Asus eee PC running Wolvix: a success story

[annda]

i thought i should share my experiences because i believe Wolvix is the perfect distribution for the tiny laptop. so this is how i dealt with the problems i encountered:  1. networking---------------
after booting the liveCD via external CD drive i had no network connections. but i knew that linux drivers for the hardware existed since the eee runs Xandros. so i installed to an SD card first. that way i could stick the card into another linux machine and chroot into the system to easily install any missing packages. i didn't know how many dependencies i would have to deal with so that seemed the safest way to go. it turned out i was too scared - i believe i needed only gcc, binutils and make to compile the Atl2 Ethernet driver from the original source: http://people.redhat.com/csnook/  those installation instructions helped me a lot:  makesudo cp ./atl2.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/netsudo depmod -asudo modprobe atl2dmesgifconfig -a  source: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=696835&page=2  wolvix froze on me numerous times when i tried to install windows wireless drivers via System > Windows Wireless Drivers (integrated ndiswrapper), so i used another guide to load the drivers included on the ASUS driver DVD: http://www.eeeguides.com/2007/11/get-wifi-working-in-different-linux.html   now the eee has wired and wireless internet.
2. display-----------
i wasn't able to get the right screen resolution from within Wolvix, but the eee sports an Intel video chipset with Linux support (or see above). this is how i resolved the problem: http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=15708  3. Flash storage-------------------
since my eee uses only flash drives, i had to modify /etc/fstab and include noatime for the SD card. Wolvix has done this for the SSD already.

[oithona]

cool - maybe you could write a full How-To for the wiki? I think it would be useful.

[xpt]

Congratulation!!!

I saw people at the slax forum having problem even booting up slax from Asus eee PC...

Real achievement!!!

[Wolfwood]

cool - maybe you could write a full How-To for the wiki? I think it would be useful.

I second this suggestion! I see Wolvix (Hunter) as THE choice for my future Asus Eee900 and any How-To would make my life _so_ much easier!

Even better, of course, if Wolvix supported Eee right from the boot-up... I think Mandriva already does...

[annda]

next week i'll post any tips i have on the wolvix wiki. right now i'm struggling with the touchpad, trying to get it to scroll...

UPDATE: the first version of the guide is online:
http://wiki.wolvix.org/eeePC

[xpt]

. . . the first version of the guide is online. . .

Super! Thanks a lot for sharing.

I think Wolvix is still ahead of other similar distros. Just wishing the best gets even better (hint new version?). :-)

[xpt]

FYI,

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Newsgroups: gmane.linux.distributions.grml.user
Subject: sound on eeepc works
Date: 13 Mar 2008

If i a remove the snd-hda-intel module and load it as follows

modprobe snd-hda-intel model=3stack-dig

the sound on the eeepc works, and if i do

echo sftsyn >/proc/speakup/synth_name

and swspeak the softwarespeak will work.

Regards.

Dietmar
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