, I just finished off something similar for Ubuntu, and have some source .debs for atl2 / patched madwifi sitting around.
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Alright, the installer is complete.
By default, it will install Debian Lenny, which is the testing repository. This means that if there is an error in the repositories Debian Lenny may not always be installable. You have been warned, but today it is absolutely fine 
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I have added a script to the installer that should install the ethernet drivers to your install by default. Please reports any issues you find with that.
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One problem you may come across is the ethernet not becoming active. This is a bug with the chipset for when you install. To fix this, temporarily enable PXE/netboot in the BIOS. You may not come across this problem, but you can enable it and disable it at any time without problem. The problem will be gone as soon as you have installed so you may disable PXE in the BIOS after that.
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There is no wifi included in this installer, but it can be installed after you have completed the install with ethernet quite simply. (Instructions are similar to that of http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/Distro/Debian/MadWifi , and it's a good read either way.)
1) Download this file: [link]
2) (as root) aptitude install build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r) wireless-tools module-assistant
3) dpkg -i /path/to/madwifi-source_0.9.3.3+r2756.20071018-1_all.deb
4) m-a a-i madwifi
Optionally, if you want to use WPA or another form of encryption other than WEP, you need to 'aptitude install wpasupplicant' and configure it. More information about that can be found on our wiki: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC
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To install Debian using this image, you need a usb stick or an SD card. Backup everything off it because it will be completely formatted! Change /path/to to reflect where you have saved sid-usb.img.gz.
1) gunzip /path/to/sid-usb.img.gz
2) As root, dd if=/path/to/sid-usb.img of=/dev/sdX, where sdX is your device. SD cards in the EeePC are always sdb, USBs are usually sdc.
3) reboot the EeePC with the card/usb and ethernet cable plugged in
To reuse your USB stick or SD card, repartition it with your favourite partitioner then use a mkfs tool to give it a filesystem. For more information, google it 
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There is an issue surrounding shutting down. The system halts, but the fan continues to run and the wifi light stays on. The reason is the sound module doesn't close correctly, but there is a fix!
1) (as root) aptitude install acpi-suppport
2) Edit /etc/default/acpi-support with your favourite text editor (or nano) and add snd_hda_intel to the MODULES="" line.
Then it will poweroff correctly!
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I don't think I've missed anything, but if I have, let me know. I will update the wiki with this information later.
Now, the link you've all been waiting for: http://bbqsrc.net/eeepc/debian/sid-usb.img.gz
Good luck, and visit us on OFTC's IRC network: irc://irc.oftc.net/debian-eeepc. I'm Gekz .
Last edited by Gekko (2007-12-11 6:29:55 am)
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Hi
I have already done my own thing, (Minimum Deb install) but I will try your sid-usb.img on an external drive soon.
I am certain that Debian + Xcfe4 is a very good way to go! It's fast and light weight, at the moment I am using 1.4GB of the SSD with the following installed setup.:-
I am using 2.6.22-3, installed starting from the Kibobo usb img, with xcfe4 as a Wm and desktop. This is the first time I have played with Xfce4, it is extremely nice, lots of ways to set it up, nice set of applets, it looks really "smart".
I have loaded all the Xfce4 goodies, including the Xfce4 media player.
I have d/ld, compiled and installed (no Deb available), the Xfce4 photo viewer Ristretto, a very good app.
I have all my music and photos stored on a mini-ITX FreeNAS server, On the eeepc, I can nfs mount the NAS disk and play my music over the WIFI link, and watch a slide show of my photos using the Ristretto photo app simultaneously.
Iceweasel (modified Mozilla web browser)
Abiword for word processing
Synaptic package manger
and Gramps for my Genealogy research
I have installed Splashy ( boot up splash screen), I haven't go it working on shutdown yet, Splashy gets killed as soon as the shutdown starts.
Suspend works, also wired and wireless comms.
I have yet to finish setting up the function keys. F1, F3 F4 work OK I have to look at the rest, but I don't need to use them so there is no urgency.
I also have to clean a load of cruft out. There are lots of libs kicking around I may be able to lose.
I haven't yet installed an email client. I am a bit worried about losing sync with my emails on my desktop machine. I will have to look for a lightweight email sync application. (Or change my email accounts to IMAP and just read them on the IMAP server on the eeePC, and then d/l them on my desktop. But this still doesn't help to sync up my replies and forwards I might do on the eeepc. Any ideas??
One of the things that has made using the eeepc better for me is that I have adjusted the keyboard repeat rate under Xce4 settings manger. I was getting lots of repeats that were buggering up my command syntax, I have made the keys less responsive and it's a whole lot better.
All in all I am having a fun time!
regards
Patrick
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superpat wrote:
I haven't yet installed an email client. I am a bit worried about losing sync with my emails on my desktop machine. I will have to look for a lightweight email sync application. (Or change my email accounts to IMAP and just read them on the IMAP server on the eeePC, and then d/l them on my desktop. But this still doesn't help to sync up my replies and forwards I might do on the eeepc. Any ideas??
Off-topic, but yes, IMAP is what you want. I have no trouble keeping tracks of replies and forwards; the
flags are updated on the messages in the server (i.e. marked as forwarded or replied). Most clients can also keep a copy of outgoing messages on the imap server. FWIW, I use an Emacs mailreader
called Wanderlust. You have to like emacs, but if so, Wanderlust is great. It supports offline operation very slickly, so that when I reconnect to the net, all of the queued deletes, forwards, etc... are done. It is in debian so you can try it out if you like.
PS, to try to be more on topic, deborphan might help you clean up libs. Although aptitude should be nearly as good.
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the deb with sources for the madwifi driver seems to be missing from the link given, does anyone have an alternate location or other alternative?
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gekko wrote:
One problem you may come across is the ethernet not becoming active. This is a bug with the chipset for when you install. To fix this, temporarily enable PXE/netboot in the BIOS. You may not come across this problem, but you can enable it and disable it at any time without problem. The problem will be gone as soon as you have installed so you may disable PXE in the BIOS after that.
I forgot to enablePXE in the BIOS(netinst worked fine, however) before installation, wired ethernet not working post-install. I've enabled PXE now, but it looks like I'll have to load the pkgs by hand. Do I need to pull them off the USB installer image, or are they there, just not active?
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Ah, the silance is deafening, but not loud enough to drown out the soft whisper of "It is in the manual". So, I went to the wiki and navigated a link to the answer to the information that I seek:
" One thing to watch out for is the current version of the installer is accidentally missing atl2, so obtain the latest atl2-source package from sid (yes, this works fine on lenny,) and also the kernel-headers package for 2.6.22-3-686, copy them to the Eee (a USB key helps, here,) install them with dpkg -i and then build & install atl2 with:
m-a auto-install atl2 "
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still problems with wireless...
I followed all installation steps, everything went good. I'm running gnome, with no swap and all the others SDD preventions.
I'm having absolutely no problems with leds and fans, even the command fn+F2 switch the wireless blue led on/off, but no way of wireless.
I sourced:
deb ftp://ftp.it.debian.org/debian lenny main contrib non-free
deb-src ftp://ftp.it.debian.org/debian lenny main contrib non-free
and got madwifi-source & tools. Then I followed the instructions of the wiki, but it didn't work.
Any suggestion?
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thats like saying my car wont start, whats wrong with it? Provide some more information. Follow these questions in order, where did you get stuck?
Did the patching of the source code work?
Did it actually compile?
Have you loaded the module?
Did you use wlanconfig to create the device?
Did you edit /etc/network/interfaces to include the NIC?
Did you start the machine up with the wireless on?
have you checked the output of dmesg?
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thanks man chucked the files from ur image in my network boot folder and got ethernet workin in the installer =]
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>Did the patching of the source code work?
I did:
/usr/src/modules/madwifi/patches# ./install.sh /usr/src/linux
the result:
Copying top-level files
Copying source files
Copying makefiles
Copying Atheros HAL files
Patching the build system
Done
>Did it actually compile?
it seems ok, no errors report
> Have you loaded the module?
modprobe ath_pci
with no output...
>Did you use wlanconfig to create the device?
my eeePc is my first notebook, so i'am no-wireless experienced... how to use wlanconfig?
however the problem seems to appear in dmesg.
>Did you edit /etc/network/interfaces to include the NIC?
in /etc/network/interfaces i wrote:
auto ath0
iface ath0 inet dhcp
pre-up ifconfig ath0 up
pre-up iwconfig ath0 essid linksys
> Did you start the machine up with the wireless on?
yes, i guess, the blu light is on...
> have you checked the output of dmesg?
Atheros(R) L2 Ethernet Network Driver - version 1.0.40.3
Copyright (c) 2007 Atheros Corporation.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:00.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:03:00.0 to 64
ath_hal: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel.
ath_hal: 0.9.18.0 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413)
wlan: 0.8.4.2 (0.9.3.2)
ath_pci: 0.9.4.5 (0.9.3.2)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:01:00.0 to 64
wifi%d: unable to attach hardware: 'Hardware revision not supported' (HAL status 13)
ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:01:00.0 disabled
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nicola wrote:
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wifi%d: unable to attach hardware: 'Hardware revision not supported' (HAL status 13)
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That says to me the patch has not been applied or the wrong patch has been applied.
Follow the madwifi instructions on: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/HowTo/Install and see if you can get rid of that line.
After that it should just be network configuration.
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OK!
so, I had too many input... and the patch was wrong.
Now everything works, learning from Lao Tzu:
And when you're doing nothing yourself, there's nothing you don't do.
Thank you!
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hey using this, compiled asus_acpi and i cant get suspend to work....how should i go about this
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HOW TO LOAD YOU NIC/Eth0 adapter for your eeepc in debian
When you first get into the eeepc-debian install you’ll notice your NIC / Ethernet is not working.
That’s because you haven’t loaded the driver yet. It will be part of the install eventually but for the time
being you will need to do some legwork. All blue commands are literal command prompt commands
First you need to be root
su
enter in your password, once you are root carry on.
go to http://packages.debian.org/lenny/i386/a … 6/download on another pc,get the old atl2 module and copy it to a flash drive or SD
card to transport it to your eeepc.
put the flashdrive into your eeepc , go to a terminal and to the directory
in which your .deb file was saved.
dpkg -i atl2-modules-2.6.22-3-686_2.6.22+1.0.40.4-9_i386.deb
modprobe atl2
dhclient
now you've installed the old atl2 module, loaded it and refreshed your ip address.
Your eeepc now has access to the internet.
now you need the new one, but first we need a little help.
apt-get install module-assistant
m-a auto-install atl2
modprobe atl2
For good measure this reload the atl2 driver.
Now you can proceed with the rest of this tutorial.
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I don't know if you guys get thanked enough, but I'm completely new to Linux (due to purchase of Eee PC); just figured out this a.m. I would prefer debian for more control of this little pc, and want to thank everyone for making that possible!!!
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I just want to put in my thanks Geeko et al for this!
I have trid a number of the distro's on the Wiki pages, and this one fits my needs/wants best.
Good work all concerned with it.
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hey i still occasionally get the problem with the power light staying on aswell as the fan(sometimes). I did what you recommended by adding the module but still no luck. Any ideas
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hi, i tried the method mentioned at http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/HowTo/Install and came across this thread on the wiki ... i have a problem installing GRUB, it tells me something like "... unable to copy package GRUB to /target/ ..." and fails the installation of my Bootloader (its the same for Grub2 and LILO)!
any suggestions ...?
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I have the same problem!
Can somebody help us?
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That makes three of us..
Bye, Michael
Last edited by panik (2008-02-16 3:13:42 pm)
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