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sebokie

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Registered: 2008-11-16

Posts: 17

Re: Arch on Asus EEE 901

I've tried knetworkmanager0.7-svn since there was missing dependencies.
But no luck, it sees the network but can't connect.
So it's the same than with wicd.

kugar

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Registered: 2008-12-14

Posts: 5

Re: Arch on Asus EEE 901

I have a problem with netcfg. Dunno if this is eee related but it really drives me nuts.
When i connect to my wpa secured wlan using netcfg everything works nice, but when i want to disconnect using netcfg -a, if just fails.

Any ideas??

I have the same problem, did you find a solution to fix it ?

[EDIT]
I find a solution here : http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/11748

Last edited by kugar (2008-12-14 17:52:58)

ChemBro

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Registered: 2008-10-22

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Re: Arch on Asus EEE 901

Did someone solved the problem with wicd? I can connect to my wlanrouter when it is not using WEP/WPA/WPA2, but with WPA etc....

lejonet

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Registered: 2008-10-27

Posts: 80

Re: Arch on Asus EEE 901

Did someone solved the problem with wicd? I can connect to my wlanrouter when it is not using WEP/WPA/WPA2, but with WPA etc....

Which driver version are you using for the card? Also note that it works best with the wext driver in wicd (not ralink legacy, despite the more obvious reasons that would work)

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ChemBro

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Registered: 2008-10-22

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Re: Arch on Asus EEE 901

Which driver version are you using for the card? Also note that it works best with the wext driver in wicd (not ralink legacy, despite the more obvious reasons that would work)

For my 1000H I tried every driver (wext was/is default) and no one worked. What do you mean by driver version for my card? I only installed zen-eee and acpi-eee (and wicd and wireless_tools). Do I need this acpi-eeewww?

Though it doesn't work since the latest wicd-updates (1.5.x I guess). Wireless works, but noch WPA/WPA2.

lejonet

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Registered: 2008-10-27

Posts: 80

Re: Arch on Asus EEE 901

I dunno what card that is in the 1000H series. What I know is that the driver for atheros (ath5k and ath9k), intel 3945 and 4965 and the ralink rt2860sta are built into the zen3eee kernel. Any other card you'll have to build the driver for yourself
acpi-eeewww I think was just a wrongly written acpi-eee901
On the same note I am having problems with wicd and wireless too, on my 901, but that I think is because I just changed the card to a atheros based card and haven't really looked into the drivers. I might just compile them even tho they are also in the kernel.

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sebokie

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Registered: 2008-11-16

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Re: Arch on Asus EEE 901

The driver for 1000H is rt2860sta, but for some reason it doesn't work well with wicd. I tried to compile it from source from Ralink's website, with the correct parameters (HAS_NATIVE_WPA_SUPPLICANT_SUPPORT=y & HAS_WPA_SUPPLICANT=y in /os/linux/config.mk) but for some reason I can't connect to my wpa ap.
If someone managed to get the driver working with wicd, please let us know.

ChemBro

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Registered: 2008-10-22

Posts: 704

Re: Arch on Asus EEE 901

901 and 1000 are nearly identical and I have a Ralinkcard. I tried to connect to my router today, but now, wicd is unable to connect to it.

Wireless works, but if I use something like "iwconfig ra0 essid <wlanrouter>" (or something like that) and then "dhcpcd ra0", it doesn't connect to the router I said he should. He connects to something, but I don't know what. :-/

Hm.

ra0: dhcpcd 4.0.7 starting
ra0: broadcasting for a lease
ra0: timed out
ra0: trying to use old lease in '/var/lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-ra0.lease'
ra0: checking <an ip-address> is available on attached networks
ra0: using IPv4LL address <an ip-address>

Don't understand this. :-/ And the IP-Address is not correct. And my EEE worked with Wicd and the same kernel, the same networkdriver, but not with the same wicd-version...

big_gie

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Registered: 2005-01-19

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Re: Arch on Asus EEE 901

The driver for 1000H is rt2860sta, but for some reason it doesn't work well with wicd. I tried to compile it from source from Ralink's website, with the correct parameters (HAS_NATIVE_WPA_SUPPLICANT_SUPPORT=y & HAS_WPA_SUPPLICANT=y in /os/linux/config.mk) but for some reason I can't connect to my wpa ap.
If someone managed to get the driver working with wicd, please let us know.

I was able to use wicd with rt2860sta built from source (AUR) on a modified -ARCH stock kernel (mainly disabled almost everything unneeded and built in-kernel what was needed = faster boot).

I think it was v1.8 from AUR (latest at that time, two weeks ago) and kernel 2.6.27.7 or .6...

I returned the machine because the battery was defective, so I can't test anything until I get it back.

EDIT: sorry, I forgot the model It was an 901, not a 1000H.

Last edited by big_gie (2008-12-16 20:34:30)

Blind

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From: Desert mountain

Registered: 2005-02-06

Posts: 386

Re: Arch on Asus EEE 901

Hi,

following
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showpost. … stcount=23
for the Eee 901 I have created a PKGBUILD for 2.6.28-rc8
The nice thing is that not only the eeepc_laptop (incl. patches, see that post) module and whatnot is built in, but also the rt2860 driver that is in the staging repository. It works (i.e. connects to the internet on an unencrypted network) for me, dunno what else works/doesn't work. If anybody is interested, let me know here with a post. I will post all the stuff here.

Cheers,
Blind

kishd

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Registered: 2006-06-14

Posts: 401

Re: Arch on Asus EEE 901

Blind, please post the PKGBUILD. I would love to try it on my 1000h

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Blind

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From: Desert mountain

Registered: 2005-02-06

Posts: 386

Re: Arch on Asus EEE 901

Ok, so here are the necesssary files:
PKGBUILD: http://pastebin.com/m3a0305bb
config: http://pastebin.com/m5c243e78
eee_patch1.patch: http://pastebin.com/m5c95b720
eee_patch2.patch: http://pastebin.com/m2d11956a
eee_patch3.patch: http://pastebin.com/m7881b68b
eee_patch4.patch: http://pastebin.com/m26660bf8
kernel26-eee901.install: http://pastebin.com/m13ae1541
kernel26-eee901.preset: http://pastebin.com/m40fa30f2

Note 1: you probably will have to deal with the config a bit if you use something other than a 901. I dont know.
Note 2: please get the kernel staging driver patch here: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/ … -rc8.patch. I renamed it to rt2860-staging-2.6.28-rc8.patch, dunno why (see PKGBUILD)

Edit:
Note 3: Sorry, I have built this on my eee, so if you build this package on a different machine than your eee, remove "-march=native" from the compile line in the PKGBUILD!!

Let me know if you have any problems. Oh, btw, I included the kernel headers. Might not have been a good thing, but you can easily delete those lines at the top of the PKGBUILD (and the 'provides' line).

Cheers,
Blind

Last edited by Blind (2008-12-17 17:13:25)

D-Locked

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Registered: 2008-08-22

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Re: Arch on Asus EEE 901

... and http://zen-sources.org/ is online again!

kishd

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Registered: 2006-06-14

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Re: Arch on Asus EEE 901

@Blind

Don't know why but I get the following error message when running makepkg

: command not found

==> ERROR: An unknown error has occured. Exiting...

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Blind

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From: Desert mountain

Registered: 2005-02-06

Posts: 386

Re: Arch on Asus EEE 901

Odd error, I have changed the
PKGBUILD: http://pastebin.com/m236641e3
Could this have been the problem? Did it download any sources?

EDIT: it is a line separator thing/ When you click download in pastbin, it is stored with windows line separators. You need to resave all files with unix line separators.

Last edited by Blind (2008-12-17 21:05:49)

kishd

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Registered: 2006-06-14

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Re: Arch on Asus EEE 901

For some reason there were control characters in the PKGBUILD.

sed -i -e 's/[[:cntrl:]]/ /g' PKGBUILD fixed that. Now some of the patches fail. Will try to hunt down the error

[EDIT] Seems that all the eee patches fail. Perhaps they only applied cleanly on rc8-git2 ?

Last edited by kishd (2008-12-18 04:30:00)

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Blind

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From: Desert mountain

Registered: 2005-02-06

Posts: 386

Re: Arch on Asus EEE 901

kishd, the same line separator problem is true for the patches. sorry...this is a pastebin problem
I didn't know about that. the patches apply clean here.
regards,
Blind

kugar

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Registered: 2008-12-14

Posts: 5

Re: Arch on Asus EEE 901

Il have 2 problems on my eeepc 901 when I'm using gnome.

First, I think that it is due to gnome power manager, when I don't use my pc during several time or on LID close, it powers off the screen. And when I want to use again my eeepc, the display never goes back. I just have a black screen.

Second, my SDHC card is mounted with gnome automount but with root owner and group. I don't find how to change that. I want to user gnome automount so I don't want to define an entry in my fstab for that.

Does someone have a solution for my problems ?

hokum83

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From: Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia

Registered: 2008-09-25

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Re: Arch on Asus EEE 901

[EDIT] Seems that all the eee patches fail. Perhaps they only applied cleanly on rc8-git2 ?

I have the same problem with patches

Blind

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From: Desert mountain

Registered: 2005-02-06

Posts: 386

Re: Arch on Asus EEE 901

Ok, I will be updating and posting it in a different way.
Sorry about your porblems. Try resaving with UNIX line separators again...that worked for me.
Blind

tehabe

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Registered: 2008-10-14

Posts: 82

Re: Arch on Asus EEE 901

The current zen3eee kernel is kinda incompatible to the current udev in testing. With the stock kernel this works perfectly.

Look my bug report: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12177

BTW I think the 1.8 version of the rt2860 is working better than the "optimized" version 1.7.1.1 or something.

tung

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Registered: 2008-08-22

Posts: 29

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Re: Arch on Asus EEE 901

First, I think that it is due to gnome power manager, when I don't use my pc during several time or on LID close, it powers off the screen. And when I want to use again my eeepc, the display never goes back. I just have a black screen.

Try going to System -> Preferences -> Power Management and unchecking dim display while idle.

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kugar

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Registered: 2008-12-14

Posts: 5

Re: Arch on Asus EEE 901

Try going to System -> Preferences -> Power Management and unchecking dim display while idle.

I've already done that. The option that causes problems is dim after an idle time (between 11mn and "never"). But put it to disable or never happen is not a solution. I would like to have that feature.

qdiesel

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Registered: 2008-05-19

Posts: 61

Re: Arch on Asus EEE 901

I've rebuilt robertek's kernel with uvesafb as module to make 1024x600 framebuffer work as described here.
It works, but my eee refuses to wake up properly. It responds but the screen is screwed completely.
I've tried the old uswsusp method. It works just fine without X but freezes otherwise.

lovechii

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Registered: 2008-12-26

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Re: Arch on Asus EEE 901

Hello,

I write in english very bad, sorry for this.

I have got one Asus Eee PC 901. Eee has Arch Linux with precompiled customized zen-eee901 kernel.
I have the last version of Xorg and the configuration of de wiki.

And I have a problem with Xorg. If I use the out VGA only, the Xorg has a error.

(EE) intel(0): underrun on pipe A!

Any solution for this problem ?

Last edited by lovechii (2008-12-26 20:57:34)